Data Restriction Sharing Across Game Apparatuses

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems for filtering out undesirable data, such as those disclosed in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2002-335288, fail to effectively share and enforce data restrictions across multiple apparatuses, allowing inappropriate content to still be viewed by users.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that includes identification information reception, storage, transmission, and output management, allowing apparatuses to share and enforce data restrictions by identifying and preventing the output of inappropriate data based on shared identification information, with optional features like wireless communication and server administration for collective identification updates.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a black list database is stored locally in each apparatus, then the apparatus can filter out nuisance data independently, but the database cannot be shared with other apparatuses and users cannot prevent viewing of inappropriate contents across the system

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to prevent viewing of inappropriate contentsVSAvoidsharing of identification information between apparatuses

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the identification information databases of multiple apparatuses by having each apparatus transmit its stored identification information to other apparatuses. This combining approach allows all apparatuses to access the collective blacklist, enabling system-wide filtering of inappropriate contents while maintaining local filtering capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The identification information stored in each apparatus is designed to be universally applicable across all apparatuses in the system. By transmitting and sharing this identification information, the same blacklist data serves multiple apparatuses simultaneously, allowing a single database to perform the filtering function system-wide rather than being confined to a single device.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If identification information is transmitted to other apparatuses, then the latest identification information can be shared and inappropriate data prevented from being provided to other users, but additional communication overhead and potential information loss are introduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to prevent inappropriate data provision to other usersVSAvoidcommunication overhead for transmitting identification information

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential identification information (such as mail addresses or data identifiers) from the complete blacklist database for transmission to other apparatuses. By transmitting only the critical identifying elements rather than the entire database, the system reduces communication overhead and energy consumption while still enabling effective filtering at receiving apparatuses.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Loss of information

If a system-wide shared database is implemented, then information regarding data that should not be provided can be shared across all apparatuses, but the system complexity and difficulty of maintaining synchronization increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesharing of data restriction information across apparatusesVSAvoidsystem architecture for sharing and synchronizing identification information

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the centralized database sharing function into individual apparatus-level operations. Each apparatus maintains its own local identification information database and independently transmits updates to other apparatuses. This segmentation avoids the complexity of a fully centralized system while achieving system-wide information sharing through distributed, autonomous updates from each node.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS9311497B2Computer-readable storage medium having stored information processing program therein, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system

Publication Date: 2016.04.12 NINTENDO CO LTD

AI summary

An information processing apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium having stored an information processing program therein, an information processing method, and an information processing system, which can share, with another apparatus, information regarding data which should not be provided to a user, are provided. The number of times of reporting of data including a contents, which should not be provided to the user, from each game apparatus included in a system, is counted on the basis of information assigned to the data. When the counted value becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold, the information is added and registered to identification information. The identification information is transmitted from a server of the system to each information processing apparatus, and used in each information processing apparatus.