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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2012
Andrew Buchanan Gault, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Rui Filipe Andrade Pereira, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
David Perry, Monarch Beach, CA (US);
Brian K. F. Lau, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Kelvin Michael Yong, Irvine, CA (US);
Claes Christian Rickeby, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Ryan Hamilton Breed, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Eleazar T. Galano, Iii, Glendale, CA (US);
Austin English, College Station, TX (US);
Andrew Buchanan Gault, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Rui Filipe Andrade Pereira, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
David Perry, Monarch Beach, CA (US);
Brian K. F. Lau, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Kelvin Michael Yong, Irvine, CA (US);
Claes Christian Rickeby, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Ryan Hamilton Breed, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Eleazar T. Galano, III, Glendale, CA (US);
Austin English, College Station, TX (US);
Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A video server is configured to provide streaming video to players of computer games over a computing network. The video server can provided video of different games to different players simultaneously. This is accomplished by rendering several video streams in parallel using a single GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). The output of the GPU is provided to graphics processing pipelines that are each associated with a specific client/player and are dynamically allocated as needed. A client qualifier may be used to assure that only clients capable of presenting the streaming video to a player at a minimum level of quality receive the video stream. Video frames provided by the video server optionally include overlays added to the output of the GPU. These overlays can include voice data received from another game player. These overlays may be used to prevent presentation of non-allowed input controls.