Context-Aware Transportation Framework for Integrated User Experience

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current transportation apps lack a holistic view of the user's experience, failing to integrate journey management with retail, loyalty programs, entertainment, and advertising revenue attribution, resulting in a limited and fragmented user experience.

Innovation Solution

A framework that connects user devices to various transportation systems and external networks, determining user context to provide a comprehensive transportation experience, including journey management, retail services, loyalty programs, and targeted advertising, through interconnected components such as transportation user processing, journey management, hospitality, and advertising collection and processing subsystems.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a framework integrates multiple subsystems (transportation user processing, journey management, hospitality, advertising collection and processing) to provide comprehensive transportation experience, then user experience and engagement are enhanced, but device complexity and system integration difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomprehensive transportation experienceVSAvoidsystem integration difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system is divided into distinct subsystems including transportation user processing subsystem, journey management subsystem, hospitality subsystem, and advertising collection and processing subsystem. Each subsystem handles specific functions independently, allowing the complex integrated system to be managed through modular components that can be developed, maintained, and scaled separately while working together through defined interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The framework is designed as a universal platform that handles multiple functions across different domains - transportation management, user experience personalization, retail integration, loyalty program management, and advertising revenue generation. This multi-functional approach allows a single integrated system to serve diverse purposes rather than requiring separate specialized systems.

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

2Measurement precision

If the framework collects and processes multiple types of user data for context determination, then data accuracy for future predictions improves, but user privacy concerns and data security requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata accuracy for predictionsVSAvoiduser privacy concerns
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The framework determines user context by collecting specific types of data relevant to particular situations rather than universally collecting all possible user information. The data collection is tailored to the local context - gathering only the necessary information needed for specific transportation and personalization functions, thereby reducing unnecessary data accumulation and associated privacy risks while maintaining prediction accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses collected user data to provide personalized transportation experiences and services, then uses the resulting user interactions and responses as feedback to refine future data collection strategies. This feedback loop allows the system to learn which data is truly necessary for accurate predictions and personalization, enabling more precise and minimal data collection over time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11544733B2System and method for context transportation user experience
Publication Date: 2023.01.03 CHANGE TRANSIT LTD
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AI summary

What is disclosed is a system to enable a user with an associated user device to receive a context dependent transportation experience, further wherein said system comprises a framework comprising one or more components, wherein said one or more components are coupled to each other and the user device via one or more interconnections; wherein said framework determines at least one context associated with said user and said user device; and wherein based on said determined context, said framework performs one or more actions.