Spectator feedback and adaptation

• US 10,065,122 B1
• Filed: 10/02/2017
• Issued: 09/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lawson, Nicholas Joshua, Gilmore, Patrick, Donges, Michael, Connors, Joseph Conlin, Baklov, Rosen Ognyanov, Schenk, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Elisca, Pierre E
• Application Number:
  US15/722,316
• Time in Patent Office: 337 Days
• Field of Search: 463 31
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/352 involving special game server arrangements, e.g. regional servers connected to a national server or a plurality of servers managing partitions of the game world
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/355 Performing operations on behalf of clients with restricted processing capabilities, e.g. servers transform changing game scene into an encoded video stream for transmitting to a mobile phone or a thin client
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/86 Watching games played by other players
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/87 Communicating with other players during game play, e.g. by e-mail or chat

Abstract

A first content item instance may be played by one or more participants and may be presented by one or more first compute nodes to the one or more participants. Information associated with the first content item instance may be collected. The information may include, for example, game state, user inputs, and other information associated with the first content item instance. The information may be provided as input to a second content item instance executing at one or more second compute nodes. Audio and/or video information output by the second content item instance may then be collected, and data including the collected information may be transmitted to one or more third compute nodes for presentation to spectators. Spectator feedback may be received and provided back to the first content item instance, which may be presented based, at least in part, on the spectator feedback.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more processors

one or more memories to store a set of instructions, which if executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

transmitting data associated with a video game instance having one or more players to a plurality of spectators of the video game instance;

receiving, from a first spectator of the plurality of spectators, feedback information relating to one or more events within the video game instance, wherein the first spectator is provided with one or more options to perform at least one of selecting or de-selecting one or more feedback types that are available to be provided by one or more other spectators of the plurality of spectators; and

using the feedback information from the first spectator to at least partially modify the one or more events within the video game instance.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the feedback information comprises at least one of a vote or a wager corresponding to the video game instance.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the feedback information comprises a request associated with a character within the video game instance.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the feedback information comprises at least one of a request to make one or more objects available to one or more characters or a request to restrict availability of one or more objects to one or more characters.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the feedback information comprises a request to initiate, terminate or modify an act of nature that is simulated within the video game instance.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the feedback information is used to at least partially control generation of at least one of audio, video, or other data by the video game instance.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the feedback information is further provided as input to an additional application associated with the video game instance.

8. A method comprising:

transmitting data associated with a video game instance having one or more players to a plurality of spectators of the video game instance;

receiving, from a first spectator of the plurality of spectators, feedback information relating to one or more events within the video game instance, wherein the first spectator is provided with one or more options to perform at least one of selecting or de-selecting one or more feedback types that are available to be provided by one or more other spectators of the plurality of spectators; and

using the feedback information from the first spectator to at least partially modify the one or more events within the video game instance.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the feedback information comprises at least one of a vote or a wager corresponding to the video game instance.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the feedback information comprises a request associated with a character within the video game instance.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the feedback information comprises at least one of a request to make one or more objects available to one or more characters or a request to restrict availability of one or more objects to one or more characters.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the feedback information comprises a request to initiate, terminate or modify an act of nature that is simulated within the video game instance.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the feedback information is used to at least partially control generation of at least one of audio, video, or other data by the video game instance.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the feedback information is further provided as input to an additional application associated with the video game instance.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions, which if performed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

transmitting data associated with a video game instance having one or more players to a plurality of spectators of the video game instance;

receiving, from a first spectator of the plurality of spectators, feedback information relating to one or more events within the video game instance, wherein the first spectator is provided with one or more options to perform at least one of selecting or de-selecting one or more feedback types that are available to be provided by one or more other spectators of the plurality of spectators; and

using the feedback information from the first spectator to at least partially modify the one or more events within the video game instance.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the feedback information comprises at least one of a vote or a wager corresponding to the video game instance.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the feedback information comprises a request associated with a character within the video game instance.