Digital Landmarks for Location-Based Media Discovery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in finding relevant creative digital media due to the vast amount of available content, as existing search functionalities rely on proper query construction and are not practical for all devices, especially when users are unsure of what they are looking for, and not all devices are suitable for performing searches.

Innovation Solution

A system that determines a user's geographic location using GPS or other algorithms and identifies creative digital media associated with that location, providing notifications and recommendations to the user, including media that is relevant to their current or previous locations, while ensuring only authorized content is accessed.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users manually search for creative digital media using search functionality, then users can locate specific creative digital media, but users need to construct proper search queries and spend substantial time viewing search results and refining queries

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch accuracyVSAvoidsearch time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-tags creative digital media with geographic location information and metadata before users need to search. When a user enters a location, the system has already organized and indexed the relevant media content, enabling immediate retrieval without requiring users to manually construct queries or iterate through search results.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces geographic location data as an intermediary parameter between the user and the creative digital media database. Instead of directly searching through all media content, users search by location, and the system uses this location intermediary to automatically filter and retrieve relevant media, eliminating the need for complex query construction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If users manually search for creative digital media, then users can find relevant content, but not all devices capable of playing creative digital media are suitable for performing searches

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch capabilityVSAvoiddevice accessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs the search and filtering operations automatically on the server side without requiring the user's device to have advanced search capabilities. The device simply needs to provide location data and receive results, making the search function accessible on any device that can play creative digital media, regardless of its processing power or search functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary that handles the complex search and filtering operations. The user's device only needs to communicate location information and receive results, transferring the computational burden from the client device to the server, thereby enabling search functionality on resource-constrained devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Quantity of substance

If the amount of creative digital media grows at an ever-increasing rate, then more content is available to users, but it becomes increasingly more difficult for users to find relevant creative digital media

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent volumeVSAvoidrelevance identification
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the large volume of creative digital media by geographic location, creating location-specific subsets of content. Instead of presenting users with the entire database, the system divides and organizes content into manageable location-based segments, making it easier for users to find relevant media among the vast总量的 content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by associating specific metadata and tags with creative digital media based on their geographic relevance. Each piece of media has location-specific attributes that enable precise filtering, ensuring that users receive content with high local relevance to their queried location rather than generic results from the entire database.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS9781555B2Digital landmarks
Publication Date: 2017.10.03 ADEIA MEDIA HOLDINGS INC
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AI summary

Techniques are described for providing an indication of creative digital media associated with a geographic location. Embodiments determine positional information corresponding to a geographic location. One or more instances of creative digital media that include content with a predefined association with the geographic location are identified from a plurality of instances of creative digital media. Embodiments provide an indication of at least a portion of the identified instances of creative digital media.