Game Service Server Ticket-Based Tournament Access and Recommendation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current game service platforms face challenges in managing user participation in tournaments and recommending games based on individual preferences, as they lack efficient user management and personalized game suggestions, especially in online environments.

Innovation Solution

A service providing server that supports tournament participation using tickets and recommends customized games by storing ticket information, member preferences, and play history, allowing for personalized game recommendations and secure tournament access based on ticket availability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If user management technology is introduced to allow only qualified users to participate in tournaments, then service quality is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice qualityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments users into different categories (certified members with tickets vs. regular users) and segments tournament access into ticket-based entry vs. open access. This segmentation allows qualified control over tournament participation while maintaining simpler access for other services, resolving the contradiction between service quality and system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-certifying members and pre-issuing tickets before tournament participation. This preliminary qualification process ensures only eligible users can access tournaments, improving service quality while the certification and ticketing infrastructure is established in advance, reducing the complexity of real-time access control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If game recommendation function is introduced to recommend appropriate games to each user, then user convenience is improved, but information processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidinformation processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by analyzing user play history and preferred genres, then using this feedback to generate personalized game recommendations. The system continuously learns from user behavior patterns and adjusts recommendations accordingly, improving user convenience while the feedback processing is handled automatically by the server, minimizing the perceived complexity for users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The game recommendation system operates autonomously by automatically analyzing user profiles, play histories, and genre preferences to generate recommendations without requiring manual user input. The system serves itself by processing its own data to improve recommendations, enhancing user convenience while the automated nature reduces the complexity burden on users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If ticket-based tournament access is implemented, then tournament security is improved, but operational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetournament securityVSAvoidoperational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces tickets as an intermediary element between certified members and tournament access. Instead of directly verifying member qualifications at tournament entry, the ticket serves as a mediating credential that simplifies the access control process. The ticket-based intermediary system enhances tournament security while reducing the operational complexity of real-time verification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20240312302A1Service providing server for providing the game service that supports participation in a tournament for a game using a ticket and that recommends a game to a user, and the operating method thereof
Publication Date: 2024.09.19 SUPERTREE CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed are a service providing server for providing a game service that supports participation in a tournament for a game using a ticket, and recommends a customized game to a user, and the operating method thereof to support members to enjoy a game while competing with other members in a tournament scheme in an online environment, and at the same time, support a member who subscribes in the game service to be recommended with an optimal game according to a preferred genre thereof.