Information Processing System for Selective Game Stage Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in selectively accessing and playing specific stages or chapters within game programs, particularly in RPG games, where they want to engage with particular content like battles with last enemy characters without navigating through the entire game.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that manages execution status information and content information for multiple applications, allowing users to group and display content selectively, enabling easy access and execution of desired game stages or chapters based on group identification and priority information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users want to select and play specific stages or chapters within game programs, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases due to the need to manage and organize execution status information for multiple applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments execution status information into discrete, manageable units that can be individually stored and retrieved. Each execution status represents a specific state of a game application, allowing users to select and resume from particular stages without managing the entire game sequence. This segmentation enables easy access to specific game chapters while the system handles the complexity of organizing multiple execution states.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary information processing system that acts as a mediator between the user and the game applications. This system automatically manages the grouping, storage, and organization of execution status information, shielding users from the underlying complexity. Users simply interact with the intermediary to select desired game stages, while the intermediary handles the complex tasks of managing execution states across multiple applications.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system manages execution status information for multiple applications, then adaptability is improved, but loss of information increases due to the complexity of organizing and retrieving execution statuses
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges execution status information from multiple different game applications into unified groups. By combining execution states across applications and organizing them into coherent groups, the system maintains comprehensive adaptability while reducing information loss through centralized management. The grouping structure ensures that execution status information is preserved and can be reliably retrieved regardless of which application generated it.
3Ease of operation
If users can access detailed content information for each execution status, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of time increases due to the time required to process and display menu information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and organizing execution status information into structured groups with associated content information. This preparation work is done in advance, so when users need to access specific game stages, the information is already organized and ready for quick display. The menu information generation leverages this pre-organized data structure to provide easy access without requiring time-consuming processing at the moment of user interaction.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and apparatus operate to: execute one application; store group information, the group information being associated with a plurality of pieces of execution status information each of which represents one of a plurality of execution statuses of the execution, a plurality of pieces of content information each of which represents one of the contents of the plurality of pieces of execution status information, and group identification information identifying groups to which the plurality of pieces of execution status information and the plurality of pieces of content information belong; and generate, based on the group information, menu information which displays the content information included in at least one of the groups. The at least one application is executed using the execution status information associated with at least one piece of the content information included in the menu information.