Generation of gameplay video based on social network sharing

2:

• The method of claim 1,
• wherein recording the user's gameplay includes recording one or more of user input data received over a network from a first client device, or game state data generated by processing the user input data by a video game processor of the cloud gaming system;
• wherein the region of interest being a region of the video game identified from analysis of one or more of the user input data or the game state data.

3:

• The method of claim 2, wherein analyzing the user's recorded gameplay includes determining levels of activity of the user input data or game state data, the region of interest further being determined based on the levels of activity of the user input data or game state data.

4:

• The method of claim 3, wherein the levels of activity of the user input data include one or more of user inputs, a rate of user input, a frequency of user input, repeats of a user input, an input pattern.

5:

• The method of claim 1, further comprising:
• defining, by the cloud gaming system, boundaries within a gameplay context of the video game based on the determined region of interest that define options for selection of a beginning and an end for the gameplay video.

6:

• The method of claim 5, wherein defining boundaries within a gameplay context of the video game includes defining a spatial boundary within a virtual space of the video game.

7:

• The method of claim 6, wherein the spatial boundary within the virtual space of the video game defines a portion of the virtual space less than an entirety of the virtual space, the portion of the virtual space having a subset of features of the virtual space.

8:

• The method of claim 5, wherein defining boundaries within a gameplay context of the video game includes one or more of, defining a temporal boundary within a temporal context of the video game, or identifying a nearest start point or a nearest end point of one or more of a stage, level, or scene.

9:

• The method of claim 5, wherein the region of interest is further determined based on sharing of the gameplay context with other users.

10:

• The method of claim 1, wherein the region of interest is further determined based on comments associated with the region on the social network.

12:

• The method of claim 11, wherein the current portion of the user's gameplay is defined by a buffered portion of the user's gameplay previous to the request being initiated from the button of the controller device.

13:

• The method of claim 12, wherein the buffered portion has a predefined duration of time.

14:

• The method of claim 11,
• wherein recording the user's gameplay includes recording one or more of user input data received over a network from a first client device, or game state data generated by processing the user input data by a video game processor of the cloud gaming system;
• wherein the regions of interest being regions of the video game identified from analysis of one or more of the user input data or the game state data.

15:

• The method of claim 14, wherein analyzing the user's recorded gameplay includes determining levels of activity of the user input data or game state data, the region of interest further being determined based on the levels of activity of the user input data or game state data.

16:

• The method of claim 15, wherein the levels of activity of the user input data include one or more of user inputs, a rate of user input, a frequency of user input, repeats of a user input, an input pattern.

17:

• The method of claim 11, further comprising:
• for the selected one of the current portion of the user's gameplay and the one or more regions of interest, defining, by the cloud gaming system, boundaries within a gameplay context of the video game that define options for selection of a beginning and an end for the gameplay video.

19:

• The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the current portion of the user's gameplay is defined by a buffered portion of the user's gameplay previous to the request being initiated from the button of the controller device.

20:

• The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19, wherein the buffered portion has a predefined duration of time.