Patent ID: 11918894
Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 8:
9. A method, comprising:
providing a game slice defined from a recorded game play of a video game by a first user, the game slice including a viewable portion of the recorded game play and a playable portion of the recorded game play;
receiving at a server a plurality of tag data for the viewable portion of the recorded game play, wherein the plurality of tag data originates from a plurality of viewers viewing the viewable portion of the recorded game play;
identifying at the server a sub-portion of the viewable portion of the recorded game play having a concentration of the plurality of tag data;
generating at the server a subset of the viewable portion of the recorded game play based on the sub-portion of the viewable portion of the recorded game play; and
providing to a viewer of the subset of the viewable portion of the recorded game play a playable sub-portion of the game slice corresponding to the sub-portion of the viewable portion of the recorded game play,
wherein the playable sub-portion of the game slice enables a new game play of the video game for the sub-portion of the viewable portion of the recorded game play beginning at a first point in a game play of the first user that corresponds with a start position of the sub-portion of the viewable portion of the recorded game play,
wherein the playable sub-portion of the game slice is executed independent of the game play by the first user at the server using game code for the video game and state data associated with the first point in the game play of the first user.