Portal Server Participation State Management for Cyberspace Rejoining
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Solution Overview
Problem
In virtual spaces and shared cyberspaces, users face limitations in joining or rejoining due to capacity constraints, leading to difficulties in moving between spaces without guaranteed return access.
Innovation Solution
A computer system manages participation by setting a participation allowed state for users, allowing them to rejoin previously occupied spaces after leaving, based on specific user certification and participation possibility determination, ensuring seamless movement between cyberspaces with limited capacity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users are allowed to move freely between virtual spaces, then user experience and flexibility are improved, but capacity management and reliability of space participation become problematic
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by setting a participation allowed state for users before they actually rejoin a virtual space. When a user leaves a space, the system proactively marks them as allowed to participate again, ensuring that when they attempt to return, their participation is guaranteed regardless of current capacity. This preliminary marking resolves the contradiction by preparing the system in advance to accommodate the user's return.
2Productivity
If capacity limits are enforced to manage virtual spaces, then space management efficiency is improved, but user accessibility and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by automatically managing user participation status without requiring manual intervention. When users leave virtual spaces, the system automatically sets their participation allowed state, and when they attempt to rejoin, the system automatically checks and permits their participation based on the pre-set state. This automated self-service mechanism maintains capacity management efficiency while simplifying user operations, as users simply need to attempt rejoining without dealing with complex capacity checks.
3Quantity of substance
If multiple server systems are used to accommodate large user numbers, then system capacity is improved, but system complexity and difficulty of management increase
Solution Approach 1:
The participation allowed state mechanism serves multiple functions across different server systems and virtual spaces. A single user participation status marker can be universally applied across multiple cyberspaces, allowing users to move between spaces managed by different servers while maintaining their rejoining rights. This universal state management reduces the need for complex per-server tracking mechanisms and simplifies overall system management while supporting large user numbers across multiple systems.
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AI summary
A portal server system manages a plurality of cyberspaces in which users can participate. Each cyberspace is associated with a participation disallowance condition including at least a condition that participation exceeding a given allowable number of participants is not allowed. The portal server system includes a participation possibility determination section that determines whether a user can participate in a cyberspace based on the participation disallowance condition associated with the cyberspace, and a participation allowed state setting section that, when a given specific user participating in a first cyberspace among the cyberspaces leaves the first cyberspace, sets the specific user to a participation allowed state in which the participation possibility determination section allows the specific user to participate in the first cyberspace.