US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 23 for "Server device and event data processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,180, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Server device and event data processing method" was invented by Takayuki Ishida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A play time acquisition unit 212 acquires a play time of an activity by a plurality of players from event data indicating a start of the activity and event data indicating an end of the activity that are recorded in an event data recording unit 250. A distribution generation unit 222 divides the plurality of players who have executed the activity into a plurality of groups according to the play time. A class sorting unit 224 sorts ...