Augmented Reality Content Items for User Activity Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems fail to effectively track user activity related to promotions, such as visits to locations or purchases of products, and do not implement augmented reality content to redeem rewards based on these activities, leading to inefficiencies in tracking and redeeming promotions.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of augmented reality content items that analyze user activity through scanned data, such as QR codes or bar codes, to track visits and purchases, and provide options for redeeming promotions, thereby combining operations for identifying, tracking, and redeeming user activity in a single platform.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If existing systems are used to track user activity and redeem promotions, then promotion tracking and redemption can be performed, but computing and network resources are excessively consumed and efficiency is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveefficiency in tracking user activity and redeeming promotionsVSAvoiduse of computing and network resources
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple operations (identifying user activity, tracking activity, and redeeming promotions) into a single augmented reality content item that executes locally on the user's device. This integration eliminates the need for separate systems to handle each operation, reducing network communication overhead and computing resource consumption while improving overall efficiency in tracking user activity and redeeming promotions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Ease of operation

If existing systems are used for tracking user activity, then promotion tracking is possible, but the systems lack integration and require multiple separate operations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveintegration of tracking and redemption operationsVSAvoidnumber of separate systems required
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The augmented reality content item serves multiple functions within a single integrated system: it identifies user activity by scanning data, tracks the activity by updating local records, and enables promotion redemption. This multi-functional approach simplifies the user experience by providing seamless integration of tracking and redemption operations while reducing the complexity of having multiple separate systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20240273566A1Augmented reality content items to track user activity and redeem promotions
Publication Date: 2024.08.15 SNAP INC
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AI summary

The amount of user activity performed in relation to a promotion may be tracked based on user content captured via the client application. At least a portion of user content captured via the client application may be scanned and analyzed to identify user activity related to the user content. Augmented reality content items may be executable to generate content that is displayed in relation to the user content and that indicates an amount of user activity related to the promotion. In addition, the augmented reality content items may be executable to generate content in relation to the user content that indicates one or more redemption options for the promotion based on an amount of user activity performed by a user of the client application that captured the user content.