Patents by Inventor Russell G. Braun
Russell G. Braun has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7417600Abstract: A data processing system and method in which, by way of example, a memory system is coupled to a video game program processing system. The video game program processing system has a predetermined address space for executing programs stored in a program memory portion of the memory system. The contents of a plurality of storage locations determine a configuration of the memory system depending on which of a plurality of different game programs is to be executed by the video game program processing system.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Darren C. Smith, Kenji Nishizawa, David J. McCarten, Ramin Ravanpey, Russell G. Braun
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Patent number: 7068239Abstract: A data processing system and method in which, by way of example, a memory system is coupled to a video game program processing system. The video game program processing system has a predetermined address space for executing programs stored in a program memory portion of the memory system. The contents of a plurality of storage locations determine a configuration of the memory system depending on which of a plurality of different game programs is to be executed by the video game program processing system.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2004Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Darren C. Smith, Kenji Nishizawa, David J. McCarten, Ramin Ravanpey, Russell G. Braun
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Publication number: 20040237119Abstract: A data processing system and method in which, by way of example, a memory system is coupled to a video game program processing system. The video game program processing system has a predetermined address space for executing programs stored in a program memory portion of the memory system. The contents of a plurality of storage locations determine a configuration of the memory system depending on which of a plurality of different game programs is to be executed by the video game program processing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Darren C. Smith, Kenji Nishizawa, David J. McCarten, Ramin Ravanpey, Russell G. Braun
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Patent number: 6762733Abstract: A video game/communications system is disclosed which permits guest room guests to actively participate in video game play or to use other data processing/communication services. A multi-tasking master host computer stores video games and other application programs on its hard disk, downloads programs to an array of game playing engines in response to guest selections.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2001Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Nintendo Co. Ltd.Inventors: Darren C. Smith, Kenji Nishizawa, David J. McCarten, Ramin Ravanpey, Russell G. Braun
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Publication number: 20020054016Abstract: A video game/communication system is disclosed which permits guest room guests to actively participate in video game play or to use other data processing/communication services. A multi-tasking master host computer stores video games and other application programs on its hard disk, downloads programs to an array of SNES game playing engines in response to guest selections. Each guest room guest room includes a terminal device which is coupled to the guest's color television and to a game controller. By pressing a game controller menu key, the guest room guest initiates the downloading of applications software by the host computer to the array of SNES engines located within the guest room. A dowmloaded applications program generate a display menu which appears on the guest's television.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2001Publication date: May 9, 2002Applicant: Nintendo Co. Ltd.Inventors: Darren C. Smith, Kenji Nishizawa, David J. McCarten, Ramin Ravanpey, Russell G. Braun
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Patent number: 6154186Abstract: An electronic entertainment and communications system permits users to actively participate in video game play or to use other data processing/communication services. In a guest room based entertainment system or in a passenger based entertainment system, each guest or passenger is associated with a terminal device including a display and a controller. An array of video graphics processing systems is provided where the number of video graphics processing systems in the array is less than the number of guest or passenger terminals. Each video graphics processing system includes a video graphics program executing processor, which processes information generated during an interactive video graphics display session, and a memory system storing a video graphics program. Each video graphics processing system in the array is assignable to any of the guest or passenger terminals.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1998Date of Patent: November 28, 2000Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Darren C. Smith, Kenji Nishizawa, David J. McCarten, Ramin Ravanpey, Russell G. Braun
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Patent number: 6147663Abstract: A video game/communications system permits users to actively participate in video game play or to use other data processing/communication services. A master host computer stores video games and other application programs. Those programs are provided to an array of video graphic processing systems in response to user selections from a user terminal. Each user terminal device is coupled to a display and to a game controller. Each video graphics processing system includes (1) a memory system for storing a video graphics program and (2) a processor that executes the video graphics program and receives information generated during an interactive video graphics display session. A halt controller halts the video graphics program being executed in the video graphics processor at a first point in a video graphics program where a first command is received. In response thereafter to a second command, the halt controller resumes execution of the video graphics program at the first point.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1999Date of Patent: November 14, 2000Assignee: Nintendo of America, Inc.Inventors: Darren C. Smith, Kenji Nishizawa, David J. McCarten, Ramin Ravanpey, Russell G. Braun
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Patent number: 6147696Abstract: A video game/comunications system is disclosed which permits guest room guests to actively participate in video game play or to use other data processing/communication services. A multi-tasking master host computer stores video games and other application programs on its hard disk, downloads programs to an array of SNES game playing engines in response to guest selections. Each guest room guest room includes a terminal device which is coupled to the guest's color television and to a game controller. By pressing a game controller menu key, the guest room guest initiates the downloading of applications software by the host computer to the array of SNES engines located within the guest room. A downloaded applications program generate a display menu which appears on the guest's television.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1997Date of Patent: November 14, 2000Assignee: Nintendo Co. Ltd.Inventors: Darren C. Smith, Kenji Nishizawa, David J. McCarten, Ramin Ravanpey, Russell G. Braun
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Patent number: 5923306Abstract: A video game/communications system is disclosed which permits guest room guests to actively participate in video game play or to use other data processing/communication services. A multi-tasking master host computer stores video games and other application programs on its hard disk, downloads programs to an array of SNES game playing engines in response to guest selections. Each guest room guest room includes a terminal device which is coupled to the guest's color television and to a game controller. By pressing a game controller menu key, the guest room guest initiates the downloading of applications software by the host computer to the array of SNES engines located within the guest room. A downloaded applications program generate a display menu which appears on the guest's television.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: Nintendo Co. Ltd.Inventors: Darren C. Smith, Kenji Nishizawa, David J. McCarten, Ramin Ravanpey, Russell G. Braun
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Patent number: 5581270Abstract: A video game/communications system is disclosed which permits guest room guests to actively participate in video game play or to use other data processing/communication services. A multi-tasking master host computer stores video games and other application programs on its hard disk, downloads programs to an array of SNES game playing engines in response to guest selections. Each guest room guest room includes a terminal device which is coupled to the guest's color television and to a game controller. By pressing a game controller menu key, the guest room guest initiates the downloading of applications software by the host computer to the array of SNES engines located within the guest room. A downloaded applications program generate a display menu which appears on the guest's television.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1993Date of Patent: December 3, 1996Assignee: Nintendo of America, Inc.Inventors: Darren C. Smith, Kenji Nishizawa, David J. McCarten, Ramin Ravanpey, Russell G. Braun