Multiplayer Goal Collaboration Beyond Social Graph Limits
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gaming systems fail to facilitate collaboration between multiple players to achieve a goal in an online game when the players are not obtained from a social graph of one of the players, leading to inefficiencies and limitations in providing awards.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that enables collaboration between multiple players by maintaining multiplayer awards associated with a predetermined set of tasks, allowing players to form affiliations and relationships, and awarding players based on their contributions, regardless of their social connections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional systems use social graphs to facilitate player collaboration, then player relationships are established through existing social connections, but the system fails to enable collaboration between players without pre-existing social ties
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the dependency on social graphs from the collaboration mechanism. Instead of requiring players to have pre-existing social connections, the system creates ad-hoc collaborations through game-specific group formations and task assignments, allowing players to work together without prior social ties.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a universal collaboration framework that works regardless of players' social relationships. The game engine provides standardized group creation, task assignment, and reward distribution mechanisms that function equally for all players whether they know each other or not, making the collaboration system universally applicable.
2Quantity of substance
If awards are provided to single players, then individual player motivation is maintained, but the total award pool and collaboration incentives are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual award pools into a larger collaborative award pool. When players form groups to complete objectives, their individual contributions accumulate toward shared rewards, effectively combining resources and incentives to create more substantial award pools that benefit all participants.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the award distribution process into individual contribution tracking and collective reward allocation. Each player's contributions are individually measured and recorded, then aggregated to determine group eligibility and reward distribution, simplifying the management of large award pools through systematic segmentation of tracking and allocation functions.
3Productivity
If goals require input from multiple players, then collaboration is facilitated, but the system lacks mechanisms to distribute awards fairly among diverse groups of players
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements comprehensive feedback mechanisms that continuously track and record each player's contributions to group objectives. The system monitors individual actions, measures their impact on goal completion, and provides real-time feedback to both participants and observers, ensuring accurate attribution of contributions for fair reward distribution.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary award management layer between player contributions and final rewards. This intermediary component objectively evaluates tracked contributions, applies predetermined distribution rules, and allocates rewards accordingly, removing bias and ensuring fair distribution among diverse player groups without requiring manual intervention.
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AI summary
The disclosure relates to facilitating collaboration between multiple players in an online game to achieve a goal in the game. Achievement of the goal may result in provision of an award related to the goal to one or more of the multiple players and/or to one or more affiliations associated with the multiple player. The goal may comprise a predetermined set of tasks required to be completed by more than one player, or may just comprise a predetermined set of tasks that may be completed by one or more players. Responsive to achieving the goal, the award may be provided to one or more recipients. The recipients may comprise, for example, players that initiated the completion of the goal, one or more players who provided the most input to the goal, one or more affiliations associated with respective one or more players involved in achieving the goal, and/or other entities.