On December 30th, 2004, the United States Patent and Trademark Office accepted a patent application submitted by Microsoft for a "System and method
for parallel execution of data generation tasks" for a video game console.
Almost six months ago, there were images circulating on the Web that claimed to be a schematic drawing of the Xbox 2 from a patent application. Around
the same time, Team Xbox ran the image and reported a source had tipped them off to some of the features fans could expect in the next console.
Several other gaming sites picked up the story, but eventually Microsoft "asked" (read: cease and desist letter) Web publications carrying the image
to pull it down.
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