Patent ID: 8070603
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: A63F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A network entertainment system comprising a plurality of first network apparatuses each having different performance characteristics, and a second network apparatus which runs a network application and processes packet data transmitted from said plurality of first network apparatuses, said first network apparatuses and said second network apparatus being connected via a network, wherein said second network apparatus includes a lag adjustment database in which lag adjustments for varying types of first network apparatuses are stored, and lag adjustment means for adjusting a time lag for processing and transmitting data packets, wherein each data packet received by the second network apparatus is processed by the second network apparatus only after storing information from the received data packet for an amount of time corresponding to the time lag determined by the lag adjustment means for the first network apparatus from which the received data packet was transmitted, the data packet is processed by the second network apparatus after waiting the amount of time determined by the lag adjustment means, the processing causing the generation of a data packet to be transmitted by the second network apparatus and further wherein the data packet to be transmitted by the second network apparatus is transmitted from the second network apparatus only after an amount of delay determined by the lag adjustment means for the first network apparatus to which the data packet is to be transmitted; wherein each first network apparatus transmits an identifier code to the second network apparatus identifying a type of network apparatus, and the time lag adjustment amount that the second network apparatus applies to packet data traveling to and/or from a particular first network apparatus is determined by retrieving time lag information from the database based exclusively on the identifier code designating a type of network apparatus from each first network apparatus, without analysis of any actual data transmission to and/or from the first network apparatus.