Patent ID: 11944901
Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. An information processing system, comprising:
at least one game server operating to receive an execution request for execution of a game program from a user terminal over a network and, in response, to load and execute the game program, where the execution request is associated with a play point in a video that shows previously played content of the game program; and
at least one of the at least one game server and at least one video server operating to transmit the video to the user terminal over the network, where the video is displayed to a user of the user terminal and the execution request is initiated by the user,
wherein the at least one game server includes a game situation data obtaining unit that obtains, from a storage unit that stores respective game situation data which indicate respective situations of the game program that are associated with respective play points in the video, certain of the game situation data that is identified based on the play point associated with the execution request,
wherein the at least one game server includes a game executing unit that starts executing the game program from a situation that is indicated by the certain game situation data obtained by the game situation data obtaining unit,
wherein the game executing unit operates to cause a list of videos to be displayed to the user, and the list of videos includes videos which have at least one hyperlink to launch the game, and other videos which do not have such at least one hyperlink,
wherein the at least one game server includes a communications unit operating to transmit game data to the user terminal over the network such that the user may enter into gameplay, and
wherein the video is registered within at least one of the at least one game server and the at least one video server by a specific user who previously engaged in gameplay with the game program to produce the video.