Unique Digital Article Challenge System Using Real-World Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current online gaming platforms lack a robust system for enabling challenges between unique digital articles, such as in-game player-controllable characters, that are evaluated based on real-world information, leading to limited engagement and value proposition for players.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that integrate an online gaming platform with a registry server and real-world information server to facilitate challenges between unique digital articles, allowing players to define objectives and stakes using real-world information, with executable code evaluating the challenges and distributing stakes accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If challenges between unique digital articles are enabled with real-world information evaluation, then player engagement and value proposition are improved, but system complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into distinct functional modules: an online gaming platform for challenge initiation and player interaction, a registry server for storing and managing unique digital articles and their metadata, and a real-world information server for providing external data. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in specific tasks, improving overall system adaptability while managing complexity through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The registry server acts as an intermediary between the online gaming platform and the real-world information server. It stores usage information and executable code that control sensitivity to real-world events, mediating the interaction between game challenges and external information while isolating the gaming platform from direct complexity of real-world data integration.
2Measurement precision
If executable code is recorded on permanent registry to evaluate challenges based on real-world information, then challenge evaluation accuracy is improved, but information storage and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Executable code and usage information are pre-recorded on the permanent registry before challenges occur. This code contains the logic for evaluating challenges based on real-world information, allowing accurate evaluation to be performed automatically when challenges are initiated, without requiring complex real-time processing or additional storage during active gameplay.
Solution Approach 2:
The registry server automatically executes the stored code to evaluate challenges based on real-world information from the real-world information server. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for manual evaluation processes and reduces the information processing burden on the online gaming platform, as the registry independently handles evaluation logic.
3Ease of operation
If sensitivity control for unique digital articles is implemented through usage information, then player control and strategic depth are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The usage information stored on the registry server serves multiple functions: it controls the sensitivity of unique digital articles to real-world events, manages player permissions and ownership, and provides the executable code for challenge evaluation. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate complex systems for each function, simplifying overall device architecture while maintaining player control capabilities.
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AI summary
Systems and methods to effectuate challenges between unique digital articles, the challenges being evaluated based on particular real-world information, are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players, including a first and a second player account associated with a first and a second player; present a first user interface to a first player that enables the first player to define an objective for a challenge between a first and a second unique digital article, define one or more stakes for this challenge, and invite the second player to partake in this challenge, record executable code on a permanent registry to evaluate the challenge, based on real-world information; and responsive to the first or second unique digital article winning the challenge, distribute the one or more stakes to the first or second player, respectively.