From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journali sts report that a patent application by the inventors UMMINGER, III, Frederick W illiam (Oakland, CA, US), filed on March 15, 2023, was made available online on September 19, 2024. The patent's assignee is Roblox Corporation (San Mateo, California, United State s). News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: "Multiplayer games and online virtual experiences have tech nical problems caused by the latency between a user's computing device and a ser ver. For example, if there is 250 millisecond (ms) latency between the user's co mputing device and a server that maintains a game state of the game world, then it takes 250 ms for an action by the user to reach the server and cause an effec t on the game or virtual experience. It takes at least another 250 ms for the ch anged state of the game world to be communicated to the user's computing device for display to the user. As a result, a half second may have elapsed before a us er can see the result of their action. This is called lag and is perceived by us ers as an undesirable slow and sluggish experience.
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