Patent ID: 9358461
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing mini-games created and executed in a game cloud system, comprising: providing, on a website, a plurality of mini-games stored in the game cloud system, wherein each of the plurality of mini-games is created based on a video recording of a game play for a game title, and each of the plurality of mini-games is defined from a portion selected from the video recording, the portion being used to identify state data from the game title related to game actions taken to produce scenes present in the video recording, the state data at least partially used to identify code segments from the game title that will enable functionality in a mini-game that was present in the portion of the video recording of the game play, wherein each of the plurality of mini-games is shared in a social network; identifying user interactions for each of the plurality of mini-games that are shared in the social network; ranking the mini-games based on the identified user interactions associated with each mini-game; and displaying the mini-games in an order that is based on the ranking; processing play of the mini-game via execution by the game cloud system in an online streaming format, wherein inputs received for play of the mini-game are mapped based on a type of client used to play the mini-game, the method being executed by a processor.