Event Management Server Virtual Space Content Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face cumbersome procedures and inflexible event management when sharing electronic content across different locations, with limited control over event details and timing, making it difficult to meet individual demands.

Innovation Solution

An event management server and information processing system that create a virtual communication space, allowing users to plan, manage, and execute events where multiple users can share electronic content, with features for real-time adjustments to start times and content selection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users register for each company and event separately, then event participation is enabled, but the procedure becomes cumbersome and user-friendly experience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveUser registration procedureVSAvoidTime for event preparation
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal account system where a single user ID can access multiple events and content across different providers. The account management server stores user information centrally, enabling one-time registration to participate in various events without repeated registration processes, thus improving ease of operation and reducing time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The account management server acts as an intermediary between users and event management systems. It handles authentication and user information management centrally, allowing users to access events through a unified interface rather than dealing with multiple separate registration systems, thereby simplifying the procedure and saving time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If event details and timing are determined by the organization side, then event management is simplified, but flexibility to meet individual user demands is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveEvent customization flexibilityVSAvoidEvent management system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables dynamic event configuration where users can modify event details such as timing and content selection based on their preferences. The system supports both pre-defined events and user-customizable events, allowing flexible adjustment of event parameters while maintaining manageable system complexity through structured event templates and constraints.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP3422194B1Event management server, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and event realizing method
Publication Date: 2020.07.29 SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
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AI summary

A management server 20 manages an event in which a plurality of users operating different information processing apparatuses 10 share electronic content provided through a network. The management server 20 includes: a communication space control unit 70 that generates a virtual space in which the plurality of users realize communication and that accepts attendance through each information processing apparatus 10; and an event processing unit 68 that receives an operation of starting to share the electronic content in the virtual space through the information processing apparatus 10 and that carries out a process for starting to share the electronic content.