Virtual Item Trading Server for Parent-Child Profit Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users who modify 3D modeling data of avatars in a virtual space are unable to receive profits for their changes due to the lack of mechanisms to redistribute profits to creators of items used to create these modified avatars.
Innovation Solution
A trading support server that manages and tracks the association between seller users, their sales items, and parent items used to create those items, adding individual prices of both to the purchaser's charged amount, ensuring proper profit distribution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users are allowed to modify and trade derived items freely, then user creativity and platform activity increase, but original creators cannot receive profit redistribution
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a tree structure where parent items are nested within child items, creating a hierarchical relationship that tracks the origin of derived works. This nested structure allows the system to automatically identify and redistribute profits to original creators while maintaining user freedom to create and trade derived items.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes a feedback mechanism where sales information of derived items automatically triggers profit redistribution to parent item creators. The system continuously monitors trading activities and redistributes profits based on the predefined tree structure, ensuring original creators receive ongoing compensation without requiring manual intervention.
2Reliability
If the system tracks and redistributes profits to parent item creators, then creator rights are protected, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent requires users to declare parent items in advance when creating derived items, establishing the profit redistribution relationship before any trading occurs. This preliminary action simplifies subsequent operations by pre-configuring the tree structure and automatic profit distribution rules, reducing the need for complex real-time calculations and interventions.
3Reliability
If the system automatically charges for parent items when derived items are traded, then profit distribution is ensured, but transaction processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-configures the tree structure and profit distribution rules during item creation, storing this information in advance. When a derived item is traded, the system simply retrieves and executes the pre-defined redistribution rules rather than performing complex real-time calculations, significantly reducing transaction processing time while ensuring accurate profit distribution.
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AI summary
A trading support server for items of a virtual space:stores a seller who wishes to put up a sales item, the sales item, and an individual price,causes the seller to declare a parent item used to create the sales item, and stores information identifying the parent item,determines whether a parent item is associated with a specific item, and where a parent item is associated with the specific item, adds individual prices of the specific item and the parent item to a charged amount, andadds the individual price of the specific item to a sales amount of a seller of the specific item, and the individual price of the parent item to a sales amount of a seller of the parent item where the purchaser has paid the charged amount having the individual prices of both the specific item and the parent item added.