Status Image Generation for Multi-Device User Presence
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information processing systems face challenges in efficiently presenting user status across multiple devices connected to a network, particularly when users have multiple information processing devices using the same account, making it difficult for other users to easily track the status of their peers during online gaming or chat sessions.
Innovation Solution
The system includes a communication unit, an acquisition unit, and a status image generation unit that acquires and generates status images based on the latest status changes across multiple information processing devices sharing a user account, allowing for efficient presentation of user status through a server-connected network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If all terminals of a single user are presented to another user, then complete user status information is provided, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to the large amount of presented information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the most relevant status information (application name and status) from the complete terminal list and presents it in a simplified format. The status image generation unit selectively extracts key attributes from terminal data and displays them in an icon-based interface, filtering out unnecessary details while maintaining essential user status information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses color coding in the status image to indicate different user states. Different colors represent various statuses (e.g., online, offline, busy), allowing users to quickly perceive terminal status at a glance without reading detailed text information. This visual encoding significantly improves ease of operation while preserving complete status data.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple users are synchronized across remote locations, then collaborative gaming is enabled, but the device complexity increases due to the need for session management and status tracking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a simplified copy of user status information in the form of status images that can be displayed locally without requiring complex real-time synchronization mechanisms. Instead of maintaining complex session states across remote devices, the system copies essential status data into visual representations that can be independently displayed on each terminal, reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the complex user status tracking into individual status images for each user, which can be independently generated and displayed. Rather than managing a single complex global state, the system divides the status information into discrete, manageable units that can be tracked and presented separately for each user, simplifying the overall session management architecture.
Data Source
AI summary
An acquisition unit acquires presence information of an information processing device of another via server. When the acquisition unit acquires pieces of presence information including the same user account from two or more information processing devices, a status image generation unit generates a status image indicating a status of the user identified by the user account, by referring to the latest presence information. In order to represent the status of the user, the status image generation unit includes a name of an application being run by the user in the status image.