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Here a list of patents that might be related to the original Xbox:
 
Here a list of patents that might be related to the original Xbox:
  
* Filed 1997-11-25 by nVidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6697063 "Rendering pipeline"
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* Filed 1997-11-25 by Nvidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6697063 "Rendering pipeline"
 
* Filed 1998-12-23 by Microsoft: https://www.google.com/patents/US6417858 "Processor for geometry transformations and lighting calculations"
 
* Filed 1998-12-23 by Microsoft: https://www.google.com/patents/US6417858 "Processor for geometry transformations and lighting calculations"
* Filed 1999-12-06 by nVidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6198488 "Transform, lighting and rasterization system embodied on a single semiconductor platform"
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* Filed 1999-12-06 by Nvidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6198488 "Transform, lighting and rasterization system embodied on a single semiconductor platform"
* Filed 1999-12-06 by nVidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6573900 "Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for a sequencer in a transform/lighting module capable of processing multiple independent execution threads"
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* Filed 1999-12-06 by Nvidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6573900 "Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for a sequencer in a transform/lighting module capable of processing multiple independent execution threads"
* Filed 1999-12-06 by nVidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6765575 "Clip-less rasterization using line equation-based traversal"
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* Filed 1999-12-06 by Nvidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6765575 "Clip-less rasterization using line equation-based traversal"
* Filed 1999-12-06 by nVidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6650325 "Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for boustrophedonic rasterization"
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* Filed 1999-12-06 by Nvidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6650325 "Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for boustrophedonic rasterization"
* Filed 2000-12-05 by nVidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6690372 "System, method and article of manufacture for shadow mapping"
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* Filed 2000-12-05 by Nvidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6690372 "System, method and article of manufacture for shadow mapping"
 
* Filed 2001-01-11 by Microsoft: https://www.google.com/patents/USD452282 "Portion of an electronic housing"
 
* Filed 2001-01-11 by Microsoft: https://www.google.com/patents/USD452282 "Portion of an electronic housing"
 
* Filed 2001-01-11 by Microsoft: https://www.google.com/patents/USD451513 "Computer input device" (describes the original Xbox controller, a.k.a. : "the Duke")
 
* Filed 2001-01-11 by Microsoft: https://www.google.com/patents/USD451513 "Computer input device" (describes the original Xbox controller, a.k.a. : "the Duke")
* Filed 2001-06-19 by nVidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6870540 "System, method and computer program product for a programmable pixel processing model with instruction set"
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* Filed 2001-06-19 by Nvidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US6870540 "System, method and computer program product for a programmable pixel processing model with instruction set"
* Filed 2002-06-07 by Microsoft: https://www.google.com/patents/US6907522 "Use of hashing in a secure boot loader" (mentions the NV2A directly)
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* Filed 2002-06-07 by Microsoft: https://www.google.com/patents/US6907522 "Use of hashing in a secure boot loader" (mentions "NV2A")
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* Filed 2005-01-04 by Nvidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US7916149 "Block linear memory ordering of texture data"
 
* Filed 2005-01-07 by Microsoft: https://www.google.com/patents/US7676840 "Use of hashing in a secure boot loader" (a continuation of patent US6907522)
 
* Filed 2005-01-07 by Microsoft: https://www.google.com/patents/US7676840 "Use of hashing in a secure boot loader" (a continuation of patent US6907522)
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* Filed 2005-05-17 by Nvidia: https://www.google.com/patents/US7793029 "Translation device apparatus for configuring printed circuit board connectors " (describes coupling two PCI Express connectors, possibly for the secondary Chihiro board, mentions "Xbox")
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https://www.google.com/patents/US8641525
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Possibly unrelated :
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* Filed 1989-12-29 by Dolby Laboratories: https://www.google.com/patents/US5109417 "Low bit rate transform coder, decoder, and encoder/decoder for high-quality audio"
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* Filed 2008-01-15 by Microsoft: https://www.google.nl/patents/US8607324 "Untrusted gaming system access to online gaming service" (describes part of Xbox online)
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* Filed 2011-06-17 by Microsoft: https://www.google.com/patents/US8641525 "Controller for video game console" (one of the 51 patents comprising the Xbox One controller)
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* Filed 2011-09-07 by Microsoft: https://www.google.nl/patents/US8597125 "System and method for configuring game data about players"
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* Filed 2012-01-13 by Microsoft: https://www.google.nl/patents/US8602897 "Extended and editable gamer profile"

Revision as of 21:22, 16 July 2017

Here a list of patents that might be related to the original Xbox:

https://www.google.com/patents/US8641525 Possibly unrelated :