Universal City Studios received 1 granted patent in Networking.
The patent covers technology for managing game state data in theme park attractions through distributed caching systems. Rather than requiring constant communication with a central server during a ride, the approach stores player information locally on each vehicle and synchronizes the updates to a global record after the attraction cycle completes.
Universal's single Networking patent tackles the challenge of keeping game data current on moving ride vehicles without the latency of constant server communication. The design places a local cache directly on each vehicle to track rider game state throughout the attraction experience. During the ride, all game events and progress updates happen on the vehicle itself, avoiding the delays that come with querying a remote system for every action. Once riders complete the cycle, the vehicle reconciles its locally stored data with the central player record, ensuring the global state reflects what happened during the ride.
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