Digital Representative Module for Wagering Game Synchronization

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Solution Overview

Problem

The electronic wagering game industry lacks a seamless integration of online social communities and real-life wagering game establishments, where digital representatives of players are not effectively influenced by their gaming activities across both platforms, limiting the engagement and entertainment value.

Innovation Solution

A system that allows digital representatives from online wagering game communities to be imported and updated based on real-life wagering game activities in establishments, using a digital representative module that includes an importer, deployer, modifier, and exporter to synchronize data and enhance the gaming experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If digital representatives are imported from online communities to wagering game establishments, then player engagement and entertainment value are enhanced, but system complexity and data synchronization requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveplayer engagementVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A digital representative module is introduced as an intermediary component that manages the import, deployment, modification, and export of digital representative data. This module acts as a mediator between online wagering game communities and real-life wagering game establishments, handling the complexity of data synchronization and maintaining player engagement without requiring direct integration between the two systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If digital representative data is synchronized between online and offline platforms, then integration and entertainment value improve, but data management complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveintegrationVSAvoiddata management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The digital representative module is divided into distinct functional components: an importer for retrieving data from online communities, a deployer for loading data into the wagering game establishment, a modifier for updating data based on gaming activities, and an exporter for sending updated data back to online platforms. This segmentation allows each component to handle specific data management tasks independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive integration capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS8662981B2Wagering game digital representative
Publication Date: 2014.03.04 LNW GAMING INC
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AI summary

A wagering game developer can support an online wager gaming community and provide digital representatives to members to enhance real-life wager gaming experience. A wagering game establishment server imports a digital representative of a wagering game player from the online wager gaming community. The server determines wagering game activity of the wagering game player at one or more electronic wagering game machines. The server determines an update for the digital representative based on the determined wagering game activity of the wagering game player, and then associates the update with the digital representative. The update includes a second executable code. Later, the server exports the digital representative with the second executable code associated therewith to the online wager gaming community.