US 2003/0177187 · Filed 2003-02-20
Computing grid for massively multi-player online games and other multi-user immersive persistent-state and session-based applications
A method of managing a collaborative process includes defining a plurality of locales on a plurality of servers, creating a plurality of objects corresponding to players in the plurality of locales, and mediating object state of the objects between the locales in a seamless manner so that the locales form a seamless world.
Patent details
- Publication number
- US 2003/0177187
- Filing date
- 2003-02-20
- Grant date
- Application — not yet granted
- Assignee
- Butterfly.Net. Inc.
- Inventor(s)
- LEVINE DAVID A., MINTON GABRIEL D., WIRT MARK C., WHITEBOOK BARRY A.
- CPC class
- A63F13/10
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