GAME RECOMMENDATION ENGINE FOR MAPPING GAMES TO DISABILITIES

• US 20120197874A1
• Filed: 01/24/2012
• Published: 08/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DataDna Inc.
• Original Assignee: Electronic Entertainment Design And Research
• Inventors: Zatkin, Geoffrey C., Short, Gregory T.
• Granted Patent: US 8,825,642 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/67 adaptively or by learning from player actions, e.g. skill level adjustment or by storing successful combat sequences for re-use
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/798 for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for generating a hall of fame computing the game score A63F13/46
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/407 Data transfer via internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/558 by assessing the players' skills or ranking
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6027 using adaptive systems learning from user actions, e.g. for skill level adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3216 Construction aspects of a gaming system, e.g. housing, seats, ergonomic aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters

Abstract

A game recommendation engine is presented. Contemplated game recommendation engines are configured to establish correlations among game attributes and attributes of known disabilities. The recommendation engine can further identify or quantify relationships among games and disabilities having the correlated attributes. The relationships can be used to generate and present recommendations to users. For example, a game design can receive recommendations on game features to incorporate into game to be compatible with or accessible to a disabled person, or a disable person can receive recommendations on games that are accessible to or compatible with o them based on their disabilities.

Claims

1. A game recommendation engine, the engine comprising:

a game database storing a plurality of game objects representing games, each game object including game attributes;

a disability database storing disability objects representing disabilities, each disability object disability attributes;

a query interface configured to accept a query; and

a correlation engine coupled with the game database and the query interface, and configure to;

establish correlations among game attributes and disability attributes where at least some of the game attributes and disability attributes satisfy the query;

identify relationships among game objects and disability objects as a function of the correlations;

generate a recommendation on associating a game attribute of from the game objects with the disability objects based on the relationships; and

configure an output device to present the recommendation in response to the query.

2. The engine of claim 1, wherein the recommendation includes and indication the game attribute is accessible to individuals having disabilities associated with the disability objects.

3. The engine of claim 1, wherein the recommendation includes an indication the game attribute is inaccessible to individuals having disabilities associated with the disability objects.

4. The engine of claim 1, wherein the recommendation includes an indication that an identify disability associated with the disability objects is incompatible with game play associated with the game objects.

5. The engine of claim 1, wherein the recommendation includes an indication that an identify disability associated with the disability objects is compatible with game play associated with the game objects.

6. The engine of claim 1, wherein the recommendation includes a ranked listing of recommendations according to compatibility scores between game attributes and disability attributes derived from the correlations.

7. The engine of claim 6, wherein the recommendations include recommended features derived from the game objects and ranked according to the compatibility scores.

8. The engine of claim 6, wherein the recommendations include recommended disabilities derived from disability objects and ranked according to the compatibility scores

9. The engine of claim 1, further comprising a development environment interface configured to couple with a development environment.

10. The engine of claim 9, wherein the development environment interface comprises the query interface and the query is received automatically from the development environment.

11. The engine of claim 1, wherein the query comprises a representation of game play from a disable individual game player.

12. The engine of claim 11, wherein the recommendations include a listing of disabilities derived from disability objects related to game objects and that are associated with the game play.

13. The engine of claim 1, wherein the game objects represent video games.

14. The engine of claim 13, wherein the game attributes include at least one of the following:

a video game genre, a video game interface, and a video game feature.