Overlay Messaging for Networked Gaming Auto-Seat
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Solution Overview
Problem
Networked gaming systems face challenges in user accessibility due to numerous game options and full tables, leading to user frustration and revenue loss, as existing solutions like QuickSeat do not adequately address the complexity of game selection and seating in multi-player games beyond Hold'em poker.
Innovation Solution
A networked gaming system with an overlay messaging application that allows users to configure preferences for immediate login and seating at preferred games, including auto-seat and buy-in features, reducing the complexity of game selection and seating across various game types and tables.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a networked gaming system offers a large number of games and variations to users, then the system provides greater variety and choice, but the user selection process becomes more cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring user preferences, default game selections, and automatic table seating arrangements before the user needs to play. The system remembers previous selections and automatically applies them, eliminating the need for users to manually search through numerous games and variations each time they log in.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides self-service functionality by automatically selecting games and tables based on stored user preferences without requiring manual intervention. The system serves itself by maintaining user profiles, remembering game selections, and autonomously arranging seating, thereby reducing the operational burden on users.
2Measurement precision
If the system provides detailed game search criteria and multiple search fields, then the user can find specific games more precisely, but the search process becomes more complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically performs precise game searching based on pre-stored user preferences without requiring users to manually configure search criteria. The system serves itself by maintaining detailed user profiles and automatically querying available games according to those profiles, achieving precise search results without increasing user complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary configuration of search criteria by pre-saving user preferences before the actual search occurs. This preliminary action ensures that when the user needs to search for games, the system already has the necessary filtering parameters ready, achieving precise results without requiring complex manual search configuration.
3Reliability
If the system implements a waiting list for full tables, then users can be notified when seats become available, but the waiting list creates deterrent effects and reduces user satisfaction
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary seating arrangements by pre-identifying available tables and seats before users need to play. The system maintains a queue of available tables and automatically assigns them to users based on preferences, eliminating the need for users to wait on lists and improving overall user satisfaction while maintaining reliable availability notification.
4Device complexity
If the system requires users to manually search and select games, then the system maintains simple architecture, but the user experience becomes frustrating and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary processing by pre-configuring user preferences, maintaining sorted lists of available games and tables, and preparing automatic selection logic before user interaction. This preliminary action enables rapid user access without requiring complex real-time processing, achieving both architectural simplicity and high productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service automation where the system automatically selects and presents games based on stored user preferences without requiring manual user intervention in the selection process. This maintains relatively simple architecture while dramatically improving user access speed and experience.
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AI summary
A networked gaining system wherein a game client application connects a player to at least one game server having at least one game table. The game server provides game operations and displays for transmission to the game client application and a display including at least one screen display designating a lobby from which a player can request to be seated at one or more of a plurality of virtual game positions in one of a plurality of multi-player games. The at least one lobby screen display is accessible without the user having to login to the game client application. Further, a player may configure the networked gaming system so that when the user logs-in, the player is immediately taken to a game and “bought-in”, if necessary. An embodiment of the present invention is disclosed as an overlay messaging program incorporating the above features.