Location-Tracked Gaming Rewards for Task Completion Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Parents and supervisors face challenges in managing children's game content, services, and experiences in age and maturity-appropriate ways, as existing systems lack effective incentives and location-based task management for gaming applications across multiple environments.
Innovation Solution
A rewards program using physical location trackers and environmental sensors to incentivize task completion, with a hub device managing gaming sessions across different environments in a home, supporting multiple users and AV systems, and granting rewards based on task completion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If physical location tracking and environmental sensors are used to monitor task completion, then task management precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a hub device as an intermediary that centralizes the processing of location tracking and environmental sensor data. This mediator coordinates between multiple sensors, controllers, and the reward system, reducing the complexity burden on individual components while maintaining high measurement precision for task completion detection.
Solution Approach 2:
The hub device serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a location tracker, environmental sensor coordinator, task manager, and reward distribution system. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise be separate complex systems into a single unified platform, improving measurement precision while managing overall system complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple users and environments are supported simultaneously, then system versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the gaming system into separate functional modules: user profile management, environment configuration, task assignment, location tracking, and reward distribution. Each module handles specific aspects of multi-user multi-environment support independently, allowing the system to be versatile while keeping individual component complexity manageable through clear separation of concerns.
3Ease of operation
If location-based task management is implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but measurement precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors user location through physical location trackers and compares it against predefined task locations, providing real-time feedback on task completion status. This feedback mechanism simplifies operation for users and supervisors while managing measurement precision requirements through continuous verification and adjustment based on location data.
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AI summary
Systems and methods described herein may provide a system that enables game play or other application sessions to consumption devices of a user's choice as a reward upon completion of tasks assigned to the user. A method may include monitoring, by an information handing system, a task assigned to be completed by a user; determining, by the information handling system, completion of the task by the user based, at least in part, on a physical location tracking of the user, wherein the physical location tracking of the user comprises: monitoring, by the information handling system, a controller; and comparing, by the information handling system, monitored controller movements to a known map stored on the information handling system; and granting, by the information handling system, a reward to the user. Other aspects are also disclosed.