PS3 -- 2.40 UPDATE -- In-GAME XMB WITH SOUNDTRACKS CONFIRMED!!!!!!!!!

[ion-storm]

Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

Kasz216 said:
Here is the patent anyway. I assume they just found away around it. Haven't erally looked at the patent myself.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=mx93AAAAEBAJ&dq=gaming+soundtrack

Hmm, so it seems if a different 'method' and 'apparatus' are used, all good.

Check and check.

Really, this is like saying Sony or Apple patented the technology to send music to headphones while a digital screen is being displayed.  But no, that's not how it works.  They could only patent their own narrow 'method' using their own 'apparatus' so it can't be exactly copied without R&D.

Yeah that seems like the case. The patent is all about the implementation, not the end result.