Patent ID: 8924515

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in at least one computing device, the program comprising: code that identifies a game to distribute to a plurality of remote hosts via a network, wherein the remote hosts are operable to remotely execute the game for a plurality of client devices; code that generates a demand forecast for the game based at least in part on a demand for a plurality of available games sharing a genre with the game, wherein the demand forecast projects at least a number of the client devices requesting a remote execution session of the game within a time period; code that determines distribution data for the game based at least in part on the demand forecast and a plurality of available computing resources, wherein the distribution data contains at least a number of the remote hosts to receive the game and a respective location; code that identifies a portion of the remote hosts having a plurality of attributes described in the distribution data; code that generates a schedule for a plurality of transmissions of the game to the portion of the remote hosts; and code that initiates the transmissions of the game to the portion of the remote hosts based at least in part on the schedule.