US 12,296,271 B2
GPS seed for game play
Robert Louis Gallerani, Wynantskill, NY (US)
Assigned to Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/810,808.
Application 17/810,808 is a continuation of application No. 16/537,257, filed on Aug. 9, 2019, abandoned.
Prior Publication US 2023/0158406 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. A63F 9/24 (2006.01); A63F 13/00 (2014.01); A63F 13/216 (2014.01); A63F 13/65 (2014.01); F41A 33/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2019.01)
CPC A63F 13/65 (2014.09) [A63F 13/216 (2014.09); A63F 2300/205 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5573 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for use in determining aspects of a virtual game world of a video game, comprising:
receiving GPS location information generated by a game device including GPS related circuitry;
forming a seed number using at least some of the GPS location information, wherein the seed number is different from the GPS location information; and
procedurally generating aspects of the virtual game world using the seed number, the aspects being unrelated to GPS location.