Valve Corporation

Pierre-Loup Miguel Griffais

Walter Petersen

Lucas Allen Whipple

Scott Dalton

Jeffrey Walter Mucha

Eric Judson VanWyk

John K Ikeda

Eric James Hope

Claire Michelle Gottschalk

Jeffrey Peter Bellinghausen

Jeremy Slocum

Jeffrey Scott Keyzer

Carl Samuel Conlee, Iv

Benoit Collette

Amy Narae Kim

Client machines running game executables of a video game(s) may utilize a file system proxy component that is configured to track read operations made by the game executable during a game session, to generate access data based on the tracked read operations, and to report the access data to a remote system. This telemetry approach allows the remote system to collect access data reported by multiple client machines, to catalogue the access data according to client system configuration, and to analyze the access data to generate data that is usable by client machines to implement various game-related features including, without limitation, 'instant play' of video games, discarding of unused blocks of game data to free up local memory resources, and/or local prefetching of game data for reducing latency during gameplay.

Tracking file system read operations for instant play of video games, and for client-side discarding and prefetching of game data

Described herein are controllers with sensor-rich controls for enhanced controller functionality. An example control may include a pressure sensor that is configured to detect an amount of a force of a press on a cover of the control based at least in part on a proximity of a metal layer to the pressure sensor. This control may further include a touch sensor for detecting an object contacting the cover of the control. Additional embodiments disclose, among other things, integrated trackpads and D-pads, as well as backlighting features that indicate a functional state of the controller.

Controller with sensor-rich controls

Electronic device

Client machines are configured to compile shaders during execution of a program (e.g., a video game) that renders graphics on a display. These client machines may upload information&#x2014;including a hardware configuration of the client machine, an application identifier (ID) of the program, and a set of shader IDs for compiled shaders&#x2014;to a remote computing system, which catalogues the shader IDs, selectively requests compiled shader code from one or more of the client machines, and selectively prepares the compiled shader code for redistribution. Thereafter, a requesting client machine with a matching hardware configuration may receive compiled shader code from the remote system for a particular program, and may precache the compiled shader code for use during program execution.

Distributing shaders between client machines for precaching

Controller

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Mercer Island, WA, United States of America

Pierre-Loup Miguel Griffais