Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC

Vinod Tandon

Jake Devore

Gary M Zalewski

Yasutaka Miwa

Mohammed Aafaq Khan

Ramana Bangalore Prakash

Christopher Reese

Scott Kirkland

Hai Jie Hewu

Mark Fortuna

Detecting lag switch cheating in a gaming network is disclosed. Data packets are received from a client. The data packets have tracking data including at least one of a sequence number and a time stamp. The tracking data is monitored to determine that a cheat-detection event has occurred.

Detecting lag switch cheating in game

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

A gaming peripheral for use during play of an electronic video game includes a releasably engageable release element which disengages in accordance with game play. Disengagement of the release element is selectably controllable and based on receipt of an electronic trigger signal transmitted from a gaming console on which the game is being played. The release element is engaged by a player applying a manual force to the peripheral.

Gaming peripheral including releasably engageable release element

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Vinod Tandon