Cross-Platform Gameplay Currency Exchange for Unified Player Credits
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic gaming systems operate in silos, preventing cross-platform interoperability and fragmentation of gaming assets and credits across different platforms such as mobile gaming, electronic gaming machines, and online gaming.
Innovation Solution
A central server or cloud-based platform (CxPlay) facilitates cross-platform gameplay by integrating player accounts, providing a unified currency, and enabling exchange of gaming assets across different platforms through an application programming interface (API) and improved user interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If gaming systems operate on separate platforms (mobile, EGM, online), then each platform can maintain its own independent gaming ecosystem and credit system, but cross-platform interoperability is lost and gaming assets are fragmented across platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a cross-platform credit exchange system that acts as an intermediary between different gaming platforms (mobile, EGM, online). This mediator enables credit portability across platforms by translating and reconciling different credit systems, allowing players to transfer credits seamlessly while maintaining the independence of each platform's underlying architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal credit representation that can function across multiple gaming platforms simultaneously. A single credit asset can be used on mobile devices, electronic gaming machines, and online platforms, providing multi-functional utility without requiring each platform to be redesigned. This universal credit layer enables cross-platform gameplay while preserving platform-specific features.
2Ease of operation
If a unified cross-platform system is implemented, then credit portability and player connectivity across platforms are enabled, but system complexity and integration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the credit exchange functionality into distinct modular components: platform-specific credit management modules, a central credit exchange coordinator, and communication interfaces. This segmentation allows each platform to maintain its own credit system while the coordinator handles cross-platform transactions, reducing overall system complexity through functional decomposition.
Solution Approach 2:
A central credit exchange server acts as an intermediary that manages the complexity of cross-platform credit transfers. This mediator handles credit validation, conversion, and reconciliation between different platforms, shielding individual platforms from the complexity of direct integration while enabling seamless credit portability for users.
3Adaptability or versatility
If platform-specific credit systems are maintained, then each platform can optimize its credit management independently, but credit fragmentation prevents players from utilizing credits across different gaming environments
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a standardized credit representation format that homogenizes credit data across different platforms. By establishing a common credit structure with standardized attributes (value, currency, validity), the system enables universal recognition of credit assets while allowing platform-specific extensions. This homogeneity ensures that credit information is preserved and recognized across all gaming environments.
Solution Approach 2:
The credit exchange system implements feedback mechanisms that track and verify credit transfers across platforms. When credits are transferred or redeemed on one platform, the system provides feedback to update the player's credit balance and validate the transaction. This feedback loop ensures credit value integrity and prevents duplication or loss of credit assets during cross-platform operations.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and technique for providing multi-platform gameplay is provided. A cross-platform gameplay server receives wager data from different platforms in different currencies. Based on a gaming outcome, the cross-platform gameplay server manages game play in different currencies to facilitate cross-platform gameplay. Exchange rates are determined between a universal currency and game play currencies, and reward data is stored by the cross-platform gameplay server in the universal currency. A user interface is provided for a gaming application on a first platform, which supports interaction with a remote player on a remote device using a second platform. A cross-platform play region is presented on a user face to provide interaction with remote players using a cross-platform functionality of an application.