Patent ID: 8968087
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: A63F,G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A game delivery system, comprising: game logic configured to provide a game environment based on game rules and game commands received from one or more game players; a graphics processing unit configured to render the game environment to video data; an encoding pipeline configured receive the rendered video data and overlay data, the overlay data defining an image associated with a game feature controlled by the game logic, the image defined by the overlay data mapped to a specific region on a display of a client computing system corresponding to at least one of the one or more game players, wherein mapping of the overlay data to the specific region is directed by the game logic, the encoding pipeline configured to combine the overlay data with the rendered video data, the encoding pipeline configured to encode the combination of the overlay data and the video data into a data format compatible with a destination codec for transmission over a network to the destination codec, wherein the encoding pipeline is dynamically provisioned in response to a signal received from the client computing system; and an output configured to provide the encoded combination of the overlay data and the video data over the network to the client computing system having the destination codec.