摘要 |
A method and apparatus are provided for using cell phones as controllers in a console video game, thereby allowing a large party of players to play simultaneously and to use an interface with which they are familiar. Best suited for question-and-answer style games, the cell phone interface is more adept at text-based answers than is a typical game controller. Key components in the system is an intervening server which conducts the communications between the game console and the service provider(s) for the players cell phones, and a cell phone database which tracks the players and games in progress for subsequently directing incoming messages from cell phones to the appropriate game console.
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