Predictive caching of game content data

A cloud-based game server for predictively caching game content data, the server comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to:
• identify path segments that can be taken by a player during a game;
• in response to a determination of an availability of a game history of the player, determine a probability of the player taking a subset of the path segments based on the game history of the player;
• render one or more of the path segments in the subset of path segments based on the probability, wherein each of the one or more path segments rendered is in a display quality proportional to the probability;
• in response to a determination of an unavailability of the game history of the player, assign an equal probability of a selection of one of the subset of the path segments as the probability of the player taking the subset of the path segments, wherein the subset of the path segments are rendered in an equal display quality based on the equal probability;
• transmit the rendered one or more path segments with the display quality to a game client to be cached at the game client cache of the game client;
• remove an unused portion of a game content data from the game client cache;
• and
• replace the unused portion with the rendered one or more path segments.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon to predictively cache in a cloud-based game, the instructions comprising:

• identifying a path segments that can be taken by a player during a game;
• in response to a determination of an availability of a game history of the player, determining a probability of the player taking a subset of the path segments based on the game history of the player;
• rendering one or more of the path segments in the subset of path segments based on the probability, wherein each of the one or more path segments rendered is in a display quality proportional to the probability;
• in response to a determination of an unavailability of the game history of the player, assigning an equal probability of a selection of one of the subset of the path segments as the probability of the player taking the subset of the path segments, wherein the subset of the path segments are rendered in an equal display quality based on the equal probability;
• transmitting the rendered one or more path segments with the display quality to a game client to be cached at a game client cache of the game client;
• removing an unused portion of a game content data from the game client cache;
• and
• replacing the unused portion with the rendered one or more path segments.

A game client to cache predicted game content data, the game client comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to:
• receive one or more rendered path segments from a game server to cache locally, wherein the one or more path segments are rendered by:
• identifying the one or more path segments that can be taken by a player during a game;
• in response to a determination of an availability of a game history of the player, determining a probability of the player taking a subset of the path segments based on the game history of the player;
• rendering one or more of the path segments in the subset of the path segments based on the probability, wherein each of the one or more path segments rendered is in a display quality proportional to the probability;
• in response to a determination of an unavailability of the game history of the player, assigning an equal probability of a selection of one of the subset of the path segments as the probability of the player taking the subset of the path segments, wherein the subset of the path segments are rendered in an equal display quality based on the equal probability;
• removing an unused portion of a game content data from a game client cache of the game client;
• and
• replacing the unused portion with the rendered one or more of the path segments.