API Personalization Storage for Cross-App Map Sync
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users cannot access their personalized digital map content across different software applications and third-party web sites that utilize the same map service provider's API, limiting the consistency and availability of personalized geographic representations.
Innovation Solution
An application programming interface (API) is developed to store and share personalization content across various software applications and web sites, allowing users to access and modify digital maps based on their personalized settings, regardless of the device or application used, by receiving user identifiers and applying personalization data to create synchronized map representations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a map service provider allows users to personalize digital maps via a dedicated web site, then users can access personalized map content on that web site, but users cannot access the same personalized content when third-party web sites display digital maps using the provider's API
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal personalization content storage system that serves multiple functions: storing personalization data for the map service provider's own web site, making it accessible to third-party web sites using the API, and enabling synchronization across different devices and applications. This multi-functional approach allows the same personalization content to be accessed universally across different platforms without requiring separate storage systems for each application type.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary personalization content storage system that acts as a mediator between the map service provider's API and various applications (both the provider's own web site and third-party web sites). This intermediary storage layer receives personalization content from users, stores it in a standardized format, and provides it to any application that requests personalized maps through the API, thereby enabling cross-application accessibility without direct integration between each application pair.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple independent digital maps are created for the same geographic area, then each map can be customized independently, but personalization content cannot be shared between independently created maps
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a centralized personalization content storage system that stores personalization content as reusable templates. When multiple digital maps are created for the same geographic area, the system automatically copies the relevant personalization content from the centralized storage to each map instance, rather than requiring manual recreation. This copying mechanism ensures that personalization content is consistently applied across all independent maps while avoiding information loss or duplication issues.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the personalization content management function with the map creation process by integrating a personalization content storage system that operates across multiple independent map instances. This merging allows the system to automatically synchronize personalization content across independently created maps, ensuring that updates to personalization content in one map are reflected in all other maps that use the same content, thereby eliminating the need for separate personalization management for each map.
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AI summary
A mapping API provides a digital map via a user interface of a computing device. When invoked by a software application, the mapping API is configured to receive an identifier of a user operating the software application, provide a first interactive digital map including a representation of a certain geographic area for display by the software application, where the first interactive digital map is personalizable via the software application, receive personalization content from the user via the software application, and cause a second digital map including a representation of the geographic area, when provided to the same user, to be modified in view of the personalization content, where the first digital map and the second digital map are created independently.