Sony patents game tips that explain why they are suggested
Sony describes a system where a gaming platform uses machine learning to suggest content to players. Unlike standard lists, this system also generates a specific explanation for why each item was chosen based on the player's data.
In the filing’s own words
Techniques include receiving, by a gaming system, user specific data of a user and providing the user specific data to a machine learning model trained to determine a recommendation for a user device of the user, where the user device is integrated with the gaming system. Techniques further include generating the recommendation for the user device along with a reason for the recommendation, where the reason for the recommendation explains why the user is receiving the recommendation. Techniques further include presenting the recommendation and the reason for the recommendation to the user at the user device.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a gaming system including a processor and a memory, user specific data of a user; providing, by the gaming system, the user specific data to a machine learning model trained to determine a recommendation for a user device of the user, wherein the user device is integrated with the gaming system; generating, by the gaming system using the machine learning model, the recommendation for the user device along with a reason for the recommendation, wherein the reason for the recommendation explains why the user is receiving the recommendation; and presenting, by the gaming system, the recommendation and the reason for the recommendation to the user at the user device.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- CONTENT-RELATED RECOMMENDATION AND ASSOCIATED REASONING
- Publication number
- US20260303910A1
- Application number
- 19096343
- Filed
- Mar 31, 2025
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04N 21/4666 Electricity & electronicsA63F 13/67 Human necessitiesH04N 21/4668 Electricity & electronicsH04N 21/4826 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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