Beacon Service Filtering via User Terminal Location Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing beacon services face challenges in providing users with relevant information, as they often display excessive data, leading to user annoyance, and require costly infrastructure for beacon device installation and maintenance, with limited signal coverage restricting information delivery to potential customers outside the shop's vicinity.
Innovation Solution
A user terminal system that filters and displays only relevant beacon signals based on intensity and usefulness, allowing users to receive location-specific content without the need for physical beacon devices, by using a signal receiving and selecting unit to identify the user's location and transmit approach information to a service server for tailored content provision.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If beacon terminals are installed in every shop to provide location-based services, then service coverage and information delivery capability are improved, but installation and maintenance costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses the user terminal's existing location information (from GPS, Wi-Fi, or other sources) as a copy or substitute for the physical beacon terminal infrastructure. Instead of requiring actual beacon devices in every shop, the system replicates the beacon functionality through software-based location detection on the user's own device, eliminating the need for expensive physical infrastructure deployment while maintaining service coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The user terminal is made multi-functional by enabling it to perform both its original functions and the additional function of detecting shop locations and providing relevant information. The single device (user terminal) serves multiple purposes: navigation, communication, and now location-based service delivery, eliminating the need for separate beacon terminal infrastructure.
2Quantity of substance
If all received beacon contents are automatically displayed to users, then information completeness is improved, but user experience deteriorates due to information overload
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the relevant information from the complete set of received beacon contents. Instead of displaying all information, the patent selectively extracts and displays only those contents that are pertinent to the user's current location and context, filtering out unnecessary information while maintaining completeness of useful data.
Solution Approach 2:
The information display is made locally adapted to the user's specific situation. Rather than uniform display of all contents, the system adjusts what information is displayed based on local conditions - the user's current location, movement pattern, and contextual needs - ensuring that the right information is presented at the right time and place.
3Reliability
If beacon signal coverage is limited to shop vicinity only, then signal interference is reduced, but potential customers outside the vicinity cannot receive shop information
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from spatial dimension to temporal dimension for signal delivery. Instead of expanding the spatial coverage area of the beacon signal, the patent uses the user terminal's movement through space over time to deliver information. The signal is transmitted when the user is in the vicinity, but the information delivery extends beyond the immediate spatial range by utilizing the temporal aspect of the user's journey to and through the shop.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein are a beacon service method, and a device and a sever employed by the method. Contents information associated with a shop that a user is visiting is provided to the user by using only a beacon signal transmitted from the shop. For providing a beacon service, contents are filtered, so that only useful contents are displayed. In addition, a user terminal carried by a user is prompted to output a beacon signal, so that a nearby user terminal having recognized the beacon signal may be provided with location-based contents.