Sony patents mini-games created from recorded gameplay clips
Sony describes a system that lets players pause a cloud game to tag a specific moment in the video. The system then uses that tag to create a short, playable mini-game based on the recorded footage.
In the filing’s own words
Methods for tagging content in a video game title during game play executed on a game cloud system, and social sharing methods. One method includes receiving a pause indication during the game play and suspending the game play to hold the video game title in a current frame image, storing the game state, and receiving the tag data that is associated to a location in the current frame image and to a user identifier for the current frame image. The method further includes generating a video recording of the game play having the tag data and generating a mini-game from a portion of the video game title. The mini-game includes a playable portion to enable view of a portion of the video recording for the mini-game and an executable portion to enable the play of game code for the mini-game that is a portion of the video game title.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: presenting, by one or more servers, a gameplay media segment representing gameplay of an application; receiving, from a client device, a selection associated with the gameplay media segment; identifying executable gameplay state data based at least in part on the selection and associated with a temporal position within the gameplay media segment; instantiating an executable gameplay session using the executable gameplay state data; and causing streaming of the executable gameplay session to the client device, wherein gameplay occurring in the executable gameplay session corresponds to gameplay associated with the gameplay media segment.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
- Official title
- Generating A Mini-Game Of A Video Game From A Game Play Recording
- Publication number
- US20260315918A1
- Application number
- 19720256
- Filed
- Jun 25, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 1
Classified under
A63F 13/355 Human necessitiesA63F 13/493 Human necessitiesA63F 13/60 Human necessitiesA63F 13/86 Human necessitiesA63F 13/335 Human necessitiesA63F 13/69 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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