Information Processing System Sharing Unit for Application Loading

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information-processing systems lack an efficient method to display and share user-generated content, such as messages and images, during the loading of application programs, limiting user engagement and community interaction.

Innovation Solution

An information-processing system with an execution unit that executes application programs and a sharing unit to store and provide data, including user-generated content, via a network, allowing for the display of posted information during program loading and enabling community interaction through a bulletin board function and community formation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If user-generated content is displayed during application loading, then user engagement and community interaction are enhanced, but system complexity and data management requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a sharing unit as an intermediary component that includes a storage unit for storing user-generated content and a providing unit for providing this content to terminals. This mediator handles the complexity of data management, community formation, and content provision, allowing the execution unit to focus on application execution while still enabling enhanced user engagement through displayed user-generated content during loading processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If a sharing unit with storage and providing functions is added, then community interaction is enabled, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunity interactionVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The sharing unit is designed as a multi-functional component that simultaneously performs storage of user-generated content, provision of this content to multiple terminals, and support for community formation. This universal component handles diverse functions (storage, data provision, community management) through a unified structure, enabling community interaction without proportionally increasing overall device complexity.

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

Data Source

PatentUS9661062B2Information-processing system, information-processing device, storage medium, and information-processing method
Publication Date: 2017.05.23 NINTENDO CO LTD
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AI summary

An exemplary information-processing device includes: an execution unit configured to execute a process relating to an application program selected from among a plurality of application programs; and a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display information indicated by at least one item of data obtained via a network from the storage unit that stores a plurality of items of data during loading of the application program or data used in the application program.