Title:
MULTI-PLATFORM INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2003009135
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A system (10) and method for executing an interactive software application such as a game. The invention enables a game developed on one platform to be ported to another incompatible platform without recompilation or modification while the performance of the game is not reduced on porting. The system has a game application (11) that defines model objects; an engine (13) that generates and stores model objects (14); and a hardware module (15) that retrieves the model objects and executes corresponding hardware methods. The engine does not make a sequence of procedure calls to the hardware module. An abstraction layer (17) provides synchronous communication between the hardware module and the game application and further provides synchronous communication between the engine and the hardware module.
Inventors:
LITTLE DOUGLAS MCPHERSON (GB)
STEWART NEIL WILLIAM (GB)
STEWART NEIL WILLIAM (GB)
Application Number:
PCT/GB2002/003246
Publication Date:
February 12, 2004
Filing Date:
July 16, 2002
Export Citation:
Assignee:
STEEL MONKEYS LTD (GB)
LITTLE DOUGLAS MCPHERSON (GB)
STEWART NEIL WILLIAM (GB)
LITTLE DOUGLAS MCPHERSON (GB)
STEWART NEIL WILLIAM (GB)
International Classes:
G06F9/44; (IPC1-7): G06F9/44
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2000072583A1 | 2000-11-30 |
Foreign References:
| US6128011A | 2000-10-03 | |||
| EP0860773A1 | 1998-08-26 | |||
| EP1033648A2 | 2000-09-06 |
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