Sony patents game consoles that adjust functions based on power usage
Sony describes a system where a gaming console monitors its own electrical power consumption or supply. The device analyzes this data to identify specific time patterns and then automatically triggers a function during those selected periods.
In the filing’s own words
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling an electronic gaming system are featured. One of the methods includes obtaining receiving electrical energy data associated with one or more electrical energy sources for the electronic gaming system, the electrical energy data comprising electrical energy usage data or electrical energy supply data associated with the one or more electrical energy sources, determining, based on at least the electrical energy data for the one or more electrical energy sources, a time-varying attribute of the one or more electrical energy sources, selecting, based on at least the time-varying attribute of the one or more electrical energy sources, a period of time, and causing the electronic gaming system to initiate a function during the selected period of time.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method for controlling an electronic gaming system, the method comprising: receiving electrical energy data associated with one or more electrical energy sources for the electronic gaming system, the electrical energy data comprising electrical energy usage data or electrical energy supply data associated with the one or more electrical energy sources; determining, based on at least the electrical energy data for the one or more electrical energy sources, a time-varying attribute of the one or more electrical energy sources; selecting, based on at least the time-varying attribute of the one or more electrical energy sources, a period of time; and causing the electronic gaming system to initiate a function during the selected period of time.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC GAMING SYSTEM
- Publication number
- US20260315912A1
- Application number
- 19174502
- Filed
- Apr 9, 2025
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 29
Classified under
A63F 13/24 Human necessitiesMore from Sony in Games & media
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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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