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US 8,898,125 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for awarding trophies
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
InventorsVictor O. Suba-Miura, Stewart Sargaison
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for adding trophy support games that do not have trophies without modifying the original game. The method and apparatus are used to detect particular disk access, use the detected disk access as potential trophy triggers in games, and recognize the triggers while a game is played. Trophies are awarded based on the triggers, and the awarded trophies are stored.
Claims13
A computer-implemented method for assigning one or more trophies to a user, comprising:
- accessing electronic media content stored on a computer-readable storage medium;
- defining one or more trophies;
- defining a trigger associated with the media content;
- detecting the trigger during media content access;
- and
- assigning the one or more trophies to a user account that is associated with the user in response to the detected trigger,
- wherein the defined trigger includes the computer accessing a particular location on the computer-readable medium that stores the media content.
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