Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toy and associated computer game
- Patent Title (中): 玩具和相关的电脑游戏
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Application No.: US13216455Application Date: 2011-08-24
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Publication No.: US08651949B2Publication Date: 2014-02-18
- Inventor: Mark Dixon , David Francis , Brian Urbanczyk
- Applicant: Mark Dixon , David Francis , Brian Urbanczyk
- Applicant Address: US CA El Segundo
- Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA El Segundo
- Agency: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC
- Main IPC: A63F9/24
- IPC: A63F9/24

Abstract:
A series of co-packaged products, wherein each product includes a physical toy, action figure, or the like, along with an associated CD-ROM or other media encoded with software code or logic that includes a computer game that uses as a game character a rendering of the physical toy with which the CD-ROM is co-packaged. In an embodiment, each CD-ROM in the series includes all of the games that are associated with each respective game character in the series. Each CD-ROM is further configured, if it is a first such CD-ROM being installed on the computer, to generate and store a configuration file that indicates which ones of the game characters should be activated. Thus, once a first CD-ROM of the series is installed on the computer, a subsequent install of software encoded on another CD-ROM will result in, perhaps, only a modification of the configuration file, without having to install the entire computer game again.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120214589A1 Toy and Associated Computer Game Public/Granted day:2012-08-23
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