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US 2014/0213369 A1Published application
Player-Side Cache
AssigneeRoblox Corporation
InventorsKevin Kaichuan He, Semen Kozlov
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Abstract
A method includes steps of opening a link between a player's appliance and a network-connected server providing games, selecting a game to play by the player through an interface provided to the player's appliance by the server, transmitting virtual world data by the server to the player's appliance, along with a version identification, storing the virtual world data and associated version identification in a cache at the player's appliance, playing the game by the player using the player's appliance, and suspending play of the game by the player.
Claims12
A method, comprising:
- opening a link between a player's appliance and a network-connected server providing games;
- selecting a game to play by the player through an interface provided to the player's appliance by the server;
- transmitting virtual world data by the server to the player's appliance, along with a version identification;
- storing the virtual world data and associated version identification in a cache at the player's appliance;
- playing the game by the player using the player's appliance;
- and
- suspending play of the game by the player.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a network-connected server providing games;
- software executing on a processor at the server from a non-transitory medium, the software providing:
- opening a link between the server and a player's appliance;
- configuring the player's appliance to operate with a cache for storing virtual world data and a version identification for the data;
- enabling the player to select a game to play through an interface provided to the player's appliance by the server;
- transmitting the virtual world data for the selected game by the server to the player's appliance, along with the version identification;
- and
- storing the virtual world data and associated version identification in the cache at the player's appliance, enabling the player to play the selected game.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.