Cloud gaming device handover

A method executed by one or more gaming systems, comprising:

• establishing a session of game play of a game for a primary client device at a first gaming system, in response to a play request from the primary client device to play the game;
• streaming game play of the game from the primary client device to a second gaming system, wherein said streaming further includes,
• detecting one or more input devices that are associated with the second gaming system;
• identifying a profile of each of the input devices associated with the second gaming system, wherein the profile identifies device attributes used for qualifying the one or more input devices for playing the game via the second gaming system, wherein the detecting and identifying of the profile of the one or more input devices performed in background;
• processing a handover of the game play of the game from the primary client device to the second gaming system, wherein the processing includes,
• (a) pausing game play of the game at the first gaming system,
• (b) ceasing control of the game play via the primary client device, and
• (c) enabling control of the game play via one of the input devices associated with the second gaming system, the first gaming system enabling viewing of the game play while control of the game play is managed by the second gaming system.

A cloud gaming system for identifying options of secondary client devices used for a device handover of game play of a game, the cloud gaming system includes,

• an application server configured to execute a plurality of games, the application server including,
• a game execution engine that is configured to identify game code for the game selected for playing and executing the game code to generate video frames for the game;
• a client device profiling module that is configured to establish communication connection with one or more secondary client devices identified to be local to a primary client device, in order to exchange information, the information exchanged is used to identify device attributes of each of the one or more secondary client devices, wherein the device attributes of a secondary client device is used to generate a profile of the secondary client device that is used to qualify the secondary client device for playing the game based on device capabilities obtained from evaluating the device attributes included in the profile, wherein the client device profiling module identifies the secondary client device and generates the profile in background;
• a handover manager that is configured to,
• identify select ones of the secondary client devices that are qualified for playing the game and to provide a list of the select ones of the secondary client devices with a handover option to the primary client device;
• receive selection of a particular secondary client device from the list, the selection causing the handover manager to send a signal with instruction to the game execution engine to pause streaming video frames to the primary client device and to save a game state of the game;
• provide a resume option for rendering on the particular secondary client device;
• and
• receive a resume request from the particular secondary client device, the resume request causing the handover manager to instruct the game execution engine to retrieve game state and resume streaming of video frames of the game to the particular secondary client device.

A client device configured to interact with a server of a cloud gaming system to identify options of secondary client devices for a device handover of game play of a game initiated by the client device, the client device comprising:

• memory configured to store streaming video frame data provided by the server during game play of the game;
• a processor configured to process the streaming video frame data and presenting the streaming video frame data on one or more device components of the client device;
• a switching module configured to,
• discover one or more secondary client devices that are local to the client device, by engaging one or more device discovery protocols implemented in the client device and the one or more secondary client devices;
• forward a request to the server of the cloud gaming system to profile the one or more secondary client devices, wherein the profiling is used to evaluate device capabilities for qualifying the one or more secondary client devices for game play of the game;
• receive a handover option with a list of one or more secondary client devices that are qualified for game play, from the server, the list of one or more secondary client devices presented on a user interface at the client device for user selection;
• and
• forward user selection of a particular secondary client device to the server, the user selection causes pausing of streaming video frame data to the client device, wherein the discover and generation of profile of the one or more secondary client devices are done in background.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having programming code, which when executed by a server of a cloud gaming system provides a method to identify options of secondary client devices that can be used for device handover of game play to one of the secondary client devices, the computer-readable medium comprising:

• programming code for establishing a session of game play of a game for a primary client device, in response to a play request received from the primary client device to play the game, the establishing a session includes executing game code for the game and streaming video frames to the primary client device;
• programming code for receiving a request to generate a profile of one or more secondary client devices that are identified to be local to the primary client device, the profile generated for a secondary client device is configured to identify device attributes for the secondary client device, wherein discovery of the secondary client device and generation of the profile are performed in background, the device attributes in the profile evaluated to determine that the secondary client device is qualified for the game play of the game;
• programming code for providing a handover option to the primary client device during the game play, the handover option is configured to identify one or more of the secondary client devices having device capabilities for playing the game, based on evaluation of the device attributes included in the profile;
• programming code for receiving a selection from the primary client device, of a particular secondary client device identified by the handover option, the selection is configured to pause streaming video frames to the primary client device and save a game state for the game, the pause is further configured to provide an option to resume play of the game on the particular secondary client device;
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• programming code for receiving a resume request from the particular secondary client device, to continue the play of the game on the particular secondary client device, the resume request configured to resume game play by accessing the game state for the game to continue streaming video frames to the particular secondary client device.