Patent ID: 8393964

Claim:
A system to interface with a game client to control a video game, comprising: a game client; a base station being interfaced with the game client, the base station having processing circuitry, the processing circuitry configured to send and receive data between the base station and the game client, the base station further configured to process position data; and a controller being interfaced with the base station, the controller having hardware to process movement data of the controller and communicate the movement data to the base station, the base station processing the movement data of the controller, the position data being relayed from the base station to the game client to determine a relative position of the controller to the base station, wherein changes in the relative position of the controller facilitate interactive control with the video game; wherein the controller is further interfaced directly with the game client so as to wirelessly communicate input data generated by one or more inputs of the controller to the game client without communicating with the base station.