Cryptographic Token Styling for Personalized Wagering Game Features
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming systems lack the ability to provide personalized and customizable experiences for players, particularly in card games like poker, which often feature limited variability and default symbols, leading to reduced player engagement and loyalty.
Innovation Solution
Implementing cryptographic tokens, such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), to enable players to own unique virtual poker cards with customizable designs, animations, and prestige-indicating features, allowing for personalized gameplay experiences across various gaming platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If default symbols and standardized gameplay are used in wagering games, then game implementation is simple and reliable, but player engagement and loyalty are reduced due to lack of personalization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses cryptographic tokens (NFTs) as digital copies that represent unique virtual poker cards. These tokens are copied and distributed to players, allowing each player to have their own customized card design without requiring complex physical card manufacturing or distribution systems. The NFT copying mechanism enables personalization while maintaining system simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces cryptographic tokens as an intermediary between the gaming system and player customization. These tokens mediate the interaction by carrying encoded player preferences and triggering customized game features without requiring direct complex modifications to the core gaming software. The token acts as a bridge that simplifies the system architecture while enabling personalization.
2Ease of operation
If unique customizable virtual cards are implemented using cryptographic tokens, then player enjoyment and prestige are enhanced, but the complexity of the gaming system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cryptographic tokens are automatically recognized and processed by the gaming system without requiring manual configuration or complex user input. The system self-services by automatically retrieving player preferences from the tokens and applying the appropriate game features, reducing the operational burden on both the system and player while maintaining high engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes key parameters of the gaming system dynamically based on the cryptographic token data. Instead of hardcoding multiple game versions, the system adjusts parameters such as card designs, animations, and game features based on the token's encoded information, allowing personalization through parameter modification rather than system complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cryptographic tokens with event triggers are used to modify game features, then personalized gameplay is achieved, but the complexity of determining and implementing style changes increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cryptographic tokens contain pre-encoded event triggers and style indications that are prepared in advance. The system doesn't need to complexly detect and measure player behavior in real-time; instead, it reads the pre-programmed triggers from the tokens and executes the corresponding game feature changes automatically, simplifying the detection and implementation process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses the cryptographic token as a feedback mechanism that carries player identification and preference information. The token provides feedback about the player's desired game features directly to the system, eliminating the need for complex real-time analysis or measurement of player preferences, thereby reducing detection complexity while maintaining customization.
Data Source
AI summary
A system can perform operations to provide and/or maintain a cryptographic token associated with game features. The operations can include receiving an indication of a cryptographic token. The operations can further include determining that the cryptographic token comprises an indication to output a game feature using a first style that is different than a default style associated with a wagering game. The operations can further include determining that an event associated with triggering output of the game feature has occurred. The operations can further include outputting the game feature using the first style based on determining that the cryptographic token comprises the indication to output the game feature using the first style and determining that the event has occurred.