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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. 10, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2021
Applicant:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited, London, GB;

Inventors:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 (2006.01); A63F 13/44 (2014.01); A63F 13/45 (2014.01); A63F 13/79 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/44 (2014.09); A63F 13/45 (2014.09); A63F 13/79 (2014.09); A63F 2300/63 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of estimating a time to complete a task for a user of a computer comprises: identifying a target task for which a time is to be estimated for completing the task, determining as a start point the completion of the last task completed by the user on the computer, obtaining, from data relating to a corpus of users, data for at least a subset of those users who completed the last task completed by the user before also completing the target task wherein the obtained data comprises timing data, calculating a representative time from the start point to the completion of the target task, based upon the obtained data, and implementing a predetermined action responsive to the calculated representative time.


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