Mobile Game Account Interworking via Terminal ID Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for interworking game accounts between mobile terminals and personal computers result in inconvenient record management and authentication issues, particularly when using a game integration ID, leading to loss of records and repeated authentication processes.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that create a one-to-one mapping between a mobile ID and a game integration ID, allowing for seamless record storage and authentication across multiple games on different terminals without the need for separate login procedures, utilizing a database to manage terminal identification information and create unique mobile IDs for each terminal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a game integration ID is used to manage multiple games, then user convenience is improved through single login, but record loss occurs when logging out from one game affects other games
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the account management system into two independent layers: game integration ID for authentication and terminal ID for record management. Each game session is associated with a specific terminal ID, creating isolated record containers that prevent cross-contamination. When logging out from one game, only the records associated with that specific terminal ID are affected, while other terminal IDs and their records remain intact.
2Reliability
If separate login management is used for mobile terminal and PC, then record isolation is maintained, but user convenience deteriorates due to repeated authentication
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the authentication function (game integration ID) with the record management function (terminal ID) into a unified system. The terminal ID is automatically generated from device characteristics and linked to the game integration ID, creating a seamless connection between authentication and record persistence. This combination allows automatic login on the same terminal without requiring users to manually re-authenticate, while maintaining record isolation through terminal-specific storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The terminal ID serves as an intermediary between the game integration ID and the game records. It acts as a bridge that connects authentication identity with record storage, enabling automatic login while preventing record mixing across different terminals. The terminal ID translates the abstract game integration ID into concrete terminal-specific record access.
3Adaptability or versatility
If game records are stored in integration ID, then cross-game accessibility is improved, but record interworking between different terminals deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making record storage terminal-specific rather than globally uniform. Each terminal receives a unique terminal ID that creates a localized record storage space, ensuring records are preserved and accessible on that specific terminal. This localized approach maintains cross-game accessibility within each terminal while preventing unwanted record sharing between different terminals, thus simplifying terminal compatibility.
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AI summary
An apparatus for interworking a mobile terminal account and a gaming account by interworking game record information in the mobile terminal and a game integration account used in multiple games. The method includes: storing information, on a storage device, on a game integration ID used to manage games for the gaming account; receiving, from a mobile terminal, unique terminal identification information of the mobile terminal; confirming whether a mobile ID is mapped to the terminal identification information; creating a mobile ID mapped to the terminal identification information when the confirming determines that a mobile ID is not mapped to the terminal identification information; and mapping, one-to-one, the created mobile ID and the game integration ID.