Cloud Leaderboard System for Single-Player Game Challenges
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming technologies lack the ability to enable users to compete in challenges without modifying single-player gaming applications, limiting the interactive and competitive aspects of gaming experiences.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows users to create, issue, and participate in gaming challenges using cloud-based leaderboards, where participants can be invited to play specific games, with customizable challenge types, durations, and avatars, without requiring modifications to the gaming applications, and where winners are determined by leaderboard rankings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users want to enable competitive challenges in single-player gaming applications, then user interaction and engagement are improved, but the gaming application requires modifications which increases device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud-based leaderboard service as an intermediary between the single-player gaming application and the challenge functionality. This mediator handles all challenge coordination, ranking management, and communication between players, allowing the gaming application itself to remain unmodified while still enabling competitive challenges.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables players to create, manage, and participate in challenges independently through the cloud service interface. Players can invite friends, set challenge parameters, and view rankings without requiring any modification to the gaming application or intervention from game developers.
2Ease of operation
If cloud-based leaderboards are used to determine challenge winners, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information occurs during challenge participation
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors leaderboard rankings and provides real-time feedback to challenge participants. Players receive notifications when their rank changes or when the challenge concludes, ensuring they are informed of their standing without needing to constantly check the leaderboard manually.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud-based leaderboard service pre-configures the ranking system and automatically captures gaming performance data as players complete challenges. This preliminary setup ensures that ranking information is continuously tracked and stored without requiring players to manually input or monitor their standings.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein are technologies that allow users to create, issue, accept and participate in gaming challenges. A gaming challenge involves participants playing a gaming application to improve their rank on a leaderboard associated with the application until challenge conditions are met or the challenge expires. Challenges can be time-based, objective-based, a tournament or of other type. A challenger can create a challenge by specifying a gaming application to be played, the leaderboard to be used in the challenge, challenge type, challenge duration, and additional challenge criteria. A gaming service can maintain the leaderboard and pass challenge-related notifications between participants. Participants' computing devices can send notices indicating when a challenge has been met or when a participant's relative ranking has changed. A challenger or challengee can select an avatar expression for animating an avatar when a challenge request or acceptance or decline of a challenge is presented at a computing device.