Remote gaming and projection

• US 9,873,042 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2011
• Issued: 01/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Blaho, Bruce
• Primary Examiner(s): D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY
• Application Number:
  US13/176,044
• Publication Number:
  US 20110263335A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,394 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/26 having at least one additional display device, e.g. on the game controller or outside a game booth
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/32 using local area network [LAN] connections
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/33 using wide area network [WAN] connections
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/301 using an additional display connected to the game console, e.g. on the controller
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/404 characterized by a local network connection
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/50 characterized by details of game servers

Abstract

Remote gaming and/or projection are provided. A first device includes a gaming system or presentations associated with its display. The features of the gaming system are accessed over a network and images associated with accessed features and/or associated with presentations of a host'"'"'s display are then projected onto a client'"'"'s display. The client and the client'"'"'s display are remote from the host, the gaming system, and the host'"'"'s display.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing, by a first device, features of a gaming system that executes on a second device, wherein accessing the features of the gaming system is performed over a network using Internet Protocol communication;

receiving, by the first device over the network using Internet Protocol communication, first images in a gaming session of the gaming system, wherein the first images are generated at the second device for display at the second device, wherein the first images are captured based on monitoring a video port of the second device, and wherein the first images include images containing content modified by interaction between the second device and a third device in the gaming session over the network using Internet Protocol communication, the interaction caused by selections made by a user at the third device with respect to images of the gaming session projected on a second display device interfaced to the third device; and

projecting the first images for the gaming session on a first display device interfaced to the first device, wherein the first images are also to be projected for the gaming session on the second display device interfaced to the third device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first, second, and third devices are geographically dispersed and separated by the network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein projecting the first images further comprises projecting control elements selectable by a user at the first device to access the features of the gaming system, the method further comprising:

communicating indications of selections of the control elements from the first device to the second device over the network using Internet Protocol communication.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing the features of the gaming system that executes on the second device comprises accessing the features of the gaming system that executes at a web site including the second device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing the features of the gaming system over the network comprises accessing the features of the gaming system over an Internet network.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the first images comprises receiving compressed images, the method further comprising:

decompressing the compressed images,

wherein projecting the first images comprises projecting decompressed images on the first display device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an indication of activation of an input controller at the first device, wherein the activation relates to the gaming session; and

sending a command over the network using Internet Protocol communication to the second device, where the command relates to the activation of the input controller.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the first images comprises receiving the first images that are part of a video associated with the gaming session of the gaming system.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the first images are projected on the first display device interfaced to the first device simultaneously with projection of the first images on the second display device interfaced to the third device.

9. A first device comprising:

an interface to communicate over an Internet network with a second device; and

a processing device to;

access, based on communication over the Internet network, features of a gaming system that executes on the second device;

receive, over the Internet network, first images in a gaming session of the gaming system, wherein the first images are generated at the second device for display at the second device, where the first images are captured based on monitoring a video port of the second device, and wherein the first images include images containing content modified by interaction between the second device and a third device in the gaming session over the Internet network, the interaction caused by selections of control elements made by a user at the third device with respect to images of the gaming session projected on a second display device interfaced to a third device; and

project the first images for the gaming session on a first display device interfaced to the first device, wherein the first images are also to be projected for the gaming session on the second display device interfaced to the third device.

10. The first device of claim 9, wherein the first device is geographically dispersed from the second and third devices.

11. The first device of claim 9, wherein the first images to be projected on the first display device include control elements selectable by a user at the first device to access the features of the gaming system, wherein the processing device is to further:

communicate indications of selections of the control elements in the first images from the first device to the second device over the Internet network.

12. The first device of claim 9, wherein the features accessed are of the gaming system that executes on the second device at a website.

13. The first device of claim 9, wherein the first images are part of a video associated with the gaming session of the gaming system.

14. The first device of claim 9, wherein the processing device is to further:

receive audio data from the second device, wherein the audio data is related to the first images and is based on monitoring an audio port at the second device.

20. The first device of claim 9, wherein the projecting of the first images on the first display device interfaced to the first device occurs simultaneously with projection of the first images on the second display device interfaced to the third device.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that upon execution cause a first device to:

access features of a gaming system that executes on a second device, wherein accessing the features of the gaming system is performed over a network using Internet Protocol communication;

receive, over the network using Internet Protocol communication, first images in a gaming session of the gaming system, wherein the first images are generated at the second device for display at the second device, wherein the first images are captured based on monitoring a video port of the second device, wherein the first images include images containing content modified by interaction between the second device and a third device in the gaming session over the network using Internet Protocol communication, the interaction caused by selections made by a user at the third device with respect to images of the gaming session projected on a second display device interfaced to the third device; and

project the first images for the gaming session on a first display device interfaced to the first device, wherein the first images are also to be projected for the gaming session on the second display device interfaced to the third device.

16. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein projecting the first images further comprises projecting control elements selectable by a user at the first device to access the features of the gaming system, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the first device to further:

communicate indications of selections of the control elements to the second device over the network using Internet Protocol communication.

17. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein accessing the features of the gaming system that executes on the second device comprises accessing the features of the gaming system that executes at a web site including the second device.

18. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein receiving the first images comprises receiving the first images that are part of a video associated with the gaming session of the gaming system.