Virtual-Physical Activity Association System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies fail to effectively integrate user activities across virtual and physical environments, leading to a lack of personalized experiences that enhance user engagement and interaction between these two domains.
Innovation Solution
A system that associates user activities in virtual spaces with real-world activities by maintaining activity histories and using personalization components to determine and implement changes, additions, or enhancements in both environments based on user interactions, thereby creating a connected and enriched experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If user activities in virtual and physical environments are kept separate, then system complexity is reduced, but user engagement and personalization are diminished
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system comprising processors and activity histories that mediate between virtual and physical environments. This intermediary associates user activities across both domains, enabling personalization without requiring direct complex integration between the environments themselves. The intermediary processes and correlates data, providing a buffer that manages complexity while achieving integration benefits.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a universal activity history structure that serves multiple functions: storing virtual activities, storing physical activities, associating them together, and generating personalizations. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems, reducing overall complexity while enhancing adaptability and personalization capabilities.
2Adaptability or versatility
If user activities are integrated across virtual and physical environments, then user experience is enhanced, but data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential activity data needed for personalization from the broader virtual and physical environments. Rather than processing all possible data, the system selectively captures and associates specific user activities that are relevant to personalization goals. This extraction approach reduces data processing volume while maintaining personalization effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by processing and associating activities at specific points where they occur in virtual and physical environments, rather than centralizing all processing. Activity histories are maintained locally and associated based on user identity, allowing distributed data processing that reduces overall computational burden while achieving integration benefits.
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AI summary
A system for associating virtual activity of a user in a virtual space and a real-world activity of a user in a physical environment are presented herein. User activities and/or experiences within the physical environment and/or the virtual environment may be created (e.g., new experiences/personalizations being presented to the user), changed, accelerated, and/or otherwise managed such that each one enhances the other and/or enriches the overall experiences of the users over time.