Online Game Verification System Automating Winner Determination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online wagering systems for video games require manual cooperation from players to determine the winner, leading to potential disputes and inefficiencies in awarding bets or points.
Innovation Solution
A verification system that automatically matches players, tracks game results, and determines winners by communicating with game servers, using email or published results to credit winning players without manual intervention, while also allowing for dispute resolution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If players manually enter the winner identification into the remote server, then the system can credit the winner's account and debit the loser's account, but the process requires player cooperation and is time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The game server automatically sends game result information to the verification system without requiring player intervention. The verification system autonomously processes the results, determines winners, and updates player accounts, eliminating the need for manual winner entry by players.
Solution Approach 2:
The verification system acts as an intermediary between the game server and the wagering system. It receives game result data from the game server via automated communication (email or website publication), processes this information, and triggers the appropriate crediting and debiting actions, thereby automating the entire winner determination workflow.
2Productivity
If the verification system automatically communicates with the game server to obtain game outcome information, then the winner determination is automated and efficient, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The verification system serves as an intermediary layer that simplifies the overall architecture. Instead of the wagering system directly integrating with multiple game servers using different communication methods, the verification system handles all communication variations, parsing game result data from emails or websites and converting it into a standardized format for the wagering system.
Solution Approach 2:
The verification system is designed to handle multiple game servers and various communication formats through a single unified interface. It can process game results from different sources (email communications or published website results) using the same core verification logic, making the system versatile and reducing overall complexity.
3Reliability
If players can dispute game results, then fair play is maintained and cheaters are protected, but the automated verification process is delayed
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically processes and verifies game results immediately after game completion, crediting winners and debiting losers without waiting for potential disputes. This preliminary automated processing ensures timely payout while maintaining a separate dispute resolution channel that can be activated if needed, rather than blocking the entire process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains an automated verification process that operates continuously, with a separate feedback mechanism for disputes. When disputes are filed, the system can pause verification for specific cases while continuing to process other games normally, allowing fair play maintenance without significantly delaying the overall automated verification workflow.
Data Source
AI summary
An automatic verification system for automatically verifying a winner of an on-line game is disclosed. The verification system (a server/memory connected to the Internet) contains information about subscriber players and contains accounts that are used for betting on outcomes of skill games. The subscribers access the system via the Internet to set up an on-line game with other subscribers. The players then compete against each other normally via the game (e.g., Halo™ network server. The verification system then automatically receives the final game information from the server or console(s) via an e-mail, or by accessing published results of the game, or by accessing the players' published career summaries. Based on that automatically generated data, the verification system automatically determines the winner and awards the winner money or points.