DATA STREAMING FOR INTERACTIVE DECISION-ORIENTED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

• US 20140344246A1
• Filed: 06/05/2014
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Happy Cloud, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Happy Cloud, Inc.
• Inventors: RAANAN, GAVRIEL, REISLER, LAWRENCE
• Application Number:
  US14/296,636
• Publication Number:
  US 20140344246A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/718
• 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 13/60 Generating or modifying game content before or while executing the game program, e.g. authoring tools specially adapted for game development or game-integrated level editor
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/77 involving data related to game devices or game servers, e.g. configuration data, software version or amount of memory
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/209 characterized by low level software layer, relating to hardware management, e.g. Operating System, Application Programming Interface
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/552 for downloading to client devices, e.g. using OS version, hardware or software profile of the client device
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5526 Game data structure
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6009 for importing or creating game content, e.g. authoring tools during game development, adapting content to different platforms, use of a scripting language to create content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24542 Plan optimisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24568 Data stream processing; Continuous queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57

Abstract

Providing data to a computer software application by intercepting a request made by a computer software application to retrieve a first data set from a first data storage location, accessing a record, defined in advance of the request, that includes a reference to the first data set and a reference to a second data set, retrieving the first data set from a data storage location other than the first data storage location, and retrieving the second data set from a data storage location other than the first data storage location in advance of a request by the computer software application to access the second data set at the first data storage location.

Claims

1. A method for providing data to a computer software application, the method comprising:

comparing

a) a first record that refers to a first set of data requested during a first execution of a computer software application, to

b) a second record that refers to a second set of data requested during the first execution of the computer software application;

identifying a data portion that is common to the first and second sets of data;

modifying the first record to omit from the first set any reference to the data portion;

modifying the second record to omit from the second set any reference to the data portion;

creating a third record that refers to a third set of data that includes the data portion; and

associating the first, second, and third records with a data retrieval plan for providing data during a subsequent execution of the computer software application.

2. The method of claim 1 and further comprising associating any of the records with a rule determining a) if and how data that are referred to in the record are to be retrieved, and b) if and how data that are referred to in any of the other records are to be retrieved.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said comparing, identifying, modifying, creating, and associating are implemented in any of

a) computer hardware and

b) computer software embodied in a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium.

5. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the computer-readable program code is configured to associate any of the records with a rule determining a) if and how data that are referred to in the record are to be retrieved, and b) if and how data that are referred to in any of the other records are to be retrieved.

4. A computer program product for providing data to a computer software application, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium; and

computer-readable program code embodied in the computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable program code is configured to

compare

a) a first record that refers to a first set of data requested during a first execution of a computer software application, to

b) a second record that refers to a second set of data requested during the first execution of the computer software application,

identify a data portion that is common to the first and second sets of data,

modify the first record to omit from the first set any reference to the data portion,

modify the second record to omit from the second set any reference to the data portion,

create a third record that refers to a third set of data that includes the data portion, and

associate the first, second, and third records with a data retrieval plan for providing data during a subsequent execution of the computer software application.