Patent ID: 8360890
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A system for preventing cheating during online gaming, the system comprising: a second online gaming server computer system configured to receive information regarding cheaters detected during online gaming gathered by a first online gaming server computer system, wherein the first online gaming server computer system is configured to gather the information regarding cheaters detected during online gaming; and a database configured for aggregating the received information regarding cheaters detected during online gaming gathered by the first online gaming server computer system along with information stored in the database regarding cheaters detected during online gaming gathered from multiple online gaming server computer systems, wherein the aggregated information from the database regarding cheaters detected during online gaming is made available to the second online gaming server computer system, whereby cheaters identified in the aggregated information from the database are prevented from online gaming on the second online gaming server computer system based on the aggregated information from the database.