US 10,307,680 B1Granted

On-demand rich media content distribution responsive to on-line gamer position and status

AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.

InventorJoseph B. Weinman, Jr.

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Abstract

A game system for running a game with access to rich media content for at least one player includes one or more gaming consoles that are connected to a network with a content server that is in communication with the gaming console. The content server provides rich media content through a network for use with the user-play game. A content information receiver, disposed in the gaming console and connected to the network, receives the rich media content provided from the content server. A compositor is used to composite the rich media content with the game, and a game executer, that is provided in the gaming console, executes the game while involving the at least one player.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A game system, comprising:

a. a content server with rich media content connected to a network, wherein the rich media content includes rich media clips;
b. a gaming console executing a game connected to the network, wherein the gaming console comprises:
i. a receiver to receive the rich media content;
and
ii. a game executer to execute the game;
c. a compositor to modify the rich media content and composite graphics or audio generated by the game with the modified rich media content;
and
d. a cache to store the rich media content in anticipation of a player's next possible action;
wherein the gaming console queries the content server for rich media content by sending a request including a player's in-game characteristics generated based on gameplay, wherein the in-game characteristics comprise a player's in-game position and a player's in-game attribute, wherein the content server includes computer instructions to evaluate the request to identify, during game play, a plurality of rich media clips stored on the content server based on the player's in-game characteristics, wherein the content server selects a first version of a rich media clip having a first resolution from the identified plurality of the rich media clips based on the first resolution corresponding to a distance between the player's in-game position and an in-game object, and to stream the first version of the rich media clip to the gaming console.

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Facts

Application: 11/237,255Filed 28 Sep 2005 · us provisional application
Priority: 8 Nov 2004
Granted: 4 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

A63F 13/60
Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions: generating or modifying game content before or…
A63F 13/61
Generating or modifying game content before or while executing the game program, e.g. authoring tools specially adapted for game development or…:…
A63F 13/35
Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection…: details…
A63F 13/655
Automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition: by importing photos, e.g. of the player

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Application60/625,992Us provisional application · filed 8 Nov 2004
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