GB2485687A - Game execution environments - Google Patents

Game execution environments Download PDF

Info

Publication number
GB2485687A
GB2485687A GB1122377.3A GB201122377A GB2485687A GB 2485687 A GB2485687 A GB 2485687A GB 201122377 A GB201122377 A GB 201122377A GB 2485687 A GB2485687 A GB 2485687A
Authority
GB
United Kingdom
Prior art keywords
game execution
video
virtual
execution environments
systems
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Granted
Application number
GB1122377.3A
Other versions
GB2485687B (en
GB201122377D0 (en
Inventor
Andrew Buchanan Gault
Rui Filipe Andrade Pereira
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Individual
Original Assignee
Individual
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Priority claimed from US12/790,948 external-priority patent/US9723319B1/en
Application filed by Individual filed Critical Individual
Publication of GB201122377D0 publication Critical patent/GB201122377D0/en
Publication of GB2485687A publication Critical patent/GB2485687A/en
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of GB2485687B publication Critical patent/GB2485687B/en
Active legal-status Critical Current
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical

Links

Classifications

    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F13/00—Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions
    • A63F13/30—Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
    • A63F13/35—Details of game servers
    • A63F13/355—Performing operations on behalf of clients with restricted processing capabilities, e.g. servers transform changing game scene into an encoded video stream for transmitting to a mobile phone or a thin client
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/173—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
    • A63F13/10—
    • A63F13/12—
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/44—Arrangements for executing specific programs
    • G06F9/455—Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/44—Arrangements for executing specific programs
    • G06F9/455—Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines
    • G06F9/45533—Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
    • G06F9/45537—Provision of facilities of other operating environments, e.g. WINE
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/24—Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/24—Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests
    • H04N21/2402—Monitoring of the downstream path of the transmission network, e.g. bandwidth available
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • H04N21/258—Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics, processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Software Systems (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Databases & Information Systems (AREA)
  • Computer Graphics (AREA)
  • Two-Way Televisions, Distribution Of Moving Picture Or The Like (AREA)
  • Information Transfer Between Computers (AREA)

Abstract

Systems and methods for executing multiple video games, or other sources of video, include a game execution environment in which each game application is executed on the same operating system but within a virtual I/O shell. The virtual I/O shell includes virtual video, audio and input channels that allow each game application to operate as if it had dedicated drivers. In some embodiments, the systems and methods of the invention are used to provide video streams to a plurality of clients over the internet.
GB1122377.3A 2009-06-01 2010-06-01 Game execution environments Active GB2485687B (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (9)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US18303509P 2009-06-01 2009-06-01
US18303709P 2009-06-01 2009-06-01
US18308809P 2009-06-02 2009-06-02
US18354609P 2009-06-02 2009-06-02
US32335410P 2010-04-12 2010-04-12
US34553410P 2010-05-17 2010-05-17
US12/790,948 US9723319B1 (en) 2009-06-01 2010-05-31 Differentiation for achieving buffered decoding and bufferless decoding
US12/790,955 US8506402B2 (en) 2009-06-01 2010-05-31 Game execution environments
PCT/US2010/036936 WO2010141492A1 (en) 2009-06-01 2010-06-01 Game execution environments

Publications (3)

Publication Number Publication Date
GB201122377D0 GB201122377D0 (en) 2012-02-01
GB2485687A true GB2485687A (en) 2012-05-23
GB2485687B GB2485687B (en) 2017-11-01

Family

ID=43298089

Family Applications (3)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
GB1420494.5A Active GB2517102B (en) 2009-06-01 2010-06-01 Qualified video delivery
GB1122443.3A Active GB2483045B (en) 2009-06-01 2010-06-01 Qualified video delivery
GB1122377.3A Active GB2485687B (en) 2009-06-01 2010-06-01 Game execution environments

Family Applications Before (2)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
GB1420494.5A Active GB2517102B (en) 2009-06-01 2010-06-01 Qualified video delivery
GB1122443.3A Active GB2483045B (en) 2009-06-01 2010-06-01 Qualified video delivery

Country Status (2)

Country Link
GB (3) GB2517102B (en)
WO (2) WO2010141522A1 (en)

Families Citing this family (19)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US9108107B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2015-08-18 Sony Computer Entertainment America Llc Hosting and broadcasting virtual events using streaming interactive video
US10201760B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2019-02-12 Sony Interactive Entertainment America Llc System and method for compressing video based on detected intraframe motion
US9192859B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2015-11-24 Sony Computer Entertainment America Llc System and method for compressing video based on latency measurements and other feedback
US8526490B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2013-09-03 Ol2, Inc. System and method for video compression using feedback including data related to the successful receipt of video content
US8549574B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2013-10-01 Ol2, Inc. Method of combining linear content and interactive content compressed together as streaming interactive video
US8366552B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2013-02-05 Ol2, Inc. System and method for multi-stream video compression
US9446305B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2016-09-20 Sony Interactive Entertainment America Llc System and method for improving the graphics performance of hosted applications
US9138644B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2015-09-22 Sony Computer Entertainment America Llc System and method for accelerated machine switching
US9061207B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2015-06-23 Sony Computer Entertainment America Llc Temporary decoder apparatus and method
US20090118019A1 (en) 2002-12-10 2009-05-07 Onlive, Inc. System for streaming databases serving real-time applications used through streaming interactive video
US9314691B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2016-04-19 Sony Computer Entertainment America Llc System and method for compressing video frames or portions thereof based on feedback information from a client device
US8964830B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2015-02-24 Ol2, Inc. System and method for multi-stream video compression using multiple encoding formats
US9077991B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2015-07-07 Sony Computer Entertainment America Llc System and method for utilizing forward error correction with video compression
US8711923B2 (en) 2002-12-10 2014-04-29 Ol2, Inc. System and method for selecting a video encoding format based on feedback data
US9168457B2 (en) 2010-09-14 2015-10-27 Sony Computer Entertainment America Llc System and method for retaining system state
KR102028339B1 (en) * 2013-03-22 2019-10-04 한국전자통신연구원 Method and apparatus for virtualization of sound
US20180243651A1 (en) * 2015-07-24 2018-08-30 Gorillabox Gmbh Method for streaming and reproducing applications (APPs) via a particular telecommunication system, telecommunication network for streaming and reproducing applications (APPs) via a particular telecommunication system and use of a telecommunication network for streaming and reproducing applications (APPs) via a particular telecommunication system
EP3393610A1 (en) 2015-12-21 2018-10-31 Gorillabox GmbH I. G. Method for playing back applications from a cloud, telecommunication network for streaming and for replaying applications (apps) via a specific telecommunication system, and use of a telecommunication network for streaming and replaying applications (apps)
WO2018041324A1 (en) 2016-09-03 2018-03-08 Gorillabox Gmbh Method for streaming and reproducing applications via a particular telecommunications system, telecommunications network for carrying out the method, and use of a telecommunications network of this type

Citations (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US20050080915A1 (en) * 2003-09-30 2005-04-14 Shoemaker Charles H. Systems and methods for determining remote device media capabilities
US20050193139A1 (en) * 1997-06-16 2005-09-01 Jeffrey Vinson Software streaming system and method
US20060069797A1 (en) * 2004-09-10 2006-03-30 Microsoft Corporation Systems and methods for multimedia remoting over terminal server connections
US20060146057A1 (en) * 2004-12-30 2006-07-06 Microsoft Corporation Systems and methods for virtualizing graphics subsystems

Family Cites Families (9)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US6141693A (en) * 1996-06-03 2000-10-31 Webtv Networks, Inc. Method and apparatus for extracting digital data from a video stream and using the digital data to configure the video stream for display on a television set
WO2002097584A2 (en) * 2001-05-31 2002-12-05 Hyperspace Communications, Inc. Adaptive video server
US20030135863A1 (en) * 2002-01-17 2003-07-17 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Targeted scalable multicast based on client bandwidth or capability
US8054880B2 (en) * 2004-12-10 2011-11-08 Tut Systems, Inc. Parallel rate control for digital video encoder with multi-processor architecture and picture-based look-ahead window
US7139002B2 (en) * 2003-08-01 2006-11-21 Microsoft Corporation Bandwidth-efficient processing of video images
US7779424B2 (en) * 2005-03-02 2010-08-17 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. System and method for attributing to a corresponding virtual machine CPU usage of an isolated driver domain in which a shared resource's device driver resides
US8221220B2 (en) * 2006-08-11 2012-07-17 Disney Enterprises, Inc. Method and/or system for adaptive gaming experience
EP2158784A2 (en) * 2007-06-06 2010-03-03 Boldstreet Inc. Remote service access system and method
US8380790B2 (en) * 2008-12-15 2013-02-19 Microsoft Corporation Video conference rate matching

Patent Citations (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US20050193139A1 (en) * 1997-06-16 2005-09-01 Jeffrey Vinson Software streaming system and method
US20050080915A1 (en) * 2003-09-30 2005-04-14 Shoemaker Charles H. Systems and methods for determining remote device media capabilities
US20060069797A1 (en) * 2004-09-10 2006-03-30 Microsoft Corporation Systems and methods for multimedia remoting over terminal server connections
US20060146057A1 (en) * 2004-12-30 2006-07-06 Microsoft Corporation Systems and methods for virtualizing graphics subsystems

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
GB2483045A (en) 2012-02-22
WO2010141522A1 (en) 2010-12-09
WO2010141492A1 (en) 2010-12-09
GB201420494D0 (en) 2014-12-31
GB2517102B (en) 2015-03-25
GB2483045B (en) 2015-03-11
GB2517102A (en) 2015-02-11
GB2485687B (en) 2017-11-01
GB201122377D0 (en) 2012-02-01
GB201122443D0 (en) 2012-02-08

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
GB2485687A (en) Game execution environments
WO2014134107A3 (en) System and method for multi-user control and media streaming to a shared display
EP3602252A4 (en) Augmeted reality system with spatialized audio tied to user manipulated virtual object
WO2011132984A3 (en) Method for providing previous watch list of contents provided by different sources, and display device which performs same
WO2013180599A3 (en) Video-karaoke system
WO2012174299A3 (en) System and method for managing audio and video channels for video game players and spectators
WO2012074528A8 (en) Augmented reality system
WO2012167178A3 (en) Daisy chain devices and systems for digital signal switching and distribution
WO2008111113A1 (en) Effect device, av processing device and program
WO2012087849A3 (en) Extensible system action for sharing while remaining in context
AU2013346430A8 (en) Multi-user interactive virtual environment system and method
GB2519903A (en) Integration of a robotic system with one or more mobile computing devices
WO2011156666A3 (en) Allocation of gpu resources across multiple clients
WO2014070134A3 (en) Quorum-based virtual machine security
WO2012103376A3 (en) Method and system for a virtual playdate
MX2013002264A (en) Pesticidal compositions.
WO2008097836A3 (en) Scalable architecture
WO2014105264A3 (en) Sprite graphics rendering system
WO2013138165A3 (en) System and method for capturing and sharing console gaming data
WO2007114956A3 (en) Linking and browsing media on television
EP2619990A4 (en) Validation of tv viewership utlizing methods, systems and computer control logic
NZ585906A (en) Streaming game or application audio-visual data over a public network after compressing the data using parallel processing
GB2499163A (en) System and method for capturing text for an online application
WO2008104834A3 (en) System, method and computer program product for dynamically extracting and sharing event information from an executing software application
WO2010138477A3 (en) User movement feedback via on-screen avatars

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
732E Amendments to the register in respect of changes of name or changes affecting rights (sect. 32/1977)

Free format text: REGISTERED BETWEEN 20121101 AND 20121107