Two Sony patents have popped up, and one of them is about PlayStation Experience, shortened to PSX.
No, we are not talking about the shortened name of the first PlayStation that many people use (instead of PS1, it’s PSX), and no, not the Japan-only, PlayStation 2-based digital video recorder either. The United States Patent and Trademark Office received the trademark for PSX by Sony on June 11. The last PSX was held in Bangkok, Thailand in 2018, and the last one in the US was held in late 2017.
Here’s the abstract for the patent: „Arranging, organizing, and conducting exhibitions and conferences in the fields of entertainment and video games for non-business purposes and non-commercial purposes; Arranging and organizing online shows featuring video game playing and news; Entertainment services, namely, live performances featuring video game playing and news; Educational services, namely, conducting conferences, meeting, and networking events for professionals and consumers in the field of gaming; Entertainment services like providing news and information on current events and gaming via the internet, websites, podcasts, webcasts, webisodes, blogs, and videos. The applicant has a bona fide intention, and is entitled, to use the mark in commerce on or in connection with the identified goods/services.” In other words, it’s a regular event. Nothing out of the ordinary.
But there’s another patent by Sony, which reveals that they want to overhaul the PlayStation 5‘s user interface. The system would prioritize notifications depending on the user’s activity, and some that are irrelevant to the things they do would not be displayed. (For instance, you might not see a friend request while watching Netflix.)
The abstract explains it nicely: „Techniques for managing notifications are described. In an example, a computing device presents content in an application window based on an execution of an application. Notification data is received by a computing device. Based on a context associated with the computing device, such as whether the application window is the foreground and whether the notification data is associated with the application or such as the operational mode of the computing device, a determination is made whether to present a corresponding notification in-context within the application window or in a pop-up window. Otherwise, the notification is added to a notification list and can be summarized in a notification summary.”
We wonder what Sony will do with the PlayStation Experience. As they have skipped E3 for years, they might walk their way and have a separate event for themselves… even though they have been focusing on State of Play broadcasts recently.
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