Patent ID: 8170701
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: A63F,G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of hosting at least one interactive application through at least one interactive application host center and delivering audio of a running interactive application to at least one client, comprising the following processes, receiving interactive input by an interactive application host wherein said interactive application host is assigned to execute an interactive application for a client and said interactive input is sent from said client over network; executing the interactive application by at least one interactive application host under the control of the received interactive input wherein said interactive application host comprises multiple processing elements and can run multiple interactive applications for a plurality of clients; transmitting audio rendering commands generated by the executed interactive application to at least one audio rendering apparatus; processing audio rendering commands of the executed interactive application by the audio rendering apparatus, simulating audio effect by an audio simulation means and/or audio mixing means, and generating digital audio output; compressing and/or encoding said rendered audio by at least one audio compression component integrated with the audio rendering apparatus, or by at least one audio compression acceleration module connected with the audio rendering apparatus or interactive application host; transmitting said compressed and/or encoded audio to at least one client over network; and decompressing and/or decoding the received audio and presenting the audio by the client.