Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC

Ol2, Inc.

Emily Adams

Pierpaolo Baccichet

Nico Benitez

Jan Chong

Matt Piotrowski

Collin Carey

Ryan Cook

Joshuah Vincent

Paul Marshall

Kevin Koleckar

Stephen G Perlman

Michael Toy

Kevin Kolecker

Bryce Donahue

A system, method, and graphical user interface for playing games and/or executing applications on a tablet-based client. One embodiment of a graphical user interface (GUI) for playing a video game on a tablet-based client device comprises: a virtual controller rendered on a display of the tablet computer, the virtual controller substantially mimicking the control provided by a thumb stick of a physical game controller and providing omnidirectional, free-form movement in a synchronous direction in which a user moves a finger on the display of the tablet-based client.

System, method, and graphical user interface for controlling an application executing on a server

System, method, and graphical user interface for controlling an application on a tablet

A touch-screen apparatus and method are described for controlling an online video game. For example, one embodiment of a touch-screen apparatus comprises: a touch-screen display for displaying images and receiving user input in response to a user touching the touch screen display; a network interface for establishing a network connection with a gaming server executing a video game in response to user input from the apparatus, the gaming server compressing video output from the video game to generate interactive compressed streaming video, and transmitting the interactive compressed streaming video generated by the video game over the network connection to the touch-screen apparatus; a memory for storing program code and a processor for processing the program code to generate a touch-screen graphical user interface (GUI) comprising: a plurality of user input elements providing user input in response to the user selecting the user input elements on the touch screen display; wherein the user input is transmitted from the touch-screen apparatus to the gaming server to control the execution of the video game.

Graphical user interface, system and method for implementing a game controller on a touch-screen device

A touch-screen apparatus comprises: a touch-screen display for displaying images and receiving user input in response to a user touching the touch screen display; a network interface for establishing a network connection with a gaming server executing a video game in response to user input from the apparatus, the gaming server compressing video output from the video game to generate interactive compressed streaming video, and transmitting the interactive compressed streaming video generated by the video game over the network connection to the touch-screen apparatus; a touch-screen graphical user interface (GUI) comprising: a plurality of user input elements providing user input in response to the user selecting the user input elements on the touch screen display; wherein the user input is transmitted from the touch-screen apparatus to the gaming server to control the execution of the video game.

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Emily Adams