US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on Nov. 18 for "Filling in frames using prediction for when connection drops" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,429, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Filling in frames using prediction for when connection drops" was invented by Steven Osman (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jorge Arroyo Palacios (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system for providing streaming content of a video game at a client device includes receiving frames of streaming content from a game server. The frames represent a current game state. The frames are analyzed to generate predicted frames that are likely to occur following the current frames. The predicted frames are stored in a prediction frame buffer and...