Gaming Platform Segmentation for Secure Wagering

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current online gaming lacks a secure environment for competing for tangible prizes and fails to incentivize players to become dedicated patrons, resulting in a limited gaming experience.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising a server and platform that provides enhanced services such as event management, statistics generation, user profiling, wagering, and user matching, enabling secure and engaging online gaming experiences by monitoring game events, generating statistics, and facilitating wagers in real-time.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If online gaming is provided without enhanced services, then the gaming application can be executed simply, but the gaming experience remains limited and players cannot compete for tangible prizes securely

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecure environment for competingVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system is divided into two independent components: a server that executes the gaming application and a platform that provides enhanced services. This segmentation allows the gaming application to run simply on the server while the platform handles complex functions like wagering, statistics generation, and user profiling separately, thus providing secure enhanced services without increasing the core gaming system's complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The platform acts as an intermediary between players and the gaming application. It mediates secure wagering transactions, verifies game events, and manages prize distributions. This intermediary role enables secure competition for tangible prizes without requiring the gaming application itself to become complex, as the platform handles all security and verification functions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If enhanced services are provided during gaming application execution, then the gaming experience is enriched, but additional system components and processing are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegaming experience enhancementVSAvoidsystem architecture
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The platform is designed as a universal system that can provide multiple enhanced services including wagering, statistics generation, user profiling, and game advice. This multi-functional platform enriches the gaming experience across different game types and scenarios without requiring separate systems for each enhancement, thus improving adaptability while managing complexity through consolidation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The platform establishes enhanced services sessions that correspond in time with gaming application execution. By setting up wagering parameters, user profiles, and tracking mechanisms before and during game execution, the system enriches the gaming experience without requiring complex real-time processing during critical gameplay moments, as preliminary actions are already in place.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If real-time event monitoring and statistics generation are implemented, then player engagement increases, but processing requirements and system resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveplayer engagementVSAvoidprocessing resources
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The platform monitors a plurality of game events and generates statistics based on selected parameters rather than processing every possible data point. By focusing on key events and metrics that most impact player engagement, the system maintains high player involvement while optimizing processing resources by not unnecessarily analyzing every minor game detail.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically monitors game events, generates statistics, and updates user profiles without requiring manual intervention. This self-service approach to data collection and analysis maintains high player engagement through real-time feedback while minimizing the need for additional human processing resources, as the automated system handles all analytics functions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS8672751B2System and method for providing enhanced services to a user of a gaming application
Publication Date: 2014.03.18 INTERACTIVE GAMES LTD
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AI summary

A system for providing enhanced services to users of a gaming application comprises a server and a platform remotely coupled to the server. The server executes a gaming application. The platform receives a request for enhanced services, and establishes an enhanced services session with a user of the gaming application in response to the request for enhanced services. The enhanced services session corresponds in time at least in part with the execution of the gaming application. The platform further provides enhanced services to the user of the gaming application during the enhanced services session.