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Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2021
Applicant:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Takayuki Ishida, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/35 (2014.01); A63F 13/798 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/35 (2014.09); A63F 13/798 (2014.09);
Abstract

A play time acquisition unitacquires a play time of an activity by a plurality of players from event data indicating a start of the activity and event data indicating an end of the activity that are recorded in an event data recording unit. A distribution generation unitdivides the plurality of players who have executed the activity into a plurality of groups according to the play time. A class sorting unitsorts a player into any one of a plurality of classes according to the skill value of the player. A percentage derivation unitderives a percentage occupied by the players of each class in each of the plurality of groups. A type determination unitdetermines the type of the activity on the basis of the derived percentage.


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