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Sony patents seamless switch for wireless game controllers between network hosts

Sony describes a system for gaming setups that uses multiple network hosts to keep wireless controllers connected to a console. The system monitors the network and automatically moves the connection from one host to another if needed, ensuring the controller stays linked without interruption.

Why it mattersThis could help prevent lag or disconnections in complex home gaming setups by managing the wireless link more intelligently.

In the filing’s own words

A method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for migrating connectivity signals of a gaming computer network in a gaming environment. The computer network includes multiple hosts and wireless peripheral devices, each host having a respective wired connection to the electronic gaming device, each peripheral device wirelessly connected to the electronic gaming device. The hosts are configured to maintain connectivity between the peripheral devices and the electronic gaming device. The approach includes determining status information of the computer network and receiving, from at least one wireless peripheral device, signals including feature data. The approach includes determining, based on the status information and the signals, a migration of connectivity signals for maintaining connection of a wireless peripheral device to the electronic gaming device, from the first host to a second host different from the first host. The approach includes migrating the connectivity signals from the first host to the second host.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining status information of a gaming computer network in a gaming environment, wherein the gaming computer network comprises multiple hosts and one or more wireless peripheral devices in the gaming environment, wherein each of the multiple hosts comprises a respective wired connection to an electronic gaming device, wherein each of the one or more wireless peripheral devices is wirelessly connected to the electronic gaming device, and wherein the multiple hosts are configured to maintain connectivity between the one or more wireless peripheral devices and the electronic gaming device; receiving, from at least one wireless peripheral device of the one or more wireless peripheral devices, signals comprising feature data of the gaming environment; determining, based on the status information and the signals, a migration from a first host in the multiple hosts to a second host in the multiple hosts different from the first host, wherein migrating from the first host to the second host comprises migrating connectivity signals for maintaining connection of a first wireless peripheral device from the one or more wireless peripheral devices to the electronic gaming device from the first host to the second host, wherein the first host comprises a wired connection to the second host; and migrating the connectivity signals for maintaining connection of the first wireless peripheral device to the electronic gaming device from the first host to the second host.

Facts

Company
Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
Official title
MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE HOSTS WITH PREDICTIVE AND SEAMLESS HOST MIGRATION
Publication number
US20260273398A1
Application number
19079206
Filed
Mar 13, 2025
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
20

Classified under

A63F 13/358 Human necessitiesA63F 13/327 Human necessities
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