Persistent party rooms

US9331858B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC. · JP

Inventors

• Mohammed Khan · San Mateo, US
• Vinod Tandon · San Diego, US
• Hai Jie Hewu · Tokyo, JP
• Ramana Bangalore Prakash · San Diego, US
• Yasutaka Miwa · Tokyo, JP
• Mark Fortuna · Cardiff-by-the-Sea, US
• Scott Kirkland · Warrington, GB
• Christopher Thomas Reese · Bend, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 3, 2011
• Grant date: May 3, 2016
• Expiry date: Aug 14, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A63F2300/636
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

Using persistent party rooms, including: initializing, via a computing device, a global array according to a hierarchical server architecture; determining, via the computing device, whether or not to create a new persistent party room or to join a previously bookmarked persistent party room; creating, via the computing device, the new persistent party room within a position indexed in the global array; and joining, via the computing device, the previously bookmarked persistent party room by searching for the previously bookmarked party room utilizing the global array.