ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,156, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.
"Online video game service with split clients" was invented by Tim Cotter (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for an online video game or application service system includes running a video game or application on an application host server at a data center, an uncompressed video stream being produced therefrom. The uncompressed video stream is encoded into compressed video stream, which is then transmitted over the Internet to an output client device of a user. The output client device decompresses the compressed video stream and displays...