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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2024
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Toshiya Ikenaga, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus provide for at least one of: (i) displaying a list of images on a display of the user terminal device to the user, where each image within the list of images operates as a respective hyperlink to launch the game from a respective play point in the video of the previously played content of the game program, and (ii) each respective image operates such that the user may activate the respective hyperlink using at least one input device, while the respective image is being displayed to the user, and the activation of the respective hyperlink causes the execution request to include information regarding the respective play point in the video of the previously played content of the game program, and the user clicks on the respective hyperlink while viewing the respective image on the display on which the video showing a play content that has been played by the user himself/herself is being played.