System and method of providing a game
AssigneeBQ Media Lab Pty Ltd
InventorsBenjamin Christopher Lloyd, Dipnarayan Guha
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a system and a method of providing a game over a peer to peer network. The disclosure provides a method of providing a game over a peer to peer (P2P) game network, wherein the P2P game network comprises a plurality of user devices as the nodes of the network. The P2P game network is arranged to generate or process game data on a subset of the user devices of the game network in response to a user device not being a member of the subset user devices, generating a game data request to play a game.
Claims38
A method of providing a game over a peer to peer (P2P) game network, wherein the P2P game network comprises a plurality of user devices as nodes of the network, said P2P game network performing a method comprising:
- before receiving a game request from a first user device of the P2P game network to play a game, generating a first set of game data on the first user device based on one or more sensor outputs of one or more sensors of the first user device;
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- generating or processing the first set of game data on a subset of the plurality of user devices of the game network, in response to the first user device, not being a member of the subset of the plurality of user devices, generating the game request to play the game.
A method of playing a game on a first user device, the method comprising the steps of:
- before receiving a game request from a first user device of a peer to peer (P2P) game network, generating a first set of game data on the first user device based on one or more sensor outputs of one or more sensors of the first user device;
- generating the game request on the first user device, wherein the game request is indicative of a request for game data,
- providing the game request to a game network, wherein the first user device is part of the game network, said game network comprises a plurality of user devices,
- generating or processing the first set of game data on the plurality of user devices of the game network responsive to the game request;
- receiving requested game data on the first user device.
A method of providing a game over a peer to peer (P2P) game network, wherein the P2P game network comprises a plurality of user devices as nodes of the network, said P2P game network performing a method comprising:
- generating game data required by the plurality of user devices of the P2P game network to play a game, wherein generating the game data comprises:
- analyzing a game request received to determine a first set of game data already generated by a first user device from the plurality of us devices and a second set of game data required for completion of the game, and
- wherein the second set of game data required on the P2P network is generated based on the game request by performing a series of combinatorial functions on the first set of game data based on the game request.
A method of playing a game on a first user device, the user device being a node of a P2P game network comprising a plurality of user devices, the method comprising:
- on the first user device:
- before receiving a game request on the first user device of the P2P game network to play a game, generating a first set of game data on the first user device based on one or more sensor outputs of one or more sensors of the first user device;
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- generating the game request, wherein the game request comprises a request for game data,
- providing the game request to a subset of the plurality of user devices of the P2P game network,
- on the game network:
- receiving the game request,
- processing the game request received to decide additional game data required by the game request,
- generating or processing the first set of game data on a subset of the plurality of user devices, and
- providing the game data to the user device that the game data and/or to a server,
- on the first user device,
- generating and displaying a game result.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.