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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2018
Applicant:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Simon Brown, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/48 (2014.01); A63F 13/533 (2014.01); A63F 13/69 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/48 (2014.09); A63F 13/533 (2014.09); A63F 13/69 (2014.09); A63F 2300/308 (2013.01); A63F 2300/609 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of launching a game application includes: providing a game application launch object to an operating system, providing data specifying a plurality of modes of operation for the game application in association with the game application launch object, providing a user interface in which at least a subset of the plurality of modes of operation are presented to a user when that user performs a predetermined interaction with the game application launch object, receiving a user selection indicating a selected mode of operation, and launching the game application into a playable game state that is dependent upon the selected mode of operation.


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