Patent ID: 8515253
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: A63F,G11B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for automated creation of videos for interactive entertainment involving at least one individual, based on events that occur within that interactive entertainment, comprising: an electronic storage device for storing an interactive entertainment history, said interactive entertainment history containing a series of events captured during said interactive entertainment for said individual; a processor for searching said interactive entertainment history of a particular interactive entertainment session to identify discrete events that have occurred during said interactive entertainment session, said discrete events being events that are associated with tags that include rating information for the discrete events; and the processor assembling particular identified ones of said discrete events of the interactive entertainment session for said individual automatically into a video, the discrete events for the video identified in part using the rating information of the tags; wherein the discrete events in the video define a highlights reel of the interactive entertainment session by linearly arranging the assembled discrete events.