Associated content item instances

• US 10,441,891 B1
• Filed: 10/27/2017
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• 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: Baklov, Rosen Ognyanov, Lawson, Nicholas Joshua, Gilmore, Patrick, Donges, Michael, Connors, Joseph Conlin, Schenk, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Elisca, Pierre E
• Application Number:
  US15/795,556
• Time in Patent Office: 718 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 13/86 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 that store a set of instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

receiving input provided by one or more players to a first video game instance executed by one or more first compute nodes, wherein the first video game instance captures a first scene from a first virtual camera perspective with respect to the first scene;

providing the input to a second video game instance executed by one or more second compute nodes, wherein the second video game instance captures the first scene from a second virtual camera perspective with respect to the first scene, wherein the second virtual camera perspective is at least partially different from the first virtual camera perspective; and

providing video output from the second video game instance for display.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving state information from the first video game instance; and

providing the state information to the second video game instance.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the video output comprises graphics with at least one of higher complexity or greater detail than graphics provided by the first video game instance.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the video output is provided to one or more third compute nodes for display.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the video output is presented at the one or more third compute nodes with a different resolution than a resolution at which the first video game instance is presented.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving virtual camera perspective adjustment information from the one or more third compute nodes; and

providing the virtual camera perspective adjustment information to the second video game instance.

7. A method comprising:

receiving input provided by one or more players to a first video game instance executed by one or more first compute nodes, wherein the first video game instance captures a first scene from a first virtual camera perspective with respect to the first scene;

providing the input to a second video game instance executed by one or more second compute nodes, wherein the second video game instance captures the first scene from a second virtual camera perspective with respect to the first scene, wherein the second virtual camera perspective is at least partially different from the first virtual camera perspective; and

providing video output from the second video game instance for display.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

receiving state information from the first video game instance; and

providing the state information to the second video game instance.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the video output comprises graphics with at least one of higher complexity or greater detail than graphics provided by the first video game instance.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the video output is provided to one or more third compute nodes for display.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the video output is presented at the one or more third compute nodes with a different resolution than a resolution at which the first video game instance is presented.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving virtual camera perspective adjustment information from the one or more third compute nodes; and

providing the virtual camera perspective adjustment information to the second video game instance.

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

receiving input provided by one or more players to a first video game instance executed by one or more first compute nodes, wherein the first video game instance captures a first scene from a first virtual camera perspective with respect to the first scene;

providing the input to a second video game instance executed by one or more second compute nodes, wherein the second video game instance captures the first scene from a second virtual camera perspective with respect to the first scene, wherein the second virtual camera perspective is at least partially different from the first virtual camera perspective; and

providing video output from the second video game instance for display.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving state information from the first video game instance; and

providing the state information to the second video game instance.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the video output comprises graphics with at least one of higher complexity or greater detail than graphics provided by the first video game instance.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the video output is provided to one or more third compute nodes for display.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the video output is presented at the one or more third compute nodes with a different resolution than a resolution at which the first video game instance is presented.