Decentralized Location Network for Mobile Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current location-based services rely on centralized systems, which lead to performance issues, high infrastructure costs, and privacy concerns due to the need for a middleman service for location-dependent features and functionality, and existing methods for automatically locating mobile devices are costly and time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of Location Based eXchanges (LBX) enables peer-to-peer interactions between mobile data processing systems, allowing them to determine their own locations and share this information without relying on a centralized service, using methods such as triangulation, assisted direct location technology, and heterogeneous location methods to automatically locate indirectly located devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If centralized location-based services are used, then location-dependent features and functionality can be provided, but infrastructure costs increase and performance issues occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized location-based service into distributed peer-to-peer interactions between mobile devices. Each device independently determines its location and shares it with others directly, eliminating the need for a centralized service infrastructure while maintaining location-based functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
Mobile devices perform self-location determination using onboard sensors and processors. Each device independently calculates its position through triangulation or other location methods and autonomously shares this information with peer devices, removing dependence on centralized service providers.
2Loss of information
If centralized data storage is used, then all location data can be maintained, but user privacy concerns increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the centralized data storage function from the system architecture. Location data is no longer stored centrally but remains distributed across individual mobile devices, with each device maintaining its own location information locally without requiring centralized storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces encrypted peer-to-peer communication as an intermediary mechanism. Location data is transmitted between devices through encrypted channels, ensuring that no third party or centralized service can access or compromise the data, thus protecting user privacy while maintaining data availability.
3Measurement precision
If traditional location methods are used, then devices can be located, but the process is time-consuming and costly
Solution Approach 1:
Mobile devices continuously monitor and determine their location in advance using onboard sensors, processors, and available signals. This preliminary location determination ensures that position information is readily available when needed for peer-to-peer interactions, eliminating delays associated with on-demand location queries.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional centralized location determination systems with distributed sensor-based localization. Mobile devices use onboard accelerometers, GPS receivers, Wi-Fi positioning, and other sensors to autonomously determine position, replacing costly and time-consuming centralized processing with fast, local computational operations.
Data Source
AI summary
Mobile data processing Systems (MSs) interact with systems in their vicinity, and with each other, in communications and interoperability. Information transmitted inbound to, transmitted outbound from, is in process at, or is application modified at a mobile data processing system triggers processing of actions in accordance with user configurations, for example to present content to a user. The locatable network of MSs is referred to as a Location-Network Expanse.