Spectator feedback and adaptation

• US 9,814,987 B1
• Filed: 12/22/2014
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• 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:
  US14/579,033
• Time in Patent Office: 1,058 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 for providing video game content 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;

collecting at least one of audio or video information associated with a content item;

transmitting data including the at least one of audio or video information to one or more spectator compute nodes for presentation, wherein at least one participant user controls one or more entities within the content item;

receiving, from at least one of the one or more spectator compute nodes, information associated with spectator feedback comprising a request associated with at least one of the one or more entities controlled by the at least one participant user; and

providing at least part of the information associated with spectator feedback to at least a first content item instance, wherein the first content item instance is presented to the at least one participant user based, at least in part, on the information associated with spectator feedback.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback comprises at least one of a spectator vote or a spectator wager corresponding to the content item.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein a first spectator is provided with one or more options to perform at least one of selecting or de-selecting one or more types of spectator feedback that are available to be provided by one or more other spectators.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback 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. A computer-implemented method for providing content comprising:

collecting at least one of audio or video information associated with a content item, wherein at least one participant user controls one or more entities within the content item;

transmitting data including the at least one of audio or video information to one or more spectator compute nodes for presentation;

receiving, from at least one of the one or more spectator compute nodes, information associated with spectator feedback regarding at least one of the one or more entities controlled by the at least one participant user; and

providing at least part of the information associated with spectator feedback to at least a first content item instance, wherein the first content item instance is presented to the at least one participant user based, at least in part, on the information associated with spectator feedback.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving, from one or more first compute nodes, information associated with the first content item instance; and

providing the information associated with the first content item instance as input to a second content item instance executed by one or more second compute nodes, wherein the at least one of audio or video information associated with the content item comprises at least one of audio or video information associated with the second content item instance.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the at least one of audio or video information associated with the content item comprises at least one of audio or video information associated with the first content item instance.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback comprises at least one of a spectator vote or a spectator wager corresponding to the content item.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein a first spectator is provided with one or more options to perform at least one of selecting or de-selecting one or more types of spectator feedback that are available to be provided by one or more other spectators.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback comprises a request associated with at least one of an event, a character, or an object within the content item.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback 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 computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback comprises a request to initiate, terminate or modify an act of nature that is simulated within the content item.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback is used to at least partially control generation of at least one of audio, video, or other data by the first content item instance.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback is further provided as input to an additional application associated with the first content item instance.

15. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon instructions that, upon execution by one or more compute nodes, cause the one or more compute nodes to perform operations comprising:

collecting at least one of audio or video information associated with a content item, wherein at least one participant user controls one or more entities within the content item;

transmitting data including the at least one of audio or video information to one or more spectator compute nodes for presentation;

receiving, from at least one of the one or more spectator compute nodes, information associated with spectator feedback regarding at least one of the one or more entities controlled by the at least one participant user; and

providing at least part of the information associated with spectator feedback to at least a first content item instance, wherein the first content item instance is presented to the at least one participant user based, at least in part, on the information associated with spectator feedback.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, from one or more first compute nodes, information associated with the first content item instance; and

providing the information associated with the first content item instance as input to a second content item instance executed by one or more second compute nodes, wherein the at least one of audio or video information associated with the content item comprises at least one of audio or video information associated with the second content item instance.

17. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein the at least one of audio or video information associated with the content item comprises at least one of audio or video information associated with the first content item instance.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback comprises at least one of a spectator vote or a spectator wager corresponding to the content item.

19. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein a first spectator is provided with one or more options to perform at least one of selecting or de-selecting one or more types of spectator feedback that are available to be provided by one or more other spectators.

20. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback comprises a request associated with at least one of an event, a character, or an object within the content item.

21. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback 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.

22. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback comprises a request to initiate, terminate or modify an act of nature that is simulated within the content item.

23. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback is used to at least partially control generation of at least one of audio, video, or other data by the first content item instance.

24. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein the information associated with spectator feedback is further provided as input to an additional application associated with the first content item instance.