Code-Triggered Information Server for Proximity Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing schemes fail to effectively track and notify individuals of proximity based on their characteristic profiles and contextual surroundings, missing opportunities for targeted tracking and context-specific advertising.

Innovation Solution

A code-triggered information server (CTIS) that analyzes user behavioral patterns to determine and announce proximity between users by tracking their trajectories and interests, using scanned codes, web links, and virtual world activities, and provides context-specific advertising based on user profiles.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If existing tracking schemes are used, then basic location tracking is possible, but they fail to effectively track and notify individuals of proximity based on their characteristic profiles and contextual surroundings

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproximity detection accuracyVSAvoidcontext-specific tracking capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by analyzing and utilizing specific contextual surroundings (geographic location, time, ambient conditions) and characteristic profiles (user interests, behavioral patterns) to determine proximity. Instead of treating all users uniformly, the system tailors proximity detection to individual users' contexts, thereby improving both accuracy and adaptability simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-analyzing user profiles, interests, and behavioral patterns before proximity events occur. It pre-determines relevant contextual factors and prepares notification mechanisms, enabling accurate and context-specific proximity tracking without requiring real-time complex computations during the actual tracking event.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If comprehensive user profile analysis is performed, then advertising relevance is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising efficiencyVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex user profile analysis into distinct modular components: profile data collection module, behavioral pattern analysis module, contextual factor module, and advertising generation module. This segmentation allows each component to process specific aspects of user data independently, improving overall advertising efficiency while managing system complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that acts as a mediator between raw user data and advertising outputs. This intermediary layer (including pattern recognition algorithms and contextual analysis engines) processes and transforms complex user profile information into actionable advertising insights, thereby improving advertising efficiency without directly exposing system complexity to end users or requiring overly complex integrations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS8447510B2Apparatuses, methods and systems for determining and announcing proximity between trajectories
Publication Date: 2013.05.21 UPLAND SOFTWARE INC
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AI summary

Apparatuses, methods, and systems for signaling proximity of mobile devices. First activity information of a first mobile device and second activity information of a second mobile device are accumulated. A proximity boundary is established for the first mobile device. A location of the first mobile device is determined from the first activity information and a location of the second mobile device is determined from the second activity information. A determination is made whether the second mobile device is on or within the proximity boundary of the first mobile device. An alert is sent to at least the first mobile device that the proximity boundary has been breached when the second mobile device is on or within the proximity boundary of the first mobile device.