Patents Examined by Michael A Cuff
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Patent number: 12636583Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for translating a game, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method include: establishing, by a proxy server, a communication connection between a client and a game server through the proxy server, wherein the proxy server communicates with the game server for the game; receiving, by the proxy server, game data from the game server, where the game data is sent by the game server in response to an active request or actively pushed by the game server; determining, by the proxy server, language resource data contained in the game data; and translating, by the proxy server, the language resource data according to a predetermined automation service, and returning translated language resource data to the client, so that the client loads the translated language resource data.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.Inventor: Wanghong Lin
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Patent number: 12636577Abstract: An electronic apparatus including a communication interface; a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to control a display to display content received from a server through the communication interface, obtain a control signal corresponding to a user input for controlling the content displayed, transmit the obtained control signal to the server through the communication interface; obtain an image output control signal corresponding to the obtained control signal while transmitting the obtained control signal to the server, process the content displayed based on the obtained image output control signal, control the display to display the content that was processed based on the obtained image output control signal while awaiting content processed by the server based on the transmitted obtained control signal, receive the content processed by the server, and control the display to display the received content processed by the server.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Bonggil Bak
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Patent number: 12640008Abstract: Systems and methods that utilize funds associated with a gaming establishment account to offer just-in-time funding for a settled purchase transaction made using funds accessed from a financial account associated with the gaming establishment account.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2023Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: IGTInventors: Kevin Higgins, Lisa Schiffer, Jeffery Shepherd
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Patent number: 12636581Abstract: This application provides a data processing method for a virtual scene performed by an electronic device, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method includes the following steps: enabling a plurality of clients to access a plurality of single games via a service process; allocating static resource masks corresponding to static resources of the service process to the plurality of clients, the static resource masks allocated to the plurality of clients being the same; allocating dynamic resource masks corresponding to dynamic resources of the service process to the plurality of clients; sharing the static resources among the plurality of single games based on the allocating static resource masks corresponding to the static resources to the plurality of clients; and isolating the dynamic resources among the different single games based on the allocating dynamic resource masks corresponding to the dynamic resources to the plurality of clients.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Jiaming Zhang, Yachang Wang
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Patent number: 12632913Abstract: Systems and methods for generating data structures using language models based on distributed network communications are disclosed. A system can maintain a plurality of data structures. Each of the plurality of data structures can correspond to a first set of parameters for a first time period and a second set of parameters for a second time period. The system can generate, using the language model and parameters, indications of changed parameters for the plurality of data structures. The system can receive, from a client device, a prompt including a request. The system can generate, using the language model, the prompt, and the indications of changed parameters, an output message identifying at least one data structure that satisfies the request. The message can identify a change in parameters associated with the at least one data structure. The system can provide the output message to the client device.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2025Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: DK Crown Holdings Inc.Inventors: Robin Mohseni, Gengyuan Zhang
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Patent number: 12629599Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a data matching method and apparatus, a device and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes displaying a livestreaming page of a first livestreaming room on a livestreaming platform, wherein the first livestreaming room is associated with a first game account in a video game; and in response to a second game account associated with a second livestreaming room entering a battle with the first game account in the video game, displaying information of the second livestreaming room on the livestreaming page.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2023Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Yi Xiao, Richeng Huang
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Patent number: 12623150Abstract: Another player character does not interfere with an object in a game space in an own game apparatus. When the other player character satisfies a predetermined condition in a game space in another game apparatus, a movable range in the game space is changed but a movable range in the game space in the own game apparatus is not changed.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2024Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryuhei Matsuura, Shigeyuki Asuke, Hajime Nakao, Shiro Mouri, Takeshi Nishimura
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Patent number: 12623145Abstract: An in-game information processing method an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: in response to current virtual battle mission meeting preset condition, controlling generation of at least one target area in virtual scene; generating at least one corresponding position mark, in a position corresponding to orientation information in the scene map corresponding to scene map control, and generating at least one area mark control corresponding to the at least one target area in control interface, according to orientation information of the at least one target area in the virtual scene; in response to activation behavior of virtual object in the target area, adjusting display parameter of the area mark control according to obtained current area state information; in response to evacuation behavior of the virtual object in the target area, determining that the virtual object has completed evacuation from the target area.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignee: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.Inventor: Jingyi Fu
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Patent number: 12582914Abstract: A game management device includes a storage unit that stores a list of a plurality of groups constituted of a member. The device further includes a merging-subject search unit that searches for various groups that satisfy a merging condition and that can be mutually merged from among groups with which the numbers of members have not reached an upper limit set in advance in a game and that are in a state in which it is possible to add a member. The device further includes a proposition unit that presents a proposal for merging to the groups that can be mutually merged and that accepts replies to the proposal. The device further includes a merging unit that merges the groups to generate a single group in the case where replies to the effect of accepting the proposal have been received from the groups.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
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Patent number: 12582907Abstract: A display control system includes at least one memory for storing instructions and at least one processor that implements the instructions to: generate a situation message representative of a situation of a game played by at least one player using at least one game apparatus; display the situation message on a first display that is independent of the at least one game apparatus; and display, on a second display that is independent of the at least one game apparatus, a game image used to watch the situation of the game without displaying the situation message.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: KONAMI AMUSEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Noboru Nakasaka, Yoshitaka Tamura
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Patent number: 12564768Abstract: A golf ball comprising piezoelectric material and a wireless transmitter is disclosed herein. The golf ball also comprises at least one of an integrated circuit having a gyroscope, a magnetometer, and a BLUETOOTH low energy (BTLE) radio, and at least one battery.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2023Date of Patent: March 3, 2026Assignee: Topgolf International, Inc.Inventor: Ethan D. Stroud
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Patent number: 12558632Abstract: Provided are a data processing method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a first live streaming video stream of a first live streaming user and a second live streaming video stream of a second live streaming user; merging the first live streaming video stream and the second live streaming video stream into a game video stream; and sending the game video stream to a viewing user to live stream a target game.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Siyu Gao
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Patent number: 12551785Abstract: A universal mobile game controller is provided that can interoperate with multiple computing device operating systems (e.g., Android and iOS) in an automatic way through a common connector (e.g., USB-C). With these embodiments, instead of building a separate mobile game controller for each operating system, a single mobile game controller can be used for all operating systems. These embodiments can also enable communication with an application running within the computing device operating system. Other embodiments are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: Backbone Labs, Inc.Inventor: Shawn O'Connor
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Patent number: 12551796Abstract: Systems and methods to facilitate temporary ceding of control over unique digital articles for performance of player-specified tasks are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may implement a permanent registry; execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players; invite other players to temporarily gain control over the unique digital articles during attempts to perform owner-specified tasks; record modifications to usage permissions of the unique digital articles to temporarily cede control; perform in-game actions using the unique digital articles during attempts to perform the owner-specified tasks; detect the end of the attempts; revert the modifications such that the owners gain back the control over the unique digital articles; and/or other steps.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: Mythical, Inc.Inventors: Laura Ann Ulmer, Sung Meen Hong
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Patent number: 12551795Abstract: A device may access a feature vector generated based on interactions by a user with a video game. The device may access a cluster map comprising a mapping of user clusters, wherein each location within the cluster map is associated with a set of users whose feature vectors are within a threshold degree of similarity of each other. The cluster map may be generated using a plurality of extracted feature vectors obtained from interaction information. A device may determine a map location within the cluster map associated with the user based at least in part on the feature vector. A device may determine a target map location within the cluster map. A device may determine a guidance action based at least in part on the target map location and the map location associated with the user. A device may execute the guidance action.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.Inventors: Siddharth Mysore Sthaneshwar, Yunqi Zhao, Xin Gao, Alec Jarred Antrim, Harold Henry Chaput, Fernando de Mesentier Silva
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Patent number: 12551803Abstract: Described is a word game system. The system includes a server having a memory storing user data and game data and a plurality of user computing devices coupled to the server. The system operates to create a team from the plurality of user computing devices that have accessed the system. The server may send a game interface to each of user computing devices that include blank spaces corresponding to a word determined by the server, wherein the number of letters correspond to the number of user computing devices. The server also sends a letter tile to each user computing device that correspond to the blank spaces. The team then operates to enter letter tiles into the blank spaces to form a word and the server automatically determines if the word spelled matches the word determined by the server.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Inventor: Charles Isgar
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Patent number: 12551799Abstract: Systems and methods for promoting games and incentivization to metaverse users. For example, a metaverse user affiliation system may be used to continuously monitor data relating to activity of a metaverse user with respect to one or more metaverses; to automatically generate game-related data to be presented to the metaverse user via the one or more metaverses based at least in part on the data relating to the activity of the metaverse user with respect to the one or more metaverses, wherein the game-related data relates to a virtual game being played by a plurality of metaverse users, and wherein the virtual game relates to personal behavior of the plurality of metaverse users with respect to the one or more metaverses; and to transmit the game-related data to one or more metaverse servers to enable presentation of the game-related data to the metaverse user via the one or more metaverses.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Timothy Blair Chalmers, Robert Lee Black, Subhalakshmi Selvam, Shayla Leigh Callis, Roberto Virgillio Jolliffe, Timothy Benjamin Czerlinsky, Sean Michael Wayne Craig
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Patent number: 12544676Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for gaming solutions across different gaming channels, different entities, and different environments using blockchain and/or non-fungible token (NFT) components and/or functionality. In an embodiment, a computing system can associate an NFT with a game session executed via a gaming device associated with a gaming environment, where the NFT is configured to allow for recreation of the game session via a local device associated with the gaming environment or a remote device associated with a second environment being different from the gaming environment. In another embodiment, a computing system and/or a gaming device can: perform a blockchain mining process and concurrently execute a game; track one or more game participation metrics corresponding to a player participating in the game and provide the player with a defined percentage of a token based at least in part on the one or more game participation metrics.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: LNW Gaming, Inc.Inventors: Mili Dalmia, Sunil Somanna T S, Ramesh Gandhi Mathiyalagan, Muthu Velu, Mark Hinchcliffe, Mahesh Lakshmana Perumal
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Patent number: 12539461Abstract: A data transmission method includes: displaying, in an acceleration function interface of a first application, a second application to be accelerated, the first application configured to reduce a network latency between the second application and a corresponding target server, and the second application configured to provide a virtual scene; determining a target transmission link based on a network latency of a mobile communication link and a network latency of a wireless communication link in response to a trigger operation on the second application, the target transmission link including at least one of the mobile communication link or the wireless communication link; and performing data transmission with the target server corresponding to the second application based on the target transmission link.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: February 3, 2026Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Guozhu Li, Yu Liang, Wentao Zhong, Jinlin Liu, Lang Yang
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Patent number: 12533587Abstract: An exemplary information processing system generates an assembled object by assembling a plurality of virtual objects based on an input by a user. The plurality of virtual objects include virtual power objects each configured to provide power to the assembled object and a virtual controller object. While the virtual power object and the virtual controller object are included in the assembled object, the information processing system causes the one or more virtual power objects to operate to move the assembled object in a predetermined traveling direction, and causes a moving direction of the movable object to change based on an input by the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Fukada, Akira Furukawa, Takahiro Takayama, Yuya Sato, Ryuju Maeno