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Electronically augmented multiplayer sporting game with virtual ball passed by infrared apparatus

  • US 6,674,995 B1
  • Filed: 12/22/1999
  • Issued: 01/06/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a wireless telecommunications system including a wireless telecommunications network which communicates using radio signals with a plurality of mobile terminals, a method of conducting a multi-player game, wherein a virtual ball, used to accomplish an object of said multi-player game, is passed among the mobile terminals operated by opposing players or players on a same team, comprising:

  • transmitting from a first mobile terminal being operated by a first player to a second mobile terminal being operated by a second player a first signal including a virtual ball used to accomplish the object of the multi-player game, said first signal represents said virtual ball being passed from said first mobile terminal to said second mobile terminal;

    in response to receipt of said first signal in said second mobile terminal, sending from said second mobile terminal to said first mobile terminal a second signal indicating said virtual ball has been caught;

    in response to receipt of said second signal in said first mobile terminal, sending from said first mobile to said second mobile terminal a third signal including an activation code for activating said virtual ball;

    in response to receipt of said third signal in said second mobile terminal, sending from said second mobile terminal a fourth signal acknowledging receipt of said activation code and indicating that said second mobile terminal is now in possession of said virtual ball; and

    activating said virtual ball in said second mobile terminal using said activation code, thereby permitting the second player operating said second mobile terminal to further pursue the object of said multi-player game using said virtual ball, wherein said first, second, third and fourth signals are each different from the other.

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