Messaging SDK Integrating Chat Context into Web Gaming
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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 leave one to engage in the other, and existing gaming applications offer limited and unfamiliar chat interfaces that detract from the user experience.
Innovation Solution
A software development kit (SDK) facilitates seamless communication between messaging and gaming applications by integrating messaging features into gaming platforms, allowing users to continue conversations and play with friends within the familiar messaging application interface, while ensuring secure data sharing and context-based functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users switch between messaging application and gaming application to communicate or play, then communication and gaming functions can be performed, but user experience deteriorates due to requiring context switching and leaving one application to use the other
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges messaging application functionality directly into the gaming application interface by integrating the messaging application's user interface elements (chat window, contact list, message input fields) within the gaming application window. This allows users to communicate with friends while playing games without switching applications, eliminating context switching overhead and improving ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming application is enhanced with multi-functionality by incorporating both gaming features and messaging features within a single application interface. The integrated system allows the gaming application to serve dual purposes: entertainment through gaming and communication through messaging, reducing the need to switch between separate applications and minimizing time loss.
2Adaptability or versatility
If gaming application provides its own chat interface, then communication within gaming context is enabled, but user experience deteriorates due to unfamiliar interface and limited functionality compared to messaging application
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses the messaging application's established interface design as an intermediary solution. Instead of creating a new chat interface from scratch within the gaming application, it embeds the familiar messaging application's interface elements directly into the gaming context. This allows users to leverage their existing knowledge of the messaging interface while maintaining gaming functionality, achieving adaptability without sacrificing ease of operation.
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 a platform that facilitates communication between a messaging application and a web-based gaming application. The web-based gaming application is launched, via the platform, from the messaging application. Context of the messaging application from which the web-based gaming application was launched is determined. The context of the messaging application is communicated, via the platform, to the web-based gaming application. A feature of the messaging application is integrated, via the platform, into the web-based gaming application based on the context from which the web-based gaming application was launched.