Predictive Instant Play For An Application Over The Cloud

A method, comprising:

• detecting user interaction at a game title of a game provided on a cloud gaming site;
• pre-loading an instance of the game on a game console of a cloud game server available to the cloud gaming site, when a length of the user interaction detected at the game title of the game exceeds a pre-defined threshold time;
• assigning the pre-loaded instance of the game to the user, in response to the user interaction, the assigning causes a portion of informative content for the game to be provided for rendering on a client device of the user;
• and
• monitoring the user interaction at the instance of the game to define usage history for the game, the usage history related to one or more games is used to predict usage demand for each of the one or more games and to manage the instances of the one or more games, wherein the operations are performed by a processor of the cloud game server.

A system, comprising:

• a cloud gaming site communicatively connected to a client device over a network, the cloud gaming site configured to provide an instance of a select one of a plurality of games to the client device, in response to user interaction detected at a game title of the select one of the plurality of games available on the cloud gaming site, the cloud gaming site including a game pre-loader module that is executed on a processor in the cloud gaming site and is configured to,
• detect the user interaction at the game title of the select one of the plurality of games available at the cloud gaming site;
• identify a data center that hosts the select one of the plurality of games;
• signal a cloud game server within the identified data center to pre-load an instance of the select one of the plurality of games on a game console available on the cloud game server, when the user interaction detected at the game title exceeds a pre-defined threshold time;
• assign the instance of the select one of the plurality of games to a user, in response to the detected user interaction, the assigning of the instance results in a portion of informative content for the select one of the plurality of games to be returned to the client device for rendering to the user;
• and
• monitor the user interaction at the assigned instance to define usage history for the game, wherein the usage history is used to manage instances of the plurality of games on the cloud game server.