Unified Messaging and Gaming Interface for Seamless Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face a disconnect between their online interactions in messaging applications and multiplayer video games, requiring them to switch between interfaces to communicate with friends and play games, which is inefficient and complex, especially for novice users.
Innovation Solution
An improved GUI that allows users to seamlessly access and play games with friends directly from a messaging application, integrating features like avatars, voice communication, and game launching within the conversation interface, using an SDK to bridge messaging and gaming systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users switch between messaging application and gaming application to communicate and play games, then communication and gaming functions are available, but user interaction efficiency deteriorates and operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the messaging application interface and gaming application interface into a single unified interface. The messaging application presents both conversation elements (chat messages, contacts) and gaming elements (game icons, game launching capabilities) simultaneously within the same user interface space, eliminating the need to switch between separate applications and thereby improving ease of operation while reducing interface complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The messaging application is enhanced to perform multiple functions: it serves as both a communication platform for text/voice messaging and as a gaming platform for launching and playing games with friends. This multi-functionality allows users to access both messaging and gaming features from a single application, improving interaction efficiency without requiring separate dedicated applications for each function
2Productivity
If users leave conversation interface to access gaming application, then gaming functionality is available, but loss of time occurs due to interface switching
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming application icons and launching capabilities are pre-loaded and presented within the messaging application interface itself. When users want to play a game, the game icons are already visible and accessible in the conversation interface, eliminating the need to first exit the messaging app and then search for or launch the gaming application. This preliminary positioning of gaming elements within the messaging interface significantly reduces the time required to access and launch games
3Adaptability or versatility
If messaging application integrates gaming features, then seamless transition is achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary component or layer within the messaging application that handles gaming-related operations. This intermediary layer manages the presentation of game icons, the launching of gaming applications, and the coordination between messaging and gaming functions, thereby enabling seamless integration and adaptability while encapsulating the complexity within a dedicated intermediary structure rather than dispersing it throughout the entire system
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for providing games in a chat interface. A conversation interface is presented in a messaging application to enable a plurality of participants in a conversation to exchange messages with each other. A request from a first participant of the plurality of participants is received to launch a gaming application. In response to receiving the request from the first participant, a first message is transmitted to a second participant of the plurality of participants that indicates the first participant has launched the gaming application. In response to receiving the first message, an option is presented to the second participant in the conversation interface, the option associated with the gaming application to enable the second participant to join the first participant in the gaming application.