Context Server Personalized Point-of-Interest Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wireless telecommunication networks provide standardized points-of-interest (PoI) information to all vehicles in a geographic area without consideration for individual vehicle or driver preferences, leading to irrelevant information being displayed to drivers.

Innovation Solution

A context server creates a context bundle that includes both standard and personalized PoI information, using vehicle-specific data to determine which PoIs are most relevant to each driver, and displays them in a highlighted manner, while also collecting feedback on driver behavior to assess campaign effectiveness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If standardized PoI information is provided to all vehicles in a geographic area, then the system implementation is simple and uniform, but the information relevance to individual drivers deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem implementation simplicityVSAvoidinformation relevance
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments PoI information into two distinct categories: standardized PoI information (provided to all vehicles) and personalized PoI information (tailored to individual drivers based on vehicle-specific data). This segmentation allows the system to maintain simple standardized information delivery while adding personalized information to improve relevance, directly resolving the contradiction between implementation simplicity and information relevance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Loss of information

If personalized PoI information is provided to each driver based on vehicle-specific data, then the information relevance improves, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation relevanceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that receives vehicle-specific data from multiple vehicles, processes this data to generate personalized PoI information, and delivers it to the appropriate vehicles. This intermediary approach centralizes the complex processing tasks, allowing individual vehicle systems to remain relatively simple while still receiving highly relevant personalized information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Quantity of substance

If all PoI information is displayed to drivers, then complete information coverage is achieved, but driver attention and awareness are reduced due to information overload

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation coverageVSAvoiddriver attention
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by tailoring the information content to each driver's specific needs, preferences, and vehicle characteristics. Instead of providing uniform information to all drivers, the system customizes the PoI information displayed to each driver based on their vehicle-specific data, ensuring that the information is both comprehensive for that individual driver and highly relevant to their specific context, thereby maintaining driver attention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10715947B2System and method for providing customized point-of-interest information
Publication Date: 2020.07.14 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods described herein may be used to provide users personalized point-of-interest (PoI) information. A context server may cause information, describing PoIs in a particular geographic area, to be sent to a device (e.g., a component of a vehicle, a user device, etc.) communicating with a wireless telecommunication network. The device may individually determine which PoIs to display to the user based on factors such as a current location of the device, an operating status or condition of a vehicle associated with the device, and historical behavior information. The PoIs sent to the vehicles may include a personalized PoI that may be displayed to drivers in a highlighted manner. Additionally, the device may collect driving behavior information relative to the PoIs and/or the personalized PoI and provide the driving behavior information to the context server as feedback.