Spectator mode for a game

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2005-11-21

2009-12-15

Vo, Peter DungBa (Department: 3714)

Amusement devices: games

Including means for processing electronic data

With communication link

C463S029000, C463S042000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07632186

ABSTRACT:
Methods and systems for broadcasting game sessions to be viewable by spectators are disclosed. In addition to sending telemetry data to other game clients participating in a game session, one or more game clients in the game session also sends the game telemetry data to a title server for the video game being played. The title server analyzes and repackages the received telemetry data and rebroadcasts the repackaged telemetry as a spectator feed to non-participant spectator client devices for viewing by users of the spectator client devices. Each spectator client device can analyze and manipulate the received telemetry data using a copy of the video game executing on the spectator client device, or may simply playback the feed when the feed includes a complete audiovisual file.

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