Tencent

The 2 Streaming patents both center on making live game broadcasts more dynamic without requiring additional effort from the streamer. One describes a system where AI-powered virtual characters appear during a live stream and react automatically to in-game events or viewer commands, effectively functioning as a semi-autonomous co-host that handles audience interaction in real time. The other addresses competitive Streaming by automatically pairing the broadcast rooms of two players who are battling each other in-game, letting viewers watch both sides of the same match simultaneously without any manual coordination from the streamers themselves.

Cloud gaming accounts for 4 patents, each targeting a different point of inefficiency in how games are delivered and maintained at scale. One patent describes a client-side AI upscaling system where, during poor network conditions, the server sends lower-resolution frames and the player's device reconstructs visual quality locally, keeping the experience coherent without demanding more bandwidth. Another separates cutscene delivery from live gameplay rendering entirely, routing pre-rendered cinematic content through a dedicated server rather than through the GPU-heavy cloud gaming pipeline. A third patent tackles the problem of updating games across massive cloud infrastructure by using visual recognition and automated input simulation to navigate game UIs and apply patches without human intervention. The fourth covers adaptive Streaming for immersive media rendered through game engines, with a caching mechanism that avoids retransmitting 3D assets already delivered to a device, while also adjusting content based on what each device is capable of rendering.

5 UI/UX patents address how players interact with games across console, mobile, and competitive formats. One applies aim-assist logic specifically to skill-shot targeting in MOBA games played with a joystick, automatically snapping the cursor toward valid nearby enemies during the aiming phase before a skill is released. Another expands weapon customization on mobile by introducing a touch-triggered UI that lets players cycle through 3 or more attachments mid-match, rather than toggling between just 2 options. A third patent redesigns how ranked mode progression is rewarded, layering a participation-based milestone system on top of traditional win/loss outcomes so that players earn progression simply by competing in qualifying matches. On the information display side, one patent ties a building's visible level indicator directly to enemy health values in a tower defense context, letting players read combat difficulty from the interface rather than guessing from experience. The fifth patent simplifies sustained movement on touchscreens by allowing a single tap to initiate continuous running, combining posture change and movement into 1 gesture to reduce the number of inputs a player must manage.

The 2 Graphics patents both apply GPU parallelism to processing tasks that traditionally ran on the CPU. One covers color space conversion, using shader pipelines to transform image data between RGB and YUV formats across all pixels simultaneously rather than sequentially. The other applies a similar architectural approach to texture decompression, distributing compressed texture blocks across GPU shader workgroups so they decompress in parallel, reducing CPU load in the process.

Tencent's 1 Networking patent describes a hybrid architecture for large-scale multiplayer games where the boundary between server-side and client-side processing shifts based on what each player can currently see. Game logic for entities outside a player's visible area runs on the server, while logic for visible elements stays on the client, creating a dynamic workload distribution that scales to very large player counts without requiring full server authority over every calculation.

The single AI/ML patent addresses NPC population management in open-world games by using each character's distance from the player as a trigger for switching between behavior trees of different computational weights. NPCs close to the player run more complex AI routines, while those farther away switch to lighter versions, keeping the nearby experience rich while reducing the server cost of simulating large numbers of distant characters.

On the Platforms side, 1 patent describes an anti-cheat mechanism built around chained encryption, where each node in a verification sequence is mathematically derived from the one before it. Because the chain is interdependent, any attempt to alter game data after the fact would break the entire sequence, allowing the server to detect manipulation before accepting a session's results.

The Monetization patent introduces a reward system that adjusts the quantity of in-game resources a player receives during seasonal events based on their ranking, rather than distributing the same amounts to everyone. Players at different skill levels receive different resource bonuses, tying the reward to individual standing rather than applying a flat rate across the player base.