Patents by Inventor Wilson Venhola

Wilson Venhola 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).

  • Client-side prediction of a local game object to reduce apparent network lag of multiplayer simulations
    Patent number: 8678929
    Abstract: A method for operating a networked interactive game system is provided. An input command generated by a local user of a local game system that controls a local object of an interactive game may be received. A state for the local object in the present game frame may be predicted based on the input command. State data of a first object of the interactive game that was determined in a network simulation of a previous game frame may be retrieved. A global object of the interactive game in the present game frame may be course-corrected to be aligned with the global object in the previous game frame using the predicted state for the local object in the present game frame and the state data of the first object of the previous game frame. The present game frame may be rendered with the course-corrected global object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics Arts Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Nishimura, Wu Hai, Harold Chaput, Wilson Venhola, Asim Shahjahan