Virtual Item Rights Segmentation for Dynamic Marketplace Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies do not effectively address the distribution of items in a Virtual Reality (VR) space, particularly in promoting the sale and resale of virtual items.

Innovation Solution

An item distribution control device and method that allows for the sale and resale of virtual items in a VR space by enabling users to offer and purchase ownership and resale rights separately, with a settlement manager ensuring fair compensation to original owners.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If only ownership is sold without resale right, then the original owner retains control over further distribution, but the item distribution in VR space is limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveitem distributionVSAvoidsales flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the rights associated with an item into two distinct components: ownership and resale right. This allows the original owner to sell only ownership while retaining the resale right, or to sell both together. The segmentation enables flexible distribution models where items can be resold by purchasers if they acquired both rights, while maintaining control mechanisms for the original owner.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If resale right is included in the sale, then item distribution is promoted through multiple resales, but the original owner loses control over further distribution

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveitem distributionVSAvoidcontrol mechanism

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

By separating ownership and resale right into distinct sellable units, the system allows the original owner to maintain control by choosing not to transfer the resale right, while still enabling distribution through ownership transfer. The control mechanism is preserved through the optional nature of resale right transfer.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a control mechanism where the original owner receives notifications and can approve or reject resale transactions. This feedback loop ensures that while distribution is promoted through resales, the original owner maintains oversight and control over the item's distribution path in the VR space.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If both ownership and resale right are sold as a set, then distribution is promoted, but purchase options become less flexible for buyers

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveitem distributionVSAvoidpurchase option

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the item rights into separable components (ownership and resale right) that can be sold independently or together. This segmentation provides buyers with flexible purchase options: they can buy only ownership for personal use, or buy both ownership and resale right if they intend to resell. The original owner can also choose which combination to offer.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

4Reliability

If the system tracks resale rights and ownership separately, then distribution control is precise, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontrol mechanismVSAvoidsystem structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that manages and tracks the separation between ownership and resale right. The server stores item information including ownership status and resale right status, and mediates all transactions to ensure proper tracking. This intermediary handles the complexity of separate tracking, keeping the user-facing system relatively simple while maintaining precise control.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250104122A1Item distribution control device, item distribution control program, item distribution control method, VR terminal, VR terminal program, and VR terminal control method

Publication Date: 2025.03.27 DENTSU INC

AI summary

Provided are: an item distribution control device that promotes the distribution of an item in a VR space; an item distribution control program and an item distribution control method; a VR terminal used therefor; a program for a VR terminal; and a VR terminal control method. The present invention controls the distribution of an item by: accepting, from a first user who has item ownership rights and resale rights, either a first sale offer offering to sell the item ownership rights and resale rights, as a set, to another user, or a second sale offer offering to sell only the item ownership rights to another user; accepting, from a second user, either a first purchase offer offering to purchase the item ownership rights and resale rights, as a set, from the first user, or a second purchase offer offering to purchase only the item ownership rights from the first user; and registering, in a user information database, information indicating which user has item ownership rights and resale rights.