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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:
Jan. 24, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Hideo Kojima, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/00 (2014.01); A63F 13/57 (2014.01); A63F 13/56 (2014.01); A63F 13/5378 (2014.01); A63F 13/211 (2014.01); A63F 13/35 (2014.01); A63F 13/493 (2014.01); A63F 13/63 (2014.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); A63F 13/87 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/57 (2014.09); A63F 13/211 (2014.09); A63F 13/35 (2014.09); A63F 13/493 (2014.09); A63F 13/5378 (2014.09); A63F 13/56 (2014.09); A63F 13/63 (2014.09); G06F 9/54 (2013.01); A63F 13/87 (2014.09); A63F 2300/105 (2013.01); A63F 2300/51 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5533 (2013.01); A63F 2300/6009 (2013.01); A63F 2300/64 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for connecting game plays between different players playing a video game. The method includes determining that a first character has accomplished a mission within a region of a virtual environment of the video game, wherein the first character is controlled by a first player playing the video game in a first game play. The method includes opening access by the first character to a regional inter-game communication medium in response to accomplishing the task. The method includes generating first data in the first game play. The method includes cross-pollinating the first data using the regional inter-game communication medium across a plurality of virtual environments of a plurality of asynchronous game plays of a plurality of players.


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