Separate Game Server for Website Engagement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Websites face a barrier in providing interactive content due to the requirement of software expertise, which dissuades them from incorporating engaging activities that enhance user interaction.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for creating and serving online games embedded in webpages, where games are hosted separately from web servers, allowing website operators to design and configure games using an intuitive interface, incorporating website content to enhance user engagement. This system includes game servers with modules for game selection, content selection, game information, game indicators, and rewards, facilitating efficient game deployment and user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If websites incorporate interactive activities directly, then user engagement is enhanced, but software expertise requirement increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a game server as an intermediary component that hosts and manages game applications separately from the web server. This mediator handles the complex software logic, allowing the website to embed interactive games without requiring the website operator to have software expertise. The game server translates user interactions into game actions and returns results to the website, resolving the contradiction between enhanced user engagement and reduced software expertise requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The system divides the interactive functionality into separate modular components: the web server handles content delivery, the game server handles game logic and state management, and the client handles user interaction. This segmentation allows each component to be developed and maintained independently, enabling websites to incorporate interactive games without needing to master the entire software stack, thus reducing the expertise barrier while maintaining engagement capabilities.
2Ease of operation
If games are hosted on separate game servers, then website operational simplicity is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The game server acts as an intermediary that abstracts away the complexity of game management from the web server. The web server only needs to embed simple game indication objects and handle basic user requests, while the game server manages complex game logic, state, and multiplayer interactions. This intermediary approach simplifies website operation while the system handles the necessary complexity in the background.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses game indication objects that are served to the client and embedded in webpages. These objects act as lightweight representations or copies of the full game functionality, allowing the website to provide interactive games through simple embeddings without directly managing the complex game server infrastructure. The heavy lifting is done by the separate game server, while the website only needs to host the lightweight indication objects.
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AI summary
Online games embedded in webpages of websites may be created and/or served through a system and/or method. The games may be embedded in websites that are hosted separately from the games. The games may be designed by the website operators and/or other entities associated with the websites, and may include content from the websites to drive engagement with the websites and their content. An interface may be provided to the website operators to facilitate efficient and intuitive configuration of games that use website content. Such games may be served separately from the websites. As such, the games may provide a convenient, efficient, and/or effective mechanism for enhancing engagement of users with the website and/or its content.