Game Mediation Infrastructure for Multiplayer Session Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multiplayer electronic games face challenges in coordinating gameplay among players, including difficulties in launching games together, navigation, control issues, and lack of real-time communication, which hinder the communal gaming experience.
Innovation Solution
A game mediation infrastructure comprising client devices, a game mediator server, and a game server connected by a network, enabling the creation of lobbies for game sessions, deep links for resource access, and communication channels for real-time interaction, allowing seamless multiplayer gameplay across various devices and platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If players use separate devices to play multiplayer games, then device compatibility and accessibility are improved, but coordination difficulty and communication challenges increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a game mediation infrastructure comprising a game mediator server and client-side game mediators that act as intermediaries between players on different devices. This mediator handles session coordination, player matching, and communication facilitation, thereby resolving the coordination difficulties that arise when players use separate devices while maintaining device compatibility and accessibility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If players launch games independently on their own devices, then device autonomy and flexibility are improved, but session synchronization and coordinated launch become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary actions through the game mediator server that establishes session parameters, player configurations, and synchronization protocols before players actually launch their games. The mediator pre-coordinates all necessary elements including game mode selection, player roles, and communication channels, so that when players independently launch their games, synchronization occurs automatically without time loss.
3Adaptability or versatility
If players are not within speaking distance of each other, then physical space flexibility is improved, but real-time communication capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The game mediation infrastructure establishes digital communication channels through the game mediator that enable real-time voice and text communication between players regardless of their physical locations. The mediator server manages audio streams, chat functionality, and communication protocols, allowing players to maintain real-time interaction while enjoying the flexibility of playing from any physical location with network connectivity.
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AI summary
Within a multiplayer gaming environment, a game mediation infrastructure facilitates the creation and use of multiplayer gaming sessions. The game mediation infrastructure allows leveraging the context of an existing gameplay session within a game (e.g., the game being played, the identities of the participants) to begin a corresponding session in a game mediator application. The session in the game mediator application provides functionality—such as game-related communication capabilities—that is superior to that provided by the game itself. These actions by the game mediation infrastructure reduce or eliminate steps that would otherwise have to be performed by users, thereby greatly simplifying user coordination for multiplayer gaming.