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Dec

2022

U.S. Patent No. 10,913,003: Mini-games accessed through a sharing interface

Issued February 9, 2021, to Sony Interactive Ent., LLC
Filed: May 19, 2019 (claiming priority to March 13, 2012)

Overview:

U.S. Patent No. 10,913,003 (the ‘003 patent) relates to sharing a gameplay experience in a cloud gaming system. The ‘003 patent details a method of sharing gameplay by first streaming gameplay of a first user over a network, receiving a command from the first user’s gameplay to share an interactive playable portion, and then responding to the command by sharing that portion with a second user through a social interface. The interactive playable portion would provide the second user a substantially similar game experience to the first user, such as the same scene, spatial location, and temporal location. Sharing the interactive playable portion also could enable the second user to view the gameplay of the game from which the interactive playable portion is generated. If multiple pieces of gameplay are shared, the ‘003 patent could also provide a second user with multiple portions of interactive playable game, arranged together, potentially including recorded gameplay of the first user. The ‘003 patent could be used to share recorded gameplay, from one friend to another, and enabling the second user to try out the same gameplay as the first. Backseat gamer beware!

Abstract:

A method for sharing a gameplay experience is provided, including: executing a video game by a cloud gaming system, wherein executing the video game includes processing a game state of the video game to provide gameplay of the video game; streaming the gameplay of the video game over a network, the gameplay of the video game being defined for a first user; receiving a command to share an interactive playable portion from the gameplay of the video game; responsive to the command, sharing the interactive playable portion of the video game through a social interface, the social interface enabling access for gameplay of the interactive playable portion by a second user.

Illustrative Claim:

A method for sharing a gameplay experience, comprising: executing a video game by a cloud gaming system, wherein executing the video game includes processing a first game state of the video game to provide gameplay of the video game by a first user; streaming the gameplay of the video game over a network, to enable the gameplay of the video game by the first user; receiving a command to share an interactive playable portion from the gameplay of the video game by the first user; responsive to the command, sharing the interactive playable portion of the video game through a social interface, the social interface enabling access for gameplay of the interactive playable portion by a second user, wherein the gameplay of the interactive playable portion by the second user is enabled by processing a second game state of the video game different from the first game state.

May

2021

U.S. Patent No. 10,688,390: Crowd-sourced cloud gaming using peer-to-peer streaming

Issued June 23, 2020 to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
Priority Date: November 5, 2018

Summary:
U.S. Patent No. 10,688,390 (the ’390 Patent) relates to real-time crowd-sourced gameplay control using peer-to-peer streaming. The ’390 Patent details a method of using a streaming technology named WebRTC to create a peer-to-peer, direct connection that avoids multiple hops that negatively impact latency in a video stream. A host can stream video to another user, who in turn can share the video to another user, and so on. In some embodiments, other players may be able to join a game session and takeover the controls to help out. In some implementations, the primary and secondary user devices allow for real-time interactive gameplay in the cloud video game session. Peer-to-peer streaming may be used to have a massive mutli-player online gaming experience without the cloud gaming provider needing additional resources to support secondary users.

Abstract:
A method includes: executing, by a cloud gaming machine, a session of a cloud video game, the session configured to generate gameplay video; streaming the gameplay video from the cloud gaming machine over a network to a primary user device; wherein the primary user device is configured to stream the gameplay video over a peer-to-peer network to one or more secondary user devices; wherein the primary user device is configured to process primary inputs, that are generated from interactive gameplay associated with the primary user device, and secondary inputs, that are generated from interactive gameplay associated with the one or more secondary user devices, to generate aggregated inputs; receiving, over the network by the cloud gaming machine, the aggregated inputs from the primary user device; wherein executing the session of the cloud video game includes applying the aggregated inputs to update a game state of the cloud video game.

Illustrative Claim:
1. A method, comprising: executing, by a cloud gaming machine, a session of a cloud video game, the session configured to generate gameplay video; streaming the gameplay video from the cloud gaming machine over a network to a primary user device, the primary user device configured to render the gameplay video to a primary display; wherein the primary user device is configured to stream the gameplay video over a peer-to-peer network to one or more secondary user devices, each of said secondary user devices being configured to render the gameplay video, respectively, to one or more secondary displays; wherein the primary user device is configured to process primary inputs, that are generated from interactive gameplay associated with the primary user device, and secondary inputs, that are generated from interactive gameplay associated with the one or more secondary user devices, to generate aggregated inputs; receiving, over the network by the cloud gaming machine, the aggregated inputs from the primary user device; wherein executing the session of the cloud video game includes applying the aggregated inputs to update a game state of the cloud video game that is processed to generate the gameplay video.

U.S. Patent No. 10,913,003: Mini-games accessed through a sharing interface

U.S. Patent No. 10,913,003: Mini-games accessed through a sharing interface

U.S. Patent No. 10,688,390: Crowd-sourced cloud gaming using peer-to-peer streaming

U.S. Patent No. 10,688,390: Crowd-sourced cloud gaming using peer-to-peer streaming

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