Multi-Portal Gaming Server with Clearing Accounts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multiplayer poker game systems face challenges in managing player participation and wagering, leading to frustration and high player attrition due to limited available positions and time-consuming waiting for sufficient players to join a game, especially in online environments.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a gaming server, multiple portals, and a clearing account facility that allows dynamic management of player participation, spawning new game instances, and merging/collapsing existing ones to accommodate player demand, along with a clearing account system for inter-entity transaction settlement and player credit management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If a traditional multiplayer poker system is used with limited game instances, then the system structure remains simple, but player waiting time increases and player attrition increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the player pool by maintaining separate clearing accounts for each portal, allowing independent management of player groups while enabling cross-portal game formation. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by reducing waiting time through parallel game instance creation without overwhelming system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds a portal dimension to the traditional player-game structure. Instead of single-portal players queuing for single-portal games, players from multiple portals can be pooled together across the communication network, creating games in a multi-dimensional player space that reduces waiting time without linearly increasing complexity.
2Productivity
If multiple portals are integrated into a single gaming system, then player pool increases and waiting time decreases, but transaction management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The clearing account facility acts as an intermediary layer between multiple portals and the gaming server. Each portal has its own clearing account that mediates transactions, simplifying the management of inter-portal transactions while enabling fast game formation across the expanded player pool.
Solution Approach 2:
The clearing account facility provides universal transaction management that serves multiple portals simultaneously. A single clearing account system handles wagering, credit dispensing, and settlement across all connected portals, increasing game formation speed without proportionally increasing transaction management complexity.
3Duration of action of moving object
If players are drawn from multiple portals, then player availability increases and game sessions last longer, but account clearing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The clearing account system is segmented by portal, with each portal having its own dedicated clearing account. This segmentation allows independent tracking of transactions for each portal while enabling cross-portal game play, extending game session duration through larger player pools without overwhelming clearing complexity.
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AI summary
A system for playing a multiplayer zero-sum game includes a gaming server operable under program control to regulate the progress of at least one instance of the multiplayer zero-sum game by a predetermined plurality of players, a user access facility corresponding to each player, a plurality of portals associated with a plurality of competing game provider entities, and a clearing account facility having a separate clearing account for each game provider entity. Each user access facility is operable by a player to access the gaming server for participation in the at least one instance of the multiplayer zero-sum game through a selectable one of the plurality of portals, wherein each portal can be logically connected to a plurality of user access facilities simultaneously.