Gaming System Cross-Platform Data Storage via Portable Terminal
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing gaming systems face challenges in compatibility across different platforms, leading to increased development costs and reduced sales due to the need for separate game software and memory cards for each platform, limiting player flexibility and game manufacturer investment.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system that utilizes a portable terminal, such as a mobile phone, to transmit and store game result information, allowing seamless compatibility across different gaming machines by using a server to store and convert game data, eliminating the need for platform-specific memory cards and enabling game continuation or resumption across different platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If game software is developed for multiple gaming machine platforms, then player purchasing interest and sales are improved, but development cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal memory card system that can be used across multiple gaming machine platforms. The memory card stores game result information in a standardized format that can be recognized by different gaming machines, allowing players to carry their game progress universally. This eliminates the need for separate memory cards for each platform, reducing development costs while maintaining broad compatibility and sales potential.
2Reliability
If platform-specific memory cards are used for each gaming machine, then game data compatibility within the same platform is improved, but compatibility across different platforms deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a standardized memory card as an intermediary between different gaming machine platforms. The memory card uses a universal data format that acts as a mediator, allowing game result information to be transferred between different types of gaming machines without requiring platform-specific adaptations. This intermediary solution maintains data integrity while enabling cross-platform compatibility.
3Reliability
If game result information is stored in platform-specific memory, then data security and integrity are improved, but player flexibility and convenience deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts game result information from the internal memory of gaming machines and stores it in removable memory cards that players can physically take with them. This extraction allows players to maintain their game progress independently of any specific machine, enhancing flexibility and convenience while the standardized format ensures data integrity across different platforms.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a gaming system which can eliminate obstacles and drawbacks which may arise at the time of purchasing or using plural kinds of gaming machines which have different platforms thus reducing a risk and a development cost at the time of developing game software. The gaming machine includes a first unit for transmitting game result information on a game result when a game is paused or finished to the portable terminal, and the server includes a second unit for receiving the game result information transmitted from the portable terminal and identification information which the portable terminal possesses, and a third unit which allows a storage unit provided to the server to store the game result information which the server receives from the portable terminal corresponding to the identification information of the portable terminal.