Platforms & Ecosystems

Cross Game Play received 1 patent describing a system that keeps a player's avatar and its cosmetics consistent across different game engines, using a ledger to track ownership and an offline verification mechanism to confirm credentials even without a network connection. The key piece is what the filing calls a verification plan object, a machine-readable bundle that specifies which identity fields to share, what kind of proof to use, and how fresh the revocation data must be before a check is considered valid. If the revocation snapshot is too old, the validator rejects the authorization outright, even if the underlying proof looks correct, making offline credential checks deterministic rather than defaulting to trust.

Netflix received 1 patent covering a server-side system in which a developer writes a single event definition, complete with a schema, a version identifier, and a unique identifier, and the server uses that definition to generate logging code, route collected records to the right storage systems, and assign each event its own reporting channel. Earlier telemetry approaches described in the filing were unstructured, inconsistent across teams, and prone to landing data in the wrong analytical store. By anchoring all of those decisions to the event definition itself, the system removes those choices from individual telemetry authors.

Microsoft filed 1 patent for a system that tracks when one player completes a game sequence on behalf of another, records that assistance against the recipient's saved game state, and carries any achievements earned during that session forward with a corresponding assistance record attached. What makes the approach distinct is that help is bounded to the player's own save file, so the assisted session starts from that specific state and produces an updated state that reflects both the outcome and the help received. Prior approaches described in the filing, such as forum guides or video walkthroughs, provided help that left no persistent mark on a player's save data or achievement history.

Sony received 3 patents spanning session sharing, collaborative development, and power management. The first describes a share link that encodes both a game identifier and a session identifier, lets the recipient choose their platform through a web interface, and then launches the appropriate platform client and hands over those identifiers to drop the recipient directly into the same multiplayer session, with no requirement that either party be on the other's friends list. The second addresses multi-developer workflows by describing a cloned workspace that copies only the specific block of code a developer is editing and points to everything else in the shared workspace rather than duplicating it, supporting locks and version tracking while keeping one developer's debugging work from disrupting others. The third patent covers a console that reads electricity supply and grid load data for its location, then uses that information to schedule downloads, adjust patch speeds, or reduce frame rate and screen brightness during periods when the available power is less clean or the grid is under strain, with users able to configure which functions apply in which time windows.