US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on Jan. 13 for "Methods and system for predicting duration of multi-player game session" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,637, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Methods and system for predicting duration of multi-player game session" was invented by Victoria Dorn (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating game duration metrics includes assembling a gaming session for a game, with the gaming session identifying a first player and a second player, and accessing a database that includes an historical duration metric for playing the game by each of the first player and the second player. The method also includes accessing contextual data related to the gaming session to be played ...