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Patent offers clue in mystery of Xbox hard drive

Then again, maybe the next Xbox will have a hard drive.

The likely fate of the game console's storage medium--the subject of ongoing speculation as Microsoft closely guards details on the planned successor to the current Xbox--got a new twist this week from a patent granted to the software giant. U.S. patent 6,716,102, granted Tuesday to Microsoft, covers methods for storing data about games in progress.

News source: C|net News.com

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