Grouped Terminal Quality Control for Consistent Online Gaming
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online game systems face challenges in ensuring that multiple terminal devices receive a communication service quality higher than or equal to a predetermined quality, leading to inconsistent gaming experiences.
Innovation Solution
A management apparatus and quality control apparatus that determine and adjust the quality of communication services for groups of terminal devices, ensuring that a second group within a first group receives the service at a quality higher than or equal to a predetermined quality by utilizing a receiver, determiner, and situation controller to manage and control the quality of service.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a communication service quality is made changeable for terminal devices, then the service can adapt to different conditions, but the quality consistency across multiple terminal devices deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing different quality levels for different terminal devices based on their individual conditions. The quality control apparatus determines appropriate quality levels for each terminal device within a group, enabling localized quality adjustment rather than uniform quality across all devices. This resolves the contradiction by making quality adaptable to local conditions while maintaining overall system reliability through coordinated control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamics by making the communication service quality changeable and adjustable based on real-time conditions. The quality control apparatus can dynamically modify quality parameters for terminal devices according to network conditions, device capabilities, and service requirements. This dynamic adjustment capability allows the system to adapt to changing conditions while maintaining quality consistency through centralized coordination.
2Reliability
If quality control is implemented for multiple terminal devices, then quality consistency improves, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a quality control apparatus as an intermediary between the communication service and terminal devices. This mediator centralized quality control functions, managing quality parameters for multiple terminal devices without requiring complex interactions between devices themselves. The intermediary approach simplifies the overall system architecture while ensuring quality consistency across all terminal devices through coordinated control.
3Measurement precision
If quality information is collected from each terminal device, then quality determination accuracy improves, but the information processing load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by having terminal devices transmit only essential quality information to the quality control apparatus, rather than exchanging comprehensive data sets. The quality control apparatus then performs the complex determination process centrally, reducing the information processing load on individual terminal devices while maintaining accurate quality determination through aggregated information from multiple sources.
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AI summary
A management apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive, for each of terminal devices belonging to a first group, a corresponding piece of quality information based on a quality available to the respective terminal device in a communication service; a determiner configured to determine, based on the corresponding piece of quality information for each terminal device, whether the first group includes a second group of two or more terminal devices, the second group satisfying a predetermined condition, the predetermined condition including a quality condition in which the communication service is available at a quality higher than or equal to a predetermined quality; and a situation controller configured to, based on a result of a determination made by the determiner being affirmative, cause a first situation in which the second group receives the communication service at a quality higher than or equal to the predetermined quality.