Gaming Social Network Mediator for Cross-Platform User Connections
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network-connected games fail to seamlessly integrate social interactions across multiple social networks, leading to reduced user engagement and enjoyment, as they lack portability between social networks and gaming interfaces.
Innovation Solution
The system automatically assigns game play neighbors based on a player's out-of-game social networks, using social graphs from platforms like Yahoo!, Facebook, and Google+, to enhance in-game connections and interactions, thereby increasing the player's social network size and suggesting game-related activities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the system integrates social interactions across multiple social networks, then user engagement and enjoyment are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a gaming social network that acts as an intermediary layer between multiple out-of-game social networks (Facebook, Google+, Yahoo!) and the game interface. This mediator consolidates connections from various platforms into a unified gaming social graph, allowing users to interact across networks without requiring the game system to directly integrate each individual social network, thus managing complexity while maintaining versatility
2Measurement precision
If the system manually configures social connections, then connection accuracy is improved, but user time and effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically importing and processing social connections from multiple out-of-game social networks before the user needs to play games. The gaming social network pre-configures the social graph by fetching friend lists, identifying mutual connections, and establishing initial neighbor relationships, so that when users engage in gameplay, their social connections are already accurately configured without requiring manual setup
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by allowing users to automatically connect their out-of-game social network accounts to the gaming social network. Once authorized, the system autonomously retrieves and processes social connection data, automatically configuring the user's gaming social graph without requiring ongoing manual user intervention for connection management
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AI summary
Techniques for automatically establishing connections between users within a gaming social network, designed for connecting users having common gaming interests, social connections, or characteristics. Embodiments include methods for automatically establishing connections from members of an out-of-game social network, the gaming social network, and gaming activity participants; evaluating user profile information and user characteristics in a gaming social network and gaming activity in a game networking system to determine an appropriate set of connections for a selected user. Embodiments include systems configured to automatically establish and maintain connections between players in a gaming social network based on gaming activity in a gaming networking system and social relationship information retrieved from one or more social networks where the players have a social relationship.