Network and video/audio system and method for gaming and virtual reality

• US 10,075,563 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2016
• Issued: 09/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GridRaster Inc.
• Original Assignee: GridRaster Inc.
• Inventors: Ranjan, Rishi, Dass, Yaranama Venkata Ramana
• Primary Examiner(s): Boutah, Alina A
• Application Number:
  US15/016,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20170230482A1
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• Field of Search: 709203, 709217, 709201, 709219, 709231, 725 62, 718104
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/327 using wireless networks, e.g. Wi-Fi® or piconet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/34 using peer-to-peer connections
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/355 Performing operations on behalf of clients with restricted processing capabilities, e.g. servers transform changing game scene into an encoded video stream for transmitting to a mobile phone or a thin client
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2219/024 Multi-user, collaborative environment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] H04L51/04; selective video distribution H04N21/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/816 involving special video data, e.g 3D video

Abstract

A wireless network and video/audio system and method for gaming and virtual reality are provided. The system and method intelligently harnesses the computing power of network of local-devices and the cloud to make powerful computing possible, anywhere.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a plurality of computers, wherein each computer acts as one of a client peer and a client helper peer;

a network that connects the plurality of computers so that the plurality of computers communicate with each other over the network;

each computer having at least a renderer component, a resequencer packet data component that resequences frame of data received by the computer and at least one encoder/decoder component that perform an action;

wherein each of the client helper peers decode a frame of data for a process being executed by the client peer and provide the decoded frame data to the client peer; and

wherein the client peer receives the decoded frame data from each client helper peer, resequences the decoded frame data from each client helper peer using the resequencer packet data component and executes a process using the resequenced decoded frame data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each computer further comprises an intellistub component that manages the process when the computer is acting as the client peer and a resequencer component that accumulates the data from the client helper peers and resequences the accumulated data provided from the client helper peers when the computer is acting as a client peer.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the intellistub component on a computer schedules a video rendering from the client helper peers when the computer is acting as a client peer.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the action of the client helper peer is decoding video data and wherein providing the data further comprises sending a video frame to the client peer.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the process is one of gaming and virtual reality.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the network is a wireless network.

7. A method, comprising:

providing a plurality of peers, wherein each peer acts as one of a client peer and a client helper peer and a network that connects the plurality of peers so that the plurality of peers communicate with each other over the network, wherein each peer has at least a renderer component, a resequencer packet data component and at least one encoder/decoder component that perform an action;

decoding, by each of the client helper peers, a frame of data for a process being executed by the client peer;

providing, by each client helper peer, the decoded frame data to the client peer;

receiving, by the client peer, the decoded frame data from each client helper peer;

resequencing, by the client peer using the resequencer packet data component, the decoded frame data from each client helper peer; and

executing the process using the resequenced decoded frame data.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising managing, by an intellistub component in the client peer, the process, accumulating, by a resequencer in the client peer, the data from the client helper peers and resequencing, by a resequencer in the client peer, the accumulated data provided from the client helper peers.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising scheduling, by the intellistub component of the client peer, a video rendering from the client helper peers.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the action of the client helper peer is decoding video data and wherein providing the data further comprises sending a video frame to the client peer.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein performing the process further comprises sequencing the video frames and displaying the video frames.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the process is one of gaming and virtual reality.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein providing the data further comprises providing the data using a wireless network.