Netflix filed 1 patent in the UI/UX category.
The application covers an adaptive feedback system designed for smartphone-based gaming controllers. This technology tailors haptic, Audio, and visual feedback signatures in real time based on individual device capabilities and player preferences.
The single UI/UX patent addresses a challenge inherent to using smartphones as game controllers: the wide variation in Hardware capabilities across different devices. Netflix developed a system that orchestrates haptic vibrations, sounds, and visual cues in response to game events, but adapts these feedback signatures to match what each phone can actually deliver. The approach includes a prioritization framework that categorizes game events and ensures that feedback remains perceptually distinct even when a device lacks certain capabilities, allowing the system to degrade gracefully rather than fail outright. This solves a problem that previous second-screen controller implementations left unaddressed, where feedback either worked perfectly on high-end devices or fell apart on older Hardware.
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