Lottery Game Recommendation Interface Design

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current lottery games fail to effectively enhance user interest across multiple games, as users often experience monotony and lack of engagement due to limited exposure to diverse game options.

Innovation Solution

A computer-readable storage medium with an information processing program that selects and recommends different lottery games based on user interactions, displaying relevant and diverse game options through tag-based recommendations, ensuring users are introduced to various game concepts and periods, thereby maintaining interest.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a single lottery game is displayed and executed, then the game rules and operations are simple and clear, but user interest diminishes due to monotony and lack of diversity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesimplicity of game operationVSAvoiddiversity of game options
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple lottery games into a single display interface, showing both the currently executed game and recommended alternative games simultaneously. This merging approach allows users to access diverse game options without leaving the current game context, thereby maintaining operational simplicity while increasing game diversity and user interest.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The display device serves multiple functions: it displays the currently executed lottery game results, shows recommended alternative lottery games, and provides navigation to switch between games. This multi-functionality enables a single interface to handle both simple game execution and diverse game exploration, resolving the contradiction between simplicity and versatility.

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

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple lottery games are displayed simultaneously, then user interest is enhanced through diversity, but the interface complexity and information overload increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvediversity of game optionsVSAvoidcomplexity of display interface
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by differentiating the display presentation between the currently executed lottery game and the recommended alternative games. The current game is displayed with prominent visual characteristics indicating active status, while recommended games are displayed with distinct visual markers indicating their recommendation status. This localized differentiation allows multiple games to coexist on the interface without creating confusion, maintaining clarity while providing diversity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a recommendation image as an intermediary element that mediates between the current game and alternative games. This intermediary visually represents the transition option, guiding users smoothly between games without exposing them to the full complexity of multiple game interfaces simultaneously. The recommendation image acts as a controlled gateway to game diversity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Productivity

If recommended lottery games are provided based on predetermined conditions, then user engagement increases through personalized recommendations, but the system complexity for managing game associations increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagement levelVSAvoidcomplexity of recommendation system
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-establishing association relationships between lottery games before runtime. Games are pre-tagged with categories, themes, or metadata that define their relationships with other games. When a user executes a lottery game, the system quickly retrieves pre-computed recommendations based on these predetermined associations, avoiding complex real-time analysis and reducing system complexity while maintaining personalized recommendation capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11810418B2Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having information processing program stored therein, information processing system, information processing method, and information processing apparatus
Publication Date: 2023.11.07 NINTENDO CO LTD
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AI summary

A lottery game is selected out of a plurality of lottery games in each of which a plurality of contents are set as a lottery target. A content is specified through a lottery out of the plurality of contents set as the lottery target in the selected lottery game. A lottery game is specified as a recommended lottery game on the basis of a predetermined condition out of lottery games that are different from the selected lottery game among the plurality of lottery games. In a lottery result display scene, a first image regarding the specified content and a second image regarding the specified recommended lottery game are displayed, and when a user operation on the second image has been performed, the lottery result display scene is caused to transition to a scene for the recommended lottery game regarding the second image.