Server-Mediated Position Management for Wireless Game Device Pairing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing game apparatuses face difficulties in facilitating data communication between devices due to challenges in locating suitable communication partners while outdoors, leading to reduced user engagement.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system comprising multiple apparatuses and a server that acquire and manage communication positions, enabling automatic wireless connections and data transmission, with record information generation and output to facilitate data exchange and enhance user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If automatic wireless communication is implemented without position management, then device complexity is reduced, but data communication facilitation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
A server apparatus is introduced as an intermediary to manage communication position information. The server receives position data from multiple information processing apparatuses, generates record information indicating communication records, and transmits this information back to the apparatuses. This mediator handles the complexity of position management centrally, allowing individual apparatuses to maintain simple structures while still achieving facilitated data communication through the server-coordinated position matching system.
2Ease of operation
If communication position management is implemented, then data communication facilitation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server apparatus serves as a centralized intermediary that assumes the complexity of position management. Individual information processing apparatuses only need to transmit their position information to the server and receive record information in return, maintaining their operational simplicity. The server handles the complex tasks of collecting position data from multiple apparatuses, generating communication records, and distributing this information back, thereby achieving improved data communication facilitation without increasing the complexity of individual apparatuses.
3Measurement precision
If manual location searching is required for wireless communication, then position information accuracy is improved, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by having information processing apparatuses automatically transmit their position information to the server in advance. The server then generates and stores record information containing communication position data before any communication attempt occurs. When users need to find communication partners, this pre-prepared position information is immediately available, eliminating the need for manual location searching while maintaining accurate position data for facilitating wireless communication.
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AI summary
Provided is an information processing system which facilitates data communication between an information processing apparatus and another apparatus. Position data indicative of a position, at which the information processing apparatus which makes up the information processing system automatically performs short-distance wireless communication, is transmitted to a server. The server accumulates and stores the position indicated by the position data transmitted from each information processing apparatus. The position data accumulated and stored at the server is transmitted to an information processing apparatus when the server receives the request therefrom.