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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2022
Applicant:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Steven Osman, San Mateo, CA (US);
Olga Rudi, San Mateo, CA (US);
Mahdi Azmandian, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jorge Arroyo Palacios, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/49 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/49 (2014.09);
Abstract
A player who is interrupted during play of a computer simulation such as a computer game and must attend to other matters (colloquially referred to herein as being 'away from keyboard' or “AFK”) is assisted in three phases. A first type of assistance is rendered when entering AFK, as in, at the start of the interruption. A second type of assistance is rendered during AFK, while the player is away. A third type of assistance is rendered when the player returns from AFK to the computer simulation.