Point Calculation for User Operation Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information processing devices lack mechanisms to incentivize frequent user interaction and engagement with operation devices, such as controllers, by not providing adequate rewards or feedback for user operations.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that includes an operation device with a detection section to track user interactions and an information processing device that calculates points based on the type, frequency, and duration of operations, allowing users to redeem these points for rewards such as character generation or game execution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a reward system is implemented to incentivize user interaction, then user engagement and frequency of device usage increase, but system complexity increases due to point calculation and redemption mechanisms

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefrequency of device usageVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically calculates points based on detected operations and autonomously manages the reward redemption process without requiring manual intervention, allowing the system to serve itself in maintaining user engagement while minimizing operational complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides immediate feedback to users by calculating and displaying points earned from operations, and by enabling point redemption for rewards, creating a closed-loop feedback mechanism that reinforces continued device usage while automating the reward management process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If detailed operation tracking is implemented to calculate points accurately, then point calculation precision improves, but data processing requirements and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepoint calculation precisionVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The point calculation system is segmented into distinct components: operation detection by the operation device, point calculation based on operation type/frequency/duration, and reward redemption processing, allowing each segment to handle specific tasks efficiently and reducing overall system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-establishes point calculation rules and reward structures before user interaction begins, so that during operation detection and point calculation, the system only needs to apply predefined criteria rather than making complex real-time decisions, thereby improving calculation precision while limiting data processing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20240299846A1Information processing device, system, information processing method, and information processing program
Publication Date: 2024.09.12 SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
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AI summary

Disclosed herein is an information processing device including at least one memory for storing a program code, and at least one processor for executing an operation by processing the program code, in which the operation includes obtaining information indicating a detection result according to an operation device that includes a detection section that detects an operation by a user, and calculating, on a basis of at least one of a type of the operation, the number of times for the operation, and an amount of execution time for the operation, points to be redeemed by a user.