Patent ID: 8308573
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. An end user gaming device for use in a multicasting system that has a unidirectional forward path to transmit content simultaneously to a plurality of end user gaming devices and a plurality of bidirectional communication paths, each separate from the unidirectional wireless forward broadcast path and unique to each of a corresponding one of the plurality of end user gaming devices, comprising: a content visual display configured to display content that is transmitted by the multicasting system, concurrently to the plurality of end user gaming devices and simultaneously received by each of the plurality of end user gaming devices, on the unidirectional forward path; a user input device that transmits end user private communications, input by the end user, on the bidirectional communication path to the multicasting system and to at least one of the plurality of end user gaming devices selected by the end user via the unique bidirectional communication path from the multicasting system that is associated with the selected end user gaming device; and a message display configured to display end user private communications originated by another of the plurality of end user gaming devices and received on the unique bidirectional communication path from the multicasting system.