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Solution Overview
Problem
Current information distribution architectures require users to manually navigate through multiple steps to access desired web content based on their location, lacking an automated system that provides personalized and location-based web content.
Innovation Solution
A method that determines a user's location and selects relevant resource providers to automatically provide content, such as homepages or bookmarks, to their communication device, allowing for location-based access to vendor information without manual navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If manual navigation through search engines and multiple web pages is used to access location-based content, then users can access desired information, but the process requires multiple steps and consumes significant time
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures the browser homepage and bookmarks with location-based content before the user needs it. When the user enters a new location, the system has already prepared the relevant resource provider content and automatically updates the browser homepage, eliminating the need for users to manually navigate through search engines and multiple pages to find location-based information.
Solution Approach 2:
The browser application automatically detects location changes and updates its own homepage and bookmarks without user intervention. The system self-manages the process of identifying relevant resource providers, retrieving their content, and presenting it to the user, thereby eliminating manual navigation steps and reducing time loss.
2Adaptability or versatility
If generic web content is pushed to users based on location, then users receive location-relevant information, but the content is not personalized to user preferences or profiles
Solution Approach 1:
The system tailors the web content to each user's specific preferences and profile characteristics while maintaining location-based relevance. Different users receiving the same location-based content will see personalized variations based on their individual profiles, ensuring that the content adapts to both location and personal preferences rather than being generic.
Solution Approach 2:
The content delivery system dynamically adapts to both location changes and user profile characteristics. The system continuously adjusts the presented content based on real-time location data and stored user preference information, creating a dynamic personalization experience that responds to changing conditions rather than providing static generic content.
3Ease of operation
If automated location-based content delivery is implemented, then user convenience is improved, but the system complexity increases requiring location tracking and automatic browser modification
Solution Approach 1:
The browser application performs multiple functions: it serves as a standard web browser, a location tracker, a content selector, and an automatic updater. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single multi-functional browser application, the system reduces overall complexity compared to having separate dedicated systems for each function, while still providing automated location-based content delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system combines location tracking, content selection, and browser modification capabilities into an integrated solution. The browser application merges the functionality of a GPS receiver, a content management system, and a web browser into one unified application, simplifying the user experience while managing system complexity through integration rather than separate components.
Data Source
AI summary
A system is provided that includes: (a) a tracking module 140 operable to determine physical locations of subscribers and when a physical location of a selected subscriber has changed and (b) in response to a change in the physical location of the selected subscriber, a content provider 144 operable to select, from among a set of resource providers, a smaller set of resource providers of potential interest to the selected subscriber and provide to the selected subscriber's communication device resource provider content 134 associated with one or more members of the subset of resource providers.