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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:
Feb. 08, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 12, 2019
Applicant:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Llc, San Mateo, CA (US);

Inventors:

Steven Trombetta, San Mateo, CA (US);

James Fairbairn, San Mateo, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/86 (2014.01); A63F 13/35 (2014.01); A63F 13/537 (2014.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/86 (2014.09); A63F 13/35 (2014.09); A63F 13/537 (2014.09); H04L 65/4076 (2013.01); H04N 21/4758 (2013.01); H04N 21/4781 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); H04N 21/4882 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multi-user system hosts a game session over a communication network. The game session includes a plurality of media streams that show one or more views of live game play for the game session. The multi-user system further assigns a spectator value to each media stream, updates one or more spectator values based on user inputs received during the game session, selects, for one or more time periods of the game session, one media stream to broadcast based on the spectator value assigned to the one media stream for the one or more time periods, and broadcasts the one media stream over the communication network.


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