A METHOD OF VALIDATING THE RIGHTS OF A USER TO PARTICIPATE IN AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A cheat detection facility is provided in which challenges are issued to ascertain the trustworthiness of the computer environment running a program as well as the integrity of this program in order to ensure that the user is not running any patches or other code so as to improve his performance in the game. If any of these checks are failed then the user cannot participate further in the game.