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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2015
Sony Interactive Entertainment America Llc, San Mateo, CA (US);
John Speck, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stephen G. Perlman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are described for retaining system state of an online application such as a video game. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: executing a application on a server in response to user input from a client; transmitting video generated by the application over a network connection from the server to the client; detecting that the network connection has become unusable or impaired; responsively pausing the execution of the application from a current point of execution; and resuming the execution of the application from the current point of execution upon detecting that the network connection has become usable or unimpaired.