Patent ID: 9227141
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: A63F,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for using a touch screen computing device to control a video game, the method comprising: determining, based on a characteristic of the video game, a video game genre for the video game; selecting, from a plurality of available genre specific virtual control interfaces that each include different combinations of virtual game controls, a virtual control interface that is optimized for use with the video game genre; outputting for display on a touch screen device's touch screen a virtual control interface, which comprises a plurality of virtual game controls adapted to control the video game; receiving through the touch screen an interaction on a virtual game control within the virtual control interface, wherein the virtual game control corresponds to a gamepad control; generating a control signal that comprises a functional instruction that is able to be interpreted by the video game as equivalent to an instruction received from a gamepad when the gamepad control is activated; and outputting the control signal to the video game.