Game Stream Recommendations Using Player Profile Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Players and viewers often struggle to find suitable game streams to broadcast or view, especially when they do not know anyone playing the game they are interested in.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for generating stream recommendations based on player profiles, considering game preferences and skill levels, to connect broadcasters with potential viewers, allowing for automatic broadcasting and interactive features like two-way sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If players broadcast their games to viewers, then viewer engagement and community building are improved, but it becomes difficult for players to find viewers and for viewers to find games to watch
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a recommendation system as an intermediary between players and viewers. This system automatically matches players with potential viewers by analyzing player profiles, game preferences, and viewer interests, eliminating the need for manual searching and facilitating easy discovery of suitable streams.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where viewer preferences and viewing patterns are analyzed to generate personalized stream recommendations. This feedback loop continuously improves the matching accuracy, making it easier for viewers to discover relevant streams and for players to find engaged audiences.
2Productivity
If the system provides personalized stream recommendations based on player profiles, then stream discovery is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and storing player profile information, game metadata, and viewer preferences before actual stream matching occurs. This pre-preparation enables efficient real-time recommendations without requiring complex calculations during the streaming process.
Solution Approach 2:
The recommendation system is segmented into modular components that handle different aspects of matching independently - player profile analysis, game preference matching, viewer interest analysis, and recommendation generation. This segmentation reduces overall system complexity while maintaining high matching efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus includes communication circuitry and processing circuitry. The communication circuitry is configured to receive, from a requesting device, a stream-recommendation request associated with a player profile, and the processing circuitry responsive to the stream-recommendation request to select, from a list of available game streams, one or more available game streams. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a stream recommendation indicating the selected one or more available game streams. The processing circuitry is configured to select the one or more available game streams in dependence on the player profile.