Automatic Content Sharing via Time and Location Triggers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information sharing methods fail to effectively convey a sharer's intended meaning at a specific time or location, and are cumbersome for scheduling future content sharing, often resulting in missed opportunities or forgotten sharing tasks.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that allow user equipment, such as mobile devices, to share content when preset conditions like time or geographic location are met, enabling automatic sharing of specified content with a user when these conditions are fulfilled, using a network environment like mobile data or WiFi.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If information is shared immediately upon creation, then the sharing process is simple and fast, but the information cannot effectively express the sharer's meaning at a specific future time or location
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows users to pre-configure sharing rules with specified conditions (time, location, triggering content) before the actual sharing event occurs. When the triggering content is created or the specified conditions are met, the system automatically executes the sharing action without requiring manual intervention at that moment, thus preserving the sharer's intended meaning for future delivery.
2Reliability
If manual notification and scheduling is used for future content sharing, then the sharing can be timed appropriately, but the process becomes cumbersome and users may forget or delay execution
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables users to set up automatic sharing rules that execute themselves based on predefined conditions. Once configured, the system autonomously monitors for triggering content or condition fulfillment and automatically performs the sharing action, eliminating the need for manual reminders, notifications, or intervention. This self-executing mechanism ensures reliable timely delivery while maintaining operational simplicity.
3Reliability
If automatic sharing based on conditions is implemented, then timely and accurate content delivery is achieved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple sharing conditions (time-based, location-based, and content-based triggering) into a unified automatic sharing framework. By merging these different condition types and their evaluation logic into a single integrated system, the patent achieves reliable and accurate content delivery based on complex conditions while avoiding the need for separate manual systems for each condition type, thus managing system complexity efficiently.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an information sharing method and apparatus. The method includes: sharing, by a first terminal, specified content with a specified sharing user when a preset sharing condition is met, where the sharing condition is at least one of the following factors: a current time of the first terminal is a preset time; a current time of the first terminal falls within a preset time range; a current geographic location of the first terminal is a preset geographic location; or a current geographic location of the first terminal falls within a preset geographic location range. According to the present invention, a sharing condition such as a time or a geographic location is preset, and content is shared with a specified user according to the sharing condition, thereby simplifying complexity of sharing information in a future time period and improving usability of information sharing.