Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Atsushi Fuse

Steven Patrick Trombetta

Nobukazu Koyama

Benedikt Neuenfeldt

Michinari Kohno

Naoki Nagano

Katsushi Fujii

Jun Kaneko

Satoru Kamoto

Charles Wayne Denison, Ii

Mayumi Shinoda

Akihiko Kusumoto

Mischa G Stephens

Daniel S Hiatt

Adil Ahmed Sherwani

Keiji Yuzawa

Shogo Suzuki

Derek Andrew Parker

Tomohiro Katsube

Parsa Shirazi

Naoshi Suzuki

Takamasa Iwade

Masato Yokobori

Takafumi Masuda

Hiroshi Iwasaki

Junichi Ootani

Junya Noda

Charles Wayne Den Ison

Charles Wayne Denison Ii

A game image display unit displays a game image. A system image display unit superimposes, onto the game image, and displays a system image according to an operation by a user. A selection area display unit displays an area for selection of participating, as a spectator, in a session for a multiplayer game.

Information processing device and image display method

A method for launching interactive content including associating one or more templates with a corresponding one or more activities of an interactive content title and transmitting the one or more templates to a platform server. The method includes selecting and displaying a set of templates generated from the one or more templates received on a user device. The method includes launching the activity in the interactive title based on a template selected by a user.

Dynamic interfaces for launching direct gameplay

A system and method for making context-based action suggestions is provided. Data regarding one or more activities may be stored in memory. Such activities may be associated with an interactive content title and one or more actions. Information regarding a current user status for each activity may be received by a server. A set of one or more activities available to a user based on the current user status may be identified. One or more actions may be filtered based on availability to the user and the current user status for each identified activity. A subset of the filtered actions may be displayed.

Context-based action suggestions

A system and method for generating an integrated interface is provided. A user dataset of a user, a peer dataset of a peer user, and interactive titles available to the user are stored in memory. A network interface establishes a session with a user device associated with the first user. A processor executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor constructs a group of interactive activities based on the sets of one or more activities of each interactive title, a user presence based on the first user dataset, and a peer presence based on the peer dataset and displays the set of interactive activities, the user presence, and the peer presence on an integrated interface displayed on the first user device.

Integrated interfaces for dynamic user experiences

A system and method for initiating a multiuser session is provided. A plurality of multiuser activities and a plurality of activities templates may be stored in memory. A user profile for a user and a peer profile for each of one or more peers may be received. The user and the one or more peers may be members of an initial session. A user selection specifying one of the filtered multiuser activities may be received. An activity template associated with the selected activity may be retrieved. Such retrieved activity template may provide activity requirements required to launch the selected activity. A multiuser session may be established that includes session requirements based on at least the activity requirements. The user and at least one peer from the initial session may be added to the multiuser session. The selected activity may be launched in the multiuser session.

Initiating multiuser sessions

The present invention is intended to provide a data providing system including a data providing apparatus having provision image data generating means for generating provision image data of a provision image which is reusable by inlaying a predetermined advertisement image into a predetermined template image into which a predetermined user image can be inlaid as superimposed upon the predetermined advertisement image and providing-side transmitting means for transmitting the provision image data via a network.

Data providing system, data providing apparatus and method, data acquisition system and method, and program storage medium

The present invention is intended to provide a data providing system including a data providing apparatus having provision image data generating means for generating provision image data of a provision image which is reusable by inlaying a predetermined advertisement image into a predetermined template image into which a predetermined user image can be inlaid as superimposed upon the predetermined advertisement image and providing-side transmitting means for transmitting the provision image data via a network. The data providing system also includes a data acquisition apparatus having acquiring-side receiving means for receiving the provision image data from the data providing apparatus via the network, transmission image data generating means for generating transmission image data of a transmission image for displaying the provision image based on the provision image data onto a predetermined display means, inlaying the predetermined user image as superimposed upon the predetermined advertisement image into the template image of the provision image, and displaying the predetermined user image together with the template image in preference to the predetermined advertisement image until the predetermined user image is detached from the template image, and acquiring-side transmitting means for transmitting the transmission image data to a predetermined destination via the network.

This invention relates to a service providing system and a service providing method for allowing users to receive a service from a service server without having to submit their security-critical information to that server. A CE devicerequests provision of the service by transmitting authentication information such as a device ID to a surrogate authentication serverThe surrogate authentication serverauthenticates the CE devicebased on the authentication information and transmits a result of the authentication to the service serverIn turn, the service serverprovides the CE devicewith the requested service based on the result of the authentication received from the surrogate authentication serverThe CE devicethen uses the service provided by the service serverThis system can be applied advantageously to network-based marketing systems.

Service providing system and method

A data providing system including a data providing apparatus having a provision image data generating device for generating data of a provision image that is reusable by inlaying an advertisement image into a template image into which a user image is inlaid and a providing-side transmitting device for transmitting the provision image data via a network. A data acquisition apparatus has an acquiring-side receiving device for receiving the provision image data via the network, a transmission image data generating device for generating data of a transmission image for displaying the provision image onto a display device, inlaying the user image into the template image of the provision image, and displaying the user image with the template image in preference to the advertisement image until the user image is detached from the template image, and a acquiring-side transmitting device for transmitting the transmission image data to a destination.

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Tokyo, Japan

Atsushi Fuse