Nvidia patents system that checks if you are still playing a game
Nvidia describes a method for streaming gaming sessions that checks if a player is still active by looking at both button presses and other sensor data. If you stop touching the controller, the system uses additional signals to decide if you are still engaged or if the session should end.
In the filing’s own words
In various examples, monitoring user interactions for content streaming systems and applications is described herein. For instance, a system(s) that is providing content to a device, such as during an online session associated with an application, may receive sensor data from the device and then use the sensor data to determine whether a user is interacting with the application. The sensor data may include image data representing the user, audio data representing from the user, location data representing a location of the user, input data representing one or more inputs from the user, and/or the like. The system(s) may then determine whether to continue the session or terminate the session based at least on whether the user is interacting with the application. For example, the system(s) may determine to terminate the session based at least on the user not interacting with the application for a threshold amount of time.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: establishing, between a remote system and a user device, a session associated with a gaming application; sending, during the session and to the user device, content data representative of content associated with the gaming application; receiving, during the session and from the user device, input data associated with a physical contact interaction with one or more input devices of the user device to cause an action associated with the gaming application, and sensor data associated with a non-physical contact interaction; determining, using at least the input data, an absence of the physical contact interaction during a period of time of the session; in response to the absence of the physical contact interaction during the period of time, determining, using at least the sensor data, whether a user was still interacting with the content using the non-physical contact interaction and during the period of time; and causing, based at least on whether the user was still interacting with the content using the non-physical contact interaction and during the period of time, one or more operations associated with the session to occur.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
- Official title
- User activity detection
- Patent number
- US12739468B2
- Application number
- 18426631
- Filed
- Jan 30, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04N 21/44218 Electricity & electronicsSummaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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