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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2018
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Pritpal Singh Panesar, London, GB;
Mohammed Mansoor Nusrat, London, GB;
Nicholas Anthony Edward Ryan, London, GB;
Hugh Alexander Dinsdale Spencer, London, GB;
Sony Interactive Entertainement Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A user analysis method of assisting a current user within the videogame, includes: obtaining an indication that a hint is required for a scenario within the videogame; and if so, providing a hint to the current user relating to successful behaviour in the scenario; where providing a hint comprises: obtaining one or more indicators of behaviour for the scenario within the videogame, a difference detecting step comprising detecting a respective difference between the one or more obtained indicators of behaviour and corresponding data derived from a corpus of measured indicators of behaviour previously generated from a subset of other users detected to have a predetermined level of success in the scenario, and the providing step comprising providing a hint to the current user indicating a change in one or more behaviours that reduces a respective difference in the one or more measured indicators of behaviour between the current user and the subset of other users detected to have a predetermined level of success in the scenario.