Unified User Profile for Cross-Platform Game Progress Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of online games often need to create separate accounts for different social networking platforms, limiting cross-platform compatibility and making it difficult for progress to be accurately reflected across platforms, while also hindering business intelligence analysis for game providers.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that unites user accounts across multiple social networking platforms, using a federation module to identify and link user accounts, a business intelligence module to analyze user value, and a notification module to generate targeted notifications, allowing seamless access and analysis across platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users create separate accounts for different social networking platforms to play the online game, then users can access the game on each platform, but users cannot share progress across platforms and the system cannot accurately determine user value
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple platform-specific user accounts into a single unified user profile that consolidates game progress, statistics, and value metrics across Facebook, Google+, and other social networking platforms. This allows users to access the game through different platforms while maintaining a single source of truth for their game progress and achievements.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified user profile serves multiple functions simultaneously: it tracks game progress, aggregates business intelligence data, enables cross-platform recognition, and provides a universal identifier that works across different social networking platforms. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate accounts while maintaining platform-specific access capabilities.
2Ease of operation
If the online game is provided separately to each social networking platform, then users can log in from their respective platforms, but users cannot play with each other and progress cannot be reflected across platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The unified user profile acts as an intermediary layer between the game server and multiple social networking platforms. It receives authentication requests from various platforms, maintains a single user identity, and enables cross-platform gameplay while preserving the ease of platform-specific login through platform-specific access tokens and identifiers.
3Reliability
If user accounts remain separate across platforms, then each platform can track its own users independently, but business intelligence about user value is spread across multiple accounts and cannot be fully determined
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges fragmented user data from multiple platforms into a consolidated unified user profile that aggregates all game activities, spending patterns, time invested, and engagement metrics. This consolidation enables the game provider to determine complete user value and lifetime metrics that were previously scattered across separate platform accounts.
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AI summary
Individual users may log into the same online game from multiple different social networking platforms. The disclosed technology provides a way to unite users' accounts such that users that have logged into the online game from different social networking platforms can have their progress in the online game preserved regardless of which social networking platforms the user logged in from. Business intelligence about differences in the user's value when logging in from the different social networking platforms can be determined and incentivizing actions can be performed on the social networking platforms based on the business intelligence.