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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
May. 22, 2023
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Christopher William Henderson, London, GB;
David Erwan Damien Uberti, London, GB;
Michael Richard Reynolds, Southampton, GB;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of executing a multiplayer video game includes: connecting a game client to a game server via a communication network; for each player, executing an instance of a game on the game server to generate a game environment; synchronizing game data between multiple instances of the game to link the generated game environments; transmitting user inputs to the game server to initiate interactive gameplay; for each player, generating a video stream of the linked game environment from the player's perspective; and mixing the video streams for individual players into split screen view during a split screen mode.