Application Execution State Verification for Bulletin Board Credibility

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Solution Overview

Problem

In information processing systems, the lack of restrictions on posting and browsing on bulletin boards can lead to decreased credibility of posted information, as users can freely post without meeting specific conditions.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that includes a server and client apparatus with an execution state determination unit and a writing management unit, where only users who have reached a predetermined state in an application are allowed to write on the server, enhancing the credibility of the information by ensuring that only qualified users contribute.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If free access to bulletin board posting is allowed, then ease of operation is improved, but information credibility deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of postingVSAvoidinformation credibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary verification of the user's application execution state before permitting posting actions. The execution state determination unit checks whether the user has completed the required application execution as a prerequisite condition, allowing only verified users to post on the bulletin board. This preliminary action ensures information credibility while maintaining ease of operation for qualified users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If posting restrictions based on application execution state are implemented, then information credibility is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation credibilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the posting control function into distinct modular units: an execution state determination unit that verifies application completion status, and a writing management unit that permits or denies posting based on verification results. This segmentation allows the complexity to be localized to specific functional modules while keeping the overall system structure clear and maintainable, achieving information credibility without excessive system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10791198B2Information processing system, storage medium having stored therein information processing program, information processing apparatus, and information processing method
Publication Date: 2020.09.29 NINTENDO CO LTD
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AI summary

In an example information processing system including a server and at least one apparatus capable of communicating with the server, the apparatus includes at least an application execution unit. The application execution unit executes a predetermined application. The system includes, by either one of the apparatus and the server or by a cooperation of the apparatus and the server, an execution state determination unit and a writing management unit. The execution state determination unit determines whether or not a state of the execution performed by the application execution unit has satisfied a predetermined condition. The writing management unit, when the state has satisfied the predetermined condition, permits a user of the apparatus to write in information managed by the server.