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US 10,765,955 B2Granted
Video game notifications for streaming games
AssigneeActivision Publishing, Inc.
InventorsJosiah Eatedali, Robert Schonfeld
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Abstract
Users may request notification of occurrence of video game play events. Upon occurrence of the video game play events, the users may be provided access to live streams of play of the video games. In some embodiments the video game play events may occur across play of a multitude of video games using a multitude of game hosts, including in some embodiments different video games, and play of the video games may be at unscheduled times.
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A method of providing notifications to users of occurrence of video game play events, comprising:
- receiving, by at least one server of one or more servers, a plurality of requests for notification of occurrence of video game play events from a plurality of devices of a plurality of requestors, each of the requests for notification specifying a video game play event and including an identification of the requestor making the request;
- storing, by at least one server of the one or more servers, information of the requests for notification of occurrence of video game play events;
- determining, by at least one server of the one or more servers, whether information regarding play of a plurality of video games on a plurality of game servers matches the information of the requests for notification of occurrence of video game play events;
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- in response to determining the existence of a match, providing, by at least one server of the one or more servers, a notification comprising an identifier of the matched video game play event to particular ones of the plurality of devices corresponding to requestors making a request for the matched video game play event.
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A method of providing notifications to users of video games in particular states, comprising:
- receiving information indicative of video game states for a plurality of video games from at least one game server during a period of time during which the video games are being played;
- receiving requests from a plurality of devices of a plurality of users for video games being played that match requestor criteria;
- determining, using a notification server, whether the information indicative of video game states for any of the plurality of video games match the requestor criteria of any of the requests;
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- providing a notification to particular ones of the plurality of devices of the video games being played that match the predetermined criteria, wherein the notification allows the particular ones of the plurality of devices to view live streams of the video games being played.
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A method of providing notifications to users of occurrence of video game play events, comprising:
- receiving, by at least one server of one or more servers, a plurality of requests for notification of occurrence of video game play events from a plurality of devices of a plurality of requestors, each of the requests for notification specifying a video game play event and including an identification of the requestor making the request;
- storing, by at least one server of the one or more servers, information of the requests for notification of occurrence of video game play events on a notification server;
- determining, by at least one server of the one or more servers, a number of the requests for notification specifying play of a particular video game by particular game players as the video game play event;
- providing, by at least one server of the one or more servers, the number of requests for notification of play of the particular video game by the particular game players to a matchmaking server or module, for use in matching the particular game players for play of the particular video game;
- determining, by at least one server of the one or more servers, whether information of the one or more servers regarding play of a plurality of video games matches the information of the requests for notification of occurrence of video game play events;
- in response to determining the existence of a match, providing, by at least one server of the one or more servers, a notification comprising an identifier of the matched video game play event to particular ones of the plurality of devices corresponding to requestors making a request for the matched video game play event.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.