Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Mark Fortuna

Yasutaka Miwa

Mohammed Aafaq Khan

Ramana Bangalore Prakash

Christopher Reese

Vinod Tandon

Hai Jie Hewu

Scott Kirkland

Using persistent party rooms, including: initializing, via a computing device, a global array according to a hierarchical server architecture; determining, via the computing device, whether or not to create a new persistent party room or to join a previously bookmarked persistent party room; creating, via the computing device, the new persistent party room within a position indexed in the global array; and joining, via the computing device, the previously bookmarked persistent party room by searching for the previously bookmarked party room utilizing the global array.

Persistent party rooms

Growing community of inventors

Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA, United States of America

Mark Fortuna