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Palm Sued Over Multiplayer PDA Games Patent

Posted by timothy on from the shame-is-free-but-rare dept.

Dr. Manhattan writes "Palm, along with several other companies, are being sued by Peer-to-Peer Systems LLC pursuant to patent 5,618,045. Seems that "an interactive multiple player game system including at least two playing devices communicating over an ad-hoc, wireless, all-to-all broadcast network" is not 'obvious.' Dang, I was planning on writing one..."

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  1. Re:multi by John_Sauter · · Score: 2, Informative

    Spacewar, the first video game, was a multi-player game which ran on one device, the PDP-1 and its Type 30 display. The two players watched the screen together.
    John Sauter (J_Sauter@Empire.Net)