Virtual Organization Creation Through IP-Mapped Regions for Privacy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing virtual organization creation methods in gaming environments expose players' geographical locations, leading to privacy leakage.
Innovation Solution
Create virtual organizations based on IP addresses mapping to virtual regions defined by countries or administrative regions, displaying organization identifiers and language attributes without revealing actual geographical locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If virtual organizations are created based on actual geographical locations, then players can form organizations with nearby teammates, but player privacy is exposed through location disclosure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a virtual region as an intermediary concept between actual geographical location and virtual organization. Instead of directly using real locations (which expose privacy), the system maps locations to virtual regions that serve as mediators. Players interact with virtual regions rather than their actual locations, maintaining organization formation capability while protecting privacy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the geographical space through virtual regions. These virtual regions are representations that preserve the functional aspects of geographical proximity for organization formation, while discarding the privacy-exposing actual location data. The virtual region acts as a surrogate that maintains the needed functionality without the harmful privacy exposure.
2Ease of operation
If actual geographical locations are used for virtual organizations, then location-based grouping is achieved, but player security is compromised through location exposure
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual region serves as a protective intermediary that enables location-based grouping functionality without exposing actual locations. The system maintains the security benefit of knowing players are in similar regions while preventing the security risk of exposing precise geographical data through the virtual region abstraction layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a security-protecting copy of location information through virtual regions. This copy retains the useful grouping capability while eliminating the harmful security exposure. The virtual region is a simplified representation that maintains proximity relationships without revealing actual geographical coordinates or locations.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If IP addresses are mapped to virtual regions, then privacy is protected, but the precision of location-based organization is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter of location representation from precise actual coordinates to virtual region identifiers. This parameter transformation sacrifices fine-grained precision for privacy protection, mapping multiple actual locations to a single virtual region. The system accepts this precision trade-off as necessary for achieving the privacy protection benefit.
Data Source
AI summary
This application discloses a method for creating a virtual organization in a target game application performed by an electronic device. The method includes: acquiring an organization identifier of a target virtual organization to be created by a first game account; determining, in a preset virtual region set, a target virtual region matching a first IP address used by the first game account to log into the target game application, which is a virtual region to which a country or an administrative region in which the first IP address is located is mapped; creating the target virtual organization located in the target virtual region in response to a creation instruction triggered by the first game account; and displaying the organization identifier of the target virtual organization and attribute information of the target virtual region, including a language used by a game account in the virtual organization created in the target virtual region.