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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2019
Sony Interactive Entertainment Llc;
Victor Octav Suba Miura, Foster City, CA (US);
David Perry, Monarch Beach, CA (US);
Philippe Dias, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Kelvin Yong, Irvine, CA (US);
Nathan Gary, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for enabling multiplayer gameplay includes: executing, by a cloud gaming server, a first user's gameplay of a video game, wherein executing the first user's gameplay includes processing input received over a network from a first controller device that is associated with the first user to direct gameplay events occurring in the first user's gameplay; presenting, over the network, a live video feed of the first user's gameplay to a remote second user; processing a request for the second user to join the first user's gameplay; initiating gameplay by the second user in the first user's gameplay, wherein initiating gameplay by the second user includes processing input received over the network from a second controller device that is associated with the second user to direct at least some of the gameplay events occurring in the first user's gameplay.