Spectator interactions with games in a specatating system

US10345897B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · US

Inventors

• David Hendrik Verfaillie · Laguna Beach, US
• Hok Peng Leung · Redmond, US
• Patrick Gilmore · Craydon Court, US
• Ethan Zane Evans · Snoqualmie, US
• Michael Anthony Willette · Lake Forest, US
• Christopher Paul Dury · Bellevue, US
• Collin Charles Davis · Seattle, US
• Richard Bantegui · Irvine, US
• Francis Xavier Surjo-Subagio · Irvine, US
• Michael Anthony Frazzini · Seattle, US
• Michael Martin George · Mercer Island, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 2015
• Grant date: Jul 9, 2019
• Expiry date: Nov 7, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F3/017
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A spectating system that generates game inputs based on spectator inputs and interactions, and provides the game inputs to game systems according to an application programming interface (API). The spectating system may allow spectators to interact with and affect a game being broadcast via inputs to and interactions with user interface (UI) elements presented on the spectating UI. Spectators may affect or influence the game, objects within the game universe, events within the game, or the players in the game via the UI elements on the spectating UI. The spectators may become involved in the games being broadcast by influencing game play via the spectating inputs. Game play for the players may be enhanced by providing interesting variations in game play based on the spectating inputs.