US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on March 18 for "Information processing system, information processing method, information storage medium, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,630, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing method, information storage medium, and program" was invented by Toshiya Ikenaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus provide for at least one of: (i) displaying a list of images on a display of the user terminal device to the user, where each image within the list of images operates as a respective hyperlink to launch the game from a respective play point in the video of the previously played content of the game program, and (ii) each respective image operates such that ...