Cross-Application Invitation Management for Incompatible Game Accounts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of non-SNS applications with incompatible accounts cannot provide or receive connected services, preventing users from inviting companions to games played on different applications.
Innovation Solution
A terminal apparatus and method that manages identification information across multiple application systems, allowing users to associate accounts and send invitations between different applications, enabling users to recognize and respond to invitations across incompatible game platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If accounts in different applications are kept incompatible and managed separately, then each application maintains its own user management system and security model, but users cannot invite companions from one application to another application
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an invitation information management unit as an intermediary component that bridges incompatible account systems across different applications. This mediator stores and manages invitation information, enabling users to send and receive invitations between applications with incompatible accounts without requiring direct integration between the account systems. The intermediary resolves the contradiction by adding cross-application functionality while maintaining the independence of individual application account systems.
2Ease of operation
If a unified account system is implemented across multiple applications, then users can easily invite companions across applications, but each application loses its independent user management control and compatibility
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the user management system into two independent parts: individual application account systems and a separate invitation information management unit. Each application maintains its own account management and security model, while the invitation system operates as a separate module that handles cross-application invitations. This segmentation allows applications to retain independence while enabling cross-application functionality through the dedicated invitation management segment.
3Reliability
If invitation information is stored locally in each application, then each application has full control over its invitation system, but users cannot receive or send invitations across applications with incompatible accounts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the invitation information management functionality into a centralized unit that serves multiple applications. Instead of each application maintaining separate local invitation systems, the merged invitation information management unit stores and manages invitation information for all applications, enabling reliable invitation delivery across incompatible account systems while reducing overall system complexity through consolidation.
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AI summary
A terminal apparatus includes an inquiry unit that sends an inquiry, from a game used in the terminal apparatus among at least two games provided by an application system, about an invitation to another game, to an invitation information management unit of a management apparatus; an invitation information receiving unit that receives invitation information corresponding to the inquiry; and a display control unit that displays, on a display unit, details of the invitation according to the invitation information.