[VANILLA-L:1262] RE: [VANILLA-L:1261] Re: [VANILLA-L:1258] Re: [VANILLA-L:1257] FYI: Patent granted on Real Time Gaming engine..

[Stephen Ollis <ollis@att.net.au>]

Thank you to both James and Dave for reading between the
lines and figuring out my intent.

My apologies to rest of the reader population for the terseness. 
Brevity in real life, as in Netrek, is a character trait I tend
to uphold.

FyreStryke.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Ahn [mailto:ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 11:32 AM
> To: vanilla-l@us.netrek.org
> Subject: [VANILLA-L:1261] Re: [VANILLA-L:1258] Re: 
> [VANILLA-L:1257] FYI:
> Patent granted on Real Time Gaming engine..
> 
> 
> It's a FYI that is an interesting read.  The patent makes 54 
> claims that,
> if broad enough, could cover internet based real-time games 
> like Netrek
> and other more recent PC games like Quake.
> 
> Note that there are over a dozen other patents granted on various
> distributed systems similar to the one described by RTime, Inc. with
> names like "Multisite multiplayer interactive electronic entertainment
> system having a partially player defined universe" and others.  But
> you have to read the claims to see if they really mean anything to
> networked games.
> 
> It's also interesting to note that all these patents 
> post-date the first
> incarnation of Netrek by many years....
> 
> On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 06:00:45PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > What are you trying to say here?
> > 
> > Quoting Stephen Ollis (ollis@att.net.au):
> > > 
> > > http://www.rtimeinc.com/html/patent.html
> > > 
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