Patent ID: 8719168

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying, by a game console, at least one user account present on the game console during use by a user of an offline game title on the game console; determining, by the game console, that automatic sign-in is enabled on the game console for the at least one user account identified; identifying, by the game console, a most-recently-signed-in user account of the at least one user account as a specific user account to be silently signed in; silently signing in, by the game console, the specific user account to an online service automatically without requiring action by the user of the offline game title on the game console for effecting the silently signing in; determining, by the game console, that the user has been silently signed in; and based at least in part on the determining that the user has been silently signed in, providing the user with access to online services during the use of the offline game title.