Appeal No. 2002-0187
Application No. 09/100,792
at first and second rates. The second rate is varied in response
to changes in the tactical condition of the computer-controlled
unit.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A method for simulating a subject computer-controlled
unit in a simulated environment having at least one other
unit within the environment, the method comprising:
periodically determining a tactical condition relating
to the subject unit;
updating a first portion of the simulation at a first
rate;
updating a second portion of the simulation at a second
rate; and
varying the second rate in response to changes in the
tactical condition.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
McManus, “A concurrent distributed system for aircraft tactical
decision generation,” Proceedings of the IEEE/AIAA/NASA Digital
Avionics Systems Conference, pp. 505-12 (1990).
Noser et al. (Noser), “Navigation for Digital Actors Based on
Synthetic Vision, Memory, and Learning,” Computer & Graphics,
(19)1, pp. 7-19 (January/February 1995).
Trias et al. (Trias), “Decision Networks for Integrating the
Behaviors of Virtual Agents and Avatars,” Proceedings of the IEEE
Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium, pp. 156-62
(1996).
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