公开(公告)号：US20230233933A1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-27

申请号：US18295622

申请日：2023-04-04

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC

Inventor： Andrew Buchanan Gault ,  David Perry ,  Rui Filipe Andrade Pereira

IPC: A63F13/355 ,  G06F9/455 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04L67/10 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/2145 ,  A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/32 ,  A63F13/327 ,  A63F13/33 ,  A63F13/335 ,  A63F13/45

CPC classification number: A63F13/355 ,  G06F9/45537 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04L67/10 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/2145 ,  A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/32 ,  A63F13/327 ,  A63F13/33 ,  A63F13/335 ,  A63F13/45 ,  A63F2300/407 ,  A63F2300/409 ,  A63F2300/538 ,  A63F2300/552

Abstract: A video server is configured to provide streaming video to players of computer games over a computing network. The video server can provided video of different games to different players simultaneously. This is accomplished by rendering several video streams in parallel using a single GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). The output of the GPU is provided to graphics processing pipelines that are each associated with a specific client/player and are dynamically allocated as needed. A client qualifier may be used to assure that only clients capable of presenting the streaming video to a player at a minimum level of quality receive the video stream. Video frames provided by the video server optionally include overlays added to the output of the GPU. These overlays can include voice data received from another game player.

公开(公告)号：US11707672B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-25

申请号：US17691371

申请日：2022-03-10

Applicant: Niantic, Inc.

Inventor： Jiahuan Liu ,  Mingliang Wei ,  Daniel Casadevall Pino ,  Charu Janqid

IPC: A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/216 ,  A63F13/40 ,  A63F13/65 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F13/87

CPC classification number: A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/216 ,  A63F13/40 ,  A63F13/65 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F13/87 ,  A63F2300/406 ,  A63F2300/5573 ,  A63F2300/69

Abstract: The virtual location of a player in a location-based game is determined from the real-world location of the player's client device. The location-based game provides the player access to one or more chat room based on their location. To determine the locations of chat room, a server analyzes player locations in a geographic region, clusters player locations to identify centroids, and adjusts the clusters based on constraints. The server selects chat room locations (e.g., at points of interest) to more evenly balance the number of players in each chat room while complying with one or more restraints on the size of the geographic area served by each chat room.

公开(公告)号：US11697061B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-11

申请号：US17148353

申请日：2021-01-13

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC

Inventor： David Perry

IPC: A63F13/211 ,  G06F3/14 ,  A63F13/40 ,  A63F13/30 ,  G02B27/01 ,  A63F13/5255 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/92 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/54 ,  A63F13/34 ,  A63F13/31 ,  A63F13/87 ,  A63F13/332 ,  A63F13/358 ,  H04N13/332

CPC classification number: A63F13/211 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/31 ,  A63F13/34 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/40 ,  A63F13/5255 ,  A63F13/54 ,  A63F13/87 ,  A63F13/92 ,  G02B27/017 ,  G06F3/14 ,  A63F13/332 ,  A63F13/358 ,  A63F2300/538 ,  A63F2300/8082 ,  G02B2027/014 ,  G09G2350/00 ,  H04N13/332

Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing hops associated with a head mounted display are described. The head mounted display includes a communications circuit for receiving and transmitting interactive media associated with a game program via a network. The interactive media is processed by the game cloud system and streamed directly to the communications circuit of the head mounted display. The head mounted display further includes a user input circuit for receiving an action from a user to generate an input, which includes position and motion detected by the user input circuit. The head mounted display includes a game processing circuit for decoding the interactive media received from the network. The game processing circuit drives a portion of interactivity associated with the game program. The portion of interactivity is generated based on the input.

公开(公告)号：US20230191256A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-22

申请号：US17889416

申请日：2022-08-17

Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd. ,  The Pokémon Company

Inventor： Shinnosuke MIKI ,  Noritaka OTSUKA ,  Kazuto SHIMIZU ,  Kojiro TAGUCHI

IPC: A63F13/58 ,  A63F13/30

CPC classification number: A63F13/58 ,  A63F13/30

Abstract: An example of a server receives first event data from an information processing apparatus. The server stores therein event management data including event state information that indicates whether a second event has already occurred or has not yet occurred. When receiving a request from the information processing apparatus, the server transmits at least one piece of second event data to the information processing apparatus. The at least one piece of second event data includes second event data based on event management data in which the event state information indicates that the second event has already occurred and/or second event data to be transmitted when the second event data stored in the first storage area is insufficient. Upon receiving the third event data indicating that the second event has occurred, the server updates the event state information so as to indicate that the second event has already occurred.

公开(公告)号：US11654364B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-23

申请号：US17173199

申请日：2021-02-10

Applicant: Kabam, Inc.

Inventor： Luc Pieron

IPC: A63F13/67 ,  G07F17/32 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/35 ,  A63F13/798 ,  A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/46 ,  A63F13/792 ,  A63F13/795 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04L67/131

CPC classification number: A63F13/67 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/35 ,  A63F13/46 ,  A63F13/792 ,  A63F13/795 ,  A63F13/798 ,  G07F17/3241 ,  G07F17/3251 ,  G07F17/3281 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04L67/131

Abstract: One aspect of the disclosure relates to providing dynamic and static contest prize allocation based on in-game achievement of a user in an online game in order to encourage players to continue to purchase items to improve their tournament metrics even if they may be unable to improve their tournament rank. For example, calculation of a dynamic prize may comprise for rank x, the player may gain 1 prize unit for every y Glory gained (when Glory may be the measured by the tournament). The y value may increase for lower ranks achieved in the tournament.

公开(公告)号：US11648465B1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-16

申请号：US17193100

申请日：2021-03-05

Applicant: James Andrew Aman ,  Jeffrey Paul Cheesman

Inventor： James Andrew Aman ,  Jeffrey Paul Cheesman

IPC: A63F13/25 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F13/218 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/216 ,  A63F13/30 ,  A63G31/16 ,  A63G33/00 ,  A63G31/00 ,  A63F13/50 ,  G08C17/02

CPC classification number: A63F13/25 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/216 ,  A63F13/218 ,  A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/50 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63G31/00 ,  A63G31/16 ,  A63G33/00 ,  G08C17/02

Abstract: A gaming device for use with an interactive gaming system. The gaming device is carried by a gamer and provides a direct view of a destination part, where the destination is implementing the gaming system. The destination part may emit or reflect light comprising a combination of public images and video perceivable with the naked eye and private images and video only perceivable when looking through the gaming device. The device comprises front and back facing cameras for capturing images transmitted to the gaming system as game information, where the back facing camera is optionally adapted to filter the emitted or reflected light to reveal the private image. Further adaptations allow for the spatially aligned augmentation of the direct view with respect to a destination part. The gaming device is usable as a summoning device including providing movement directions to the gamer with respect to the destination parts.

公开(公告)号：US11577162B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-14

申请号：US16865511

申请日：2020-05-04

Applicant: Digital Gaming Corporation Limited

Inventor： Andrew Thomas Slabbert ,  Terence Marc Stievenart ,  Fredrik Nilsson

IPC: G07F17/32 ,  A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/55

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus related to enhancing player experiences at gaming locations via player journey actions. A server computing device can receive one or more gaming location events related to one or more electronic gaming machines. Each of the electronic gaming machine(s) can be configured to play one or more wager games. At least one of the gaming location events can be associated with a particular wager game. The server computing device can determine one or more player journey actions based on the gaming location events, where the one or more player journey actions instruct at least one electronic gaming machine to perform one or more actions related to the gaming location events. The server computing device can send the gaming location events.

公开(公告)号：US20220387899A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-08

申请号：US17888121

申请日：2022-08-15

Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.

Inventor： Andrea Vaccari ,  Pooya Karimian ,  Lei Guang

IPC: A63F13/87 ,  A63F13/35 ,  H04L51/046 ,  A63F13/795 ,  A63F13/92 ,  H04M1/72436 ,  H04L51/52 ,  H04L51/216 ,  H04L67/53 ,  H04L67/131 ,  A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/79 ,  H04L51/02 ,  H04L51/063

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes analyzing first in-game actions of a first user playing a game via a messaging application; sending a first customized message in a message thread, the first customized message including at least a first preview of a gameplay of the first user, first performance metrics of the first user in the game, and a first interactive action button for a second user to take a first action with respect to the game; analyzing second in-game actions of the second user playing the game via the messaging application; and sending a second customized message in the message thread, the second customized message including at least a second preview of the gameplay of the second user, second performance metrics of the second user in the game, and a second interactive action button for the first user to take a second action with respect to the game.

公开(公告)号：US20220362670A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-17

申请号：US17878755

申请日：2022-08-01

Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.

Inventor： Takahiro OTOMO

IPC: A63F13/5375 ,  A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/69 ,  A63F13/79

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.

公开(公告)号：US11498006B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-15

申请号：US17369297

申请日：2021-07-07

Applicant: Zynga Inc.

Inventor： John Carlton Ware ,  Christopher Vance Haire ,  John vanSuchtelen ,  Michael Waite ,  Alexandros Ntoulas ,  Jeffrey Zakrzewski ,  Oliver Attila Tabay ,  Yuko Yamazaki ,  Paul Yih Yarng Chong ,  Sudhish Iyer ,  Xuyang (Amy) Tan ,  Ameya Vilankar ,  Gaurav Narang

IPC: A63F13/67 ,  A63F13/537 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/798

Abstract: A system, a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions, and a computer-implemented method to adjust twitch response and collision determination to a player's skill level is provided. Gameplay information of a computer-implemented game is accessed. The gameplay information including input information indicating one or more attributes of gameplay input provided by the player. A gameplay skill level of the player of the player is estimated based on the one or more gameplay input attributes. Based on the estimated gameplay skill level of the player, respective values of one or more gameplay parameters that determine on-screen behavior of virtual in-game objects are modified, thereby a gameplay difficulty level is modified.