Sony patents cloud game server that pauses when connection drops
Sony describes a system for cloud gaming that monitors the internet connection between its servers and a player's device. If the connection fails for a specific amount of time, the server automatically stops running the game and halts the flow of control data from the player.
In the filing’s own words
Provided are a stop control device, a stop control method, and a program capable of reducing a disadvantage which is caused by temporal deterioration of a communication situation and suffered by a user. A server-side monitoring section ( 26) monitors a communication situation between a cloud server ( 10) that executes game processing in a streaming game and a terminal ( 12) on which a moving image representing a play situation in the streaming game that is generated by execution of the game processing is displayed. A server-side game processing control section ( 28) controls whether or not the game processing being executed by the cloud server ( 10) is to be stopped, according to the communication situation.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A server comprising: one or more processors configured to: execute game processing in a streaming game for a terminal device; monitor a communication status between the server and the terminal device, wherein the terminal device displays an image generated by the game processing; and stop executing the game processing upon detecting a failure in the communication status between the server and the terminal device for a predetermined length of time, wherein, when the game processing is stopped, transmission of operation data relating to the streaming game from the terminal device to the server is stopped.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- STOP CONTROL DEVICE, STOP CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM
- Publication number
- US20260325963A1
- Application number
- 19723401
- Filed
- Jun 29, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A63F 13/493 Human necessitiesA63F 13/30 Human necessitiesA63F 13/335 Human necessitiesA63F 13/355 Human necessitiesA63F 13/358 Human necessitiesA63F 13/48 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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