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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:
May. 02, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 11, 2021
Applicant:

Valve Corporation, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventor:

Tucker Jensen Spofford, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Valve Corporation, Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/2145 (2014.01); A63F 13/218 (2014.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); A63F 13/98 (2014.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01); A63F 13/24 (2014.01); A63F 13/25 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/2145 (2014.09); A63F 13/218 (2014.09); A63F 13/24 (2014.09); A63F 13/25 (2014.09); A63F 13/98 (2014.09); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01);
Abstract

A controller system for surfacing selectable elements on a display of the controller along with game content associated with a video game is described. In an example, a user may provide touch input on the display, and, in response, a game content window that is presenting the game content may scale and/or move to a new position on the display in order to create space on the display for presenting one or more selectable elements outside of the scaled and/or repositioned game content window. The surfaced element(s) may be selectable to cause performance of a game-related action. In this manner, the selectable element(s) do(es) not occlude the game content, and the user may interact with both the game content and the selectable element(s) presented on the display.


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