Virtual Territory Control via Blockchain-Based Benefit Distribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online gaming platforms lack effective systems for controlling and managing benefit-producing virtual territories, particularly in shared environments where player groups exchange fungible digital articles for access and control, leading to inefficiencies in distributing in-game benefits.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilizes a distributed permanent registry, such as a blockchain, to track and manage the ownership and control of virtual territories, enabling players to exchange fungible digital articles for access, with distributions based on continued control, and allowing trading of these territories among players.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a distributed permanent registry is used to track ownership and control of virtual territories, then security and transparency of transactions are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a distributed permanent registry (blockchain) as an intermediary layer between players and virtual territories. This registry acts as a neutral mediator that records ownership and control rights immutably, ensuring security without requiring complex trust relationships between players. The registry mediates the exchange of fungible digital articles for territory access, providing transparent verification while keeping the game logic relatively simple.
2Adaptability or versatility
If players can trade fungible digital articles for access to virtual territories, then player engagement and economy are improved, but difficulty of managing control and distributions increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic control mechanisms where virtual territory access and distribution rights are not permanently fixed but can change based on player actions. Players can acquire, trade, and transfer control of virtual territories and their associated distributions through the exchange of fungible digital articles. The system dynamically updates ownership records in the distributed registry and adjusts distribution flows accordingly, enabling flexible player-driven economy while maintaining clear control management through automated smart contract execution.
3Reliability
If distributions are provided based on continued control of virtual territories, then fairness of benefit distribution is improved, but measurement and verification difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the distributed permanent registry continuously tracks and verifies player control of virtual territories. The system automatically monitors control status and uses this feedback to determine distribution eligibility. When control status changes (through trade or transfer), the registry updates the ownership records and subsequently adjusts distributions in real-time, ensuring fair benefit allocation based on actual control without requiring complex manual verification processes.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods to control benefit-producing virtual territories in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players; receive instructions from sets of players to obtain access to distributions associated with particular virtual territories in the game, wherein access is obtained in exchange for particular amounts of fungible digital articles; determine whether to provide a particular distribution of in-game benefits, produced in and/or by a particular virtual territory, to a particular set of players, based at least in part on whether the particular set of players continues to control the particular virtual territory; and responsive to the determination, provide the particular distribution to the particular set of players.