User Save Data Migration Based on Location Information

A cloud gaming system, comprising:

• an application server within the cloud gaming system configured to service requests to access a plurality of games for user interaction, the requests received from a user account of a user, the application server of the cloud gaming system including,
• a data center manager configured to,
• determine a change in geo location of the user from a first geo location to a second geo location;
• analyze use history of the user for the plurality of games to determine usage trend of the user in relation to the plurality of games;
• identify a new data center in a vicinity of the second geo location, the new data center identified based on the usage trend;
• and
• a save data migration manager configured to,
• determine a portion of save data of the user related to select ones of the plurality of games, based on usage trend of the user;
• generate a signal to a data center in the first geo location to migrate the portion of the save data of the user to the new data center, prior to receiving access request from a user account of the user at the second geo location, the signal generated in anticipation of likely access of the portion of the save data by the user from the second geo location as defined by the usage trend of the user,
• wherein the portion of the save data is made available to the select ones of the plurality of games in order to provide current game state,
• wherein the cloud gaming system is defined by a plurality of game servers within a plurality of data centers that are accessible over a network to client devices of users that are registered with the cloud gaming system, wherein a game server at the new data center is configured to perform pre-loading of the select ones of the plurality of games in preparation of making instances of the select ones of the plurality of games available for instant game play,
• wherein the game server at the new data center, in response to receiving selection of game play of a game from the select ones of the plurality of games from one of the client devices, compresses a stream of video frames generated for the game using an encoder, and forwards encoded video frames to the client device,
• the client device is configured to use a decoder to decompress the encoded video frames and render images on a display screen of the client device, and to supply input to the game server to drive interactivity of the game, wherein the compressing enables the video frames of the game play to be streamed to the client device with reduced latency.

A client device, comprising:

• a processor for executing one or more client-side applications, wherein the client-side applications are configured to interact over a network with corresponding server-side applications hosted by one or more servers of application hosting systems, the client-side applications used to provide user interactions for updating the server-side applications;
• a client-side processing module configured to interact with a cloud gaming system, the client-side processing module is configured to,
• collect geo location information from user interactions at one or more of the client-side applications;
• interpret the geo location information to generate geo tags;
• automatically transmit the geo tags to an application server of the cloud gaming system when the geo tags indicate a change in geo location of a user from a first geo location to a second geo location, wherein the change in the geo location of the user triggering the application server to determine usage trend of the user in relation to game play of one or more games hosted by the cloud gaming system, identify a portion of save data corresponding to select ones of games, and generate a signal to migrate the portion of save data for the user corresponding to select ones of games from a first data center in the first geo location to a second data center in the second geo location, the signal for migrating performed prior to the user selecting the one or more games from the second geo location;
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• receive save data for select ones of the games compressed, formatted and streamed from a game server at the second data center, in response to detecting selection of the select ones of the games by the user at the client device, the save data received is decompressed and rendered on a display screen of the client device, the save data providing current state of the select ones of the games.

A method, comprising:

• determining a change in geo location of a user from a first geo location to a second geo location;
• identifying save data of the user stored in a first data center corresponding to the first geo location, wherein the save data includes data related to game play of games by the user that is collected over time;
• analyzing the save data of the user to determine usage trend related to the game play of the games by the user, the usage trend determined from game metrics captured in the save data during game play of the games;
• and
• transmitting the save data of the user to a second data center corresponding to the second geo location prior to the user accessing one or more of the games from the second geo location, the transmitting is performed in anticipation of likely access of the save data by the user at the second geo location, based on the usage trend of the user,
• wherein the save data is made available to game logic of the games executing at the second data center within the second geo location of a cloud gaming system, the save data used to provide a current state of game play of the games for the user accessing the cloud gaming system via a user account.