Patent ID: 9272209
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: A63F,H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: a network interface communicatively coupled to the Internet, the network interface configured to transmit control information to a data center hosting one or more video games or applications on the Internet and executing the video games or applications in response to the control information, said data center remote to the apparatus and streaming interactive compressed video from the video games or applications to the apparatus over the Internet; one or more input devices manipulated by one or more users and responsively providing the control information to the one or more video games or applications hosted by the data center through the Internet; video decompression logic for decompressing the streaming interactive compressed video received through the network interface, the apparatus rendering video images contained in the streaming interactive compressed video of the video game or application; wherein the streaming interactive compressed video is streamed to the apparatus over the Internet and decompressed with a latency such that a user of the apparatus has the perception that the video game or application hosted by the data center is responding instantly to the control information.