Game Operation Right Transfer via Server-Mediated P2P Streaming
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current game image distribution technologies do not provide a seamless real-time streaming and interactive experience for users, limiting the engagement and enjoyment of game play for both distributors and viewers.
Innovation Solution
A system that enables real-time streaming of game images through peer-to-peer connections, allowing users to share and view game play videos, and transfer game operation rights between users, enhancing the interactive experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If real-time streaming of game images is implemented through peer-to-peer connections, then user engagement and interaction are enhanced, but system complexity and network resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that coordinates peer-to-peer connections between distribution terminals and viewing terminals. The server manages connection establishment, signaling, and coordination without handling the actual game data stream, thus enabling complex interactive features while keeping individual terminal devices relatively simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The system divides functionality into distinct segments: the distribution terminal generates and streams game image data, the server manages connection coordination and signaling, and viewing terminals receive and display the streamed content. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in specific tasks, enhancing overall system adaptability while managing complexity through modular architecture.
2Adaptability or versatility
If game operation rights are transferred between users in real-time, then user interaction and engagement improve, but control and management complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The server implements a feedback mechanism where operation right transfer requests are sent from distribution terminals to viewing terminals, and responses are returned to confirm or reject the transfer. This feedback loop enables dynamic operation right management, allowing users to interact and transfer control in real-time while the server maintains oversight and coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes connection and authorization protocols in advance through the server before operation right transfers occur. Viewing terminals are pre-authorized and registered with the server, so when operation right transfer is requested, the server can quickly validate and execute the transfer without complex real-time negotiations, simplifying control management.
3Productivity
If peer-to-peer streaming connections are established between terminals, then network efficiency improves, but connection stability and reliability may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as a mediating authority that establishes and monitors peer-to-peer connections between distribution and viewing terminals. While the actual data stream flows directly between terminals for network efficiency, the server maintains connection state information, handles reconnection logic, and ensures connection stability, thus combining the benefits of direct peer-to-peer streaming with centralized reliability management.
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AI summary
An image of a game played by a user A is streaming distributed to information processing apparatuses of users B, C and D. On an outputting apparatus of the user A, candidates for a user who is to play the game in place of the user A are presented. To a user who has the operation right of the game, a controller mark 254 indicating that the user has the operation right of the game is applied. Consequently, the user A can recognize at a glance who has the operation right.