Gaming Hub Control for Multi-Room Controller Session Migration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming systems struggle to efficiently manage and monitor multiple gaming controllers across different environments within a user's home, such as living rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms, due to varying AV systems and network availability, making it difficult to maintain seamless gameplay and controller status monitoring.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing a gaming hub and a knowledge graph to determine the location of gaming controllers within a user's home, enabling seamless migration of gameplay sessions across devices and environments, while monitoring and managing multiple controllers through a mobile device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single mobile device monitors multiple gaming controllers across different environments, then controller status monitoring capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a gaming hub as an intermediary device that centralizes controller monitoring and management functions. The hub receives status information from multiple controllers and relays it to mobile devices, eliminating the need for each mobile device to directly manage multiple controllers. This mediator approach resolves the technical contradiction by improving monitoring capability through centralized management while reducing system complexity by consolidating control logic in the hub.
2Ease of operation
If gameplay sessions migrate across multiple environments with different AV systems, then user mobility and gameplay continuity are improved, but network and system coordination complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming hub serves as a mediator that manages gameplay session migration across different environments. It maintains session state information and coordinates with various AV systems, allowing seamless transitions while abstracting the complexity of multi-environment coordination from the mobile devices and gaming applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming hub is designed as a universal platform that can interface with multiple types of AV systems and controllers across different environments. It provides standardized protocols and adaptive configuration capabilities, enabling it to handle diverse system configurations without requiring separate specialized systems for each environment, thus improving gameplay continuity while managing coordination complexity.
3Loss of information
If the system monitors detailed status information for multiple controllers, then information completeness is improved, but data processing and communication overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and consolidates controller status information monitoring at the gaming hub level, rather than requiring continuous direct communication between each controller and mobile devices. The hub collects, processes, and filters status information centrally, then transmits only relevant updates to mobile devices. This extraction approach maintains complete status information while significantly reducing communication overhead and energy consumption.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods described herein may provide a system that enables the monitoring and display of status information for a gaming controller, which may include battery status, location information, the availability of a gaming controller, or a user profile associated with the controller. The system may employ methods to associate a gaming controller with an information handling system (e.g., a mobile device) and with a gaming hub. The system may accommodate multiple gaming controllers and enable monitoring of status information for each of the gaming controllers.