Server Device Integrating Video Viewing with Game Progression
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing video distribution systems do not effectively integrate video viewing with game progression, limiting the engagement and promotion of video content.
Innovation Solution
A server device that stores and distributes video data, incorporating user and video identification information to provide additional game changes or terminal changes based on viewing conditions, allowing for direct association of video viewing with game enhancements or terminal modifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If video data is distributed to video display terminals for viewing, then video provision is achieved, but user engagement with the video content is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges video viewing functionality with game functionality by integrating video display terminals into game terminals. The video viewing operation is combined with game progression, where watching videos provides direct game benefits such as obtaining game changes, rewards, or progression advantages. This integration makes video consumption more engaging and purposeful.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where video viewing directly influences game outcomes. When users watch videos, they receive immediate feedback in the form of game changes, rewards, or progression benefits. This feedback loop creates a stronger motivation for users to engage with video content, as they can directly observe the impact on their game experience.
2Adaptability or versatility
If video viewing is integrated with game progression, then user engagement is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes game terminals multi-functional by enabling them to serve both as game playing devices and as video display terminals. This universality allows a single device to perform multiple functions without requiring separate dedicated hardware for video viewing, thereby limiting the increase in system complexity while still improving user engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes the association between video content and game benefits through video management data that links user identification information with video identification information. This preliminary setup allows the integrated functionality to operate smoothly without requiring complex real-time processing or additional complexity during actual video viewing and game progression.
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AI summary
Provided is a server device capable of further promoting provision of videos. A center server stores video data to be distributed to user terminals connected via a network and distributes video data in response to a request from a user terminal. The center server also manages the video data so that a user ID and a video ID are associated and recorded and, when an additional condition including the viewing of individual videos as a requirement is satisfied, uses the video data as a basis to specify a first user corresponding via user ID to a video viewed through a user terminal in order to satisfy the additional requirement. Furthermore, when a user terminal additionally functions as a game terminal for providing a game, the center server provides additional information to the first user for adding a game change to the game.