US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on Oct. 7 for "Application process context compression and replay" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,677, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Application process context compression and replay" was invented by Jason Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Application state data from a main memory may be compressed and the compressed data may be written to a first location in a mass storage. Updated application state data is generated, and the updated application state data is compressed from the main memory. The updated application state data is then written to a second location in the mass storage. Processing may then be paused on the application state data and updated appli...