New guy with brilliant patent looking for next step...

Brian Ciesicki 0 Reputation points
2026-07-02T18:54:14.32+00:00

Hello, I'm kind of a new guy here, and I don't know where else to go with this. I understand the basics of computer programming but not enough to be fluent enough in one particular language. It's kind of hard to find human help anywhere in any business nowadays.

Here is the history of the idea that got me noticed in the video game industry: in the mid 2010s I conceived of a way to turn any old video game into an old online video game, and the secret was using cellular push to talk data as an extra-long lan line, where if 8 milliseconds is the cutoff points to do real-time data then you could transmit data up to 2,400 km and not have to make any specific server unique to that game. You could have a generic server serve all old games.

I sent my project to various companies and the one that was interested at the time was Intelevision AKA Keith Robinson. He told me he would talk to his tech Guy to see if it was possible which was Steve Roney. Steve Roney told me this: he could program a generic server for an Intellivision-level complexity game EASILY if he knew that cellular data in low ping mode was simultaneously 3G speeds which is 500k and 200k out while still being one millisecond of time per 300 km traveled on the straight line Tower to Tower cellular network.

I couldn't answer that so I talked to the Sprint's executive engineer Tex Tiexera. And he told me that in direct connect mode the only difference between a standard Cellular connection of data and a direct connect connection data is the quicker ping time on the direct connect data and all that costs is 30 seconds of link up time to establish a direct connection. In other words you do not lose any megabits of speed by switching to the direct connect as opposed to the decentralized cellular network.

The next day Keith Robinson died and the television company was all in turmoil. My idea was considered among the companies priorities until Tommy Talarico's first fork in the road which was in order to get Christian book sellers to carry the Intellivision Amico, the first thing that had to go was online gameplay, (think "stranger danger") so therefore, Netrogames suddenly became an albatross on Amico. Which is kind of funny because I was not informed of this until very late in the pre 10/10/2020 game.

Now I'm looking for a home for my idea. Maybe this is a way you could get Xbox Prime (I couldn't think of a better name for the original Xbox system ever since the Third Xbox system appropriated the name Xbox One.) games to go back to being online. Or maybe you could get other systems online that are not affiliated with Nintendo or Sony, the largest two being Sega and Atari to join up and have retro games Head to Head online.

I remember submitting it to Atari and they were afraid of what would happen if Activision (currently, but not back then, a Microsoft company) would have found out that their games could be made online without their permission.

It would have been a hardware based joystick trafficker instead of inspecting code and recoding the game.

I don't know what Steve Roney's current obligations are, but if he can remember what he was planning to do before Keith died, achieving that feat would be kind of handy now.

Now we have 4G speeds as baseline speeds that the whole nation is running under which is 10 Megs in, 5 megs out which means we could do more complex games than we could have in the mid 2010s when it was 500k in 200 k out. So it's no longer just limited to Intellivision complexity level games but probably everything that isn't online could easily be turned online if it naturally has a two-player or more local mode. Imagine turning arcade classics or console exclusives into head-to-head gaming online without programming specific code for that. One piece of generic code would handle everything the whole collection at once. The only issue at that point becomes permissions.

As I said I have a tough time finding where to go with this so and there's no real human operator outside customer service to help with this so, forgive me if I posted in the wrong place, and as I said I know it's possible, but I just don't know how to do it myself.

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