Emily A Adams

US Patent:

8382591, Feb 26, 2013

Filed:

Jan 28, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/016785

Inventors:

Michael Toy - Los Altos CA, US
Emily Adams - Mountain View CA, US
Stephen G. Perlman - Palo Alto CA, US

Assignee:

OL2, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

International Classification:

A63F 9/24

US Classification:

463 37

Abstract:

A touch-screen apparatus comprises: a touch-screen display for displaying images and receiving user input in response to a user touching the touch screen display; a network interface for establishing a network connection with a gaming server executing a video game in response to user input from the apparatus, the gaming server compressing video output from the video game to generate interactive compressed streaming video, and transmitting the interactive compressed streaming video generated by the video game over the network connection to the touch-screen apparatus; a touch-screen graphical user interface (GUI) comprising: a plurality of user input elements providing user input in response to the user selecting the user input elements on the touch screen display; wherein the user input is transmitted from the touch-screen apparatus to the gaming server to control the execution of the video game.

US Patent:

20130190083, Jul 25, 2013

Filed:

Feb 26, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/777805

Inventors:

Michael Toy - Los Altos CA, US
Emily Adams - Mountain View CA, US
Stephen G. Perlman - Palo Alto CA, US

International Classification:

A63F 13/06

US Classification:

463 31

Abstract:

A touch-screen apparatus and method are described for controlling an online video game. For example, one embodiment of a touch-screen apparatus comprises: a touch-screen display for displaying images and receiving user input in response to a user touching the touch screen display; a network interface for establishing a network connection with a gaming server executing a video game in response to user input from the apparatus, the gaming server compressing video output from the video game to generate interactive compressed streaming video, and transmitting the interactive compressed streaming video generated by the video game over the network connection to the touch-screen apparatus; a memory for storing program code and a processor for processing the program code to generate a touch-screen graphical user interface (GUI) comprising: a plurality of user input elements providing user input in response to the user selecting the user input elements on the touch screen display; wherein the user input is transmitted from the touch-screen apparatus to the gaming server to control the execution of the video game.

US Patent:

20130324242, Dec 5, 2013

Filed:

Mar 12, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/797209

Inventors:

Joshuah Vincent - Mountain View CA, US
Nico Benitez - Mountain View CA, US
Emily Adams - Mountain View CA, US
Jan Chong - Mountain View CA, US
Ryan Cook - Mountain View CA, US

International Classification:

A63F 13/00

US Classification:

463 31

Abstract:

A system, method, and graphical user interface for entering text using a game controller. The game controller can be physical or virtual. One embodiment of a graphical user interface (GUI) for entering text with a game controller comprises: an N×M matrix of selectable graphical elements, each of the graphical elements having X alphanumeric characters associated therewith, each of the X alphanumeric characters visually associated with a graphic corresponding to an input button on the game controller; a highlighter graphic moveable between each of the N×M matrix of selectable graphical elements using the game controller; wherein when a particular one of the N×M selectable graphical elements is highlighted with the highlight graphic, a user may enter an alphanumeric character by selecting the input button associated with the graphic corresponding to the input button within the highlighted graphical element.

US Patent:

20130342460, Dec 26, 2013

Filed:

Mar 12, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/797039

Inventors:

Joshuah Vincent - Mountain View CA, US
Nico Benitez - Mountain View CA, US
Emily Adams - Mountain View CA, US
Jan Chong - Mountain View CA, US
Ryan Cook - Mountain View CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/0338

US Classification:

345161

Abstract:

A system, method, and graphical user interface for playing games and/or executing applications on a tablet-based client. One embodiment of a graphical user interface (GUI) for playing a video game on a tablet-based client device comprises: a virtual controller rendered on a display of the tablet computer, the virtual controller substantially mimicking the control provided by a thumb stick of a physical game controller and providing omnidirectional, free-form movement in a synchronous direction in which a user moves a finger on the display of the tablet-based client.