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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:
Aug. 15, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 01, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Warren Benedetto, San Mateo, CA (US);

Landon Noss, San Mateo, CA (US);

Adil Sherwani, San Mateo, CA (US);

Akihiko Kusumoto, San Mateo, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/87 (2014.01); A63F 13/216 (2014.01); A63F 13/31 (2014.01); A63F 13/58 (2014.01); A63F 13/50 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/87 (2014.09); A63F 13/216 (2014.09); A63F 13/31 (2014.09); A63F 13/50 (2014.09); A63F 13/58 (2014.09); A63F 2300/308 (2013.01); A63F 2300/69 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for gaming. The method including receiving location based information of game play of a user playing a gaming application as displayed on a first computing device, wherein the location based information is made with reference to a location of a character in the game play of the user in a gaming world associated with the gaming application. The method including aggregating location based information of a plurality of game plays of a plurality of users playing the gaming application. The method including generating contextually relevant information for the location of the character based on the location based information of the plurality of game plays. The method including generating a companion interface including the contextually relevant information. The method including sending the companion interface to a second computing device associated with the user for display concurrent with the game play of the user.


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