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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2016
Applicant:
Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kevin Robert Valk, Nijmegen, NL;
Robert Leyland, Novato, CA (US);
Assignee:
Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/69 (2014.01); A63F 13/73 (2014.01); A63F 13/24 (2014.01); A63F 13/23 (2014.01); A63F 13/95 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/73 (2014.09); A63F 13/23 (2014.09); A63F 13/24 (2014.09); A63F 13/69 (2014.09); A63F 13/95 (2014.09);
Abstract
A toy for use with respect to videogame play may include information of a game character and/or game object, with the toy including a digital signature which a game device may check to determine that the toy is a genuine toy. In various embodiments security keys may be required to read information of the toy, and the security keys may be generated by a peripheral device of a videogame system. In some embodiments some of the information may be stored on the toy in encrypted form.