Distributed Rule Base for Mobile User Intent Prediction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Legacy systems for collecting Internet user demographics and predicting user intentions based on spatial information fail to scale with the number of users and devices, leading to increased burdens on centralized computing infrastructures and limited capabilities in determining user activity and intentions across multiple locations.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a system that delivers a rule base to a mobile device using location beacon identification values, allowing for real-time spatial information processing to predict user interests and intentions, reducing computer memory usage, processing power demands, and communication overhead.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If centralized systems process spatial information for all users, then comprehensive user profiling is achieved, but system scalability deteriorates as user numbers increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser profiling accuracyVSAvoidsystem scalability
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the centralized processing system into distributed components where each mobile device executes local rule sets independently. The classification logic is segmented and deployed to edge devices (mobile phones), allowing parallel processing across thousands of devices simultaneously, thus maintaining profiling accuracy while enabling system scalability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from a single centralized processing dimension to a multi-dimensional distributed architecture. Processing occurs across spatial dimensions (multiple locations), temporal dimensions (real-time updates), and hierarchical dimensions (device-level, network-level, and cloud-level processing), enabling both precision and scalability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Measurement precision

If more spatial and temporal data is collected from multiple locations, then user intent prediction accuracy improves, but computational resource requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser intent prediction accuracyVSAvoidcomputational processing power
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The patent pre-compiles and distributes classification rule sets to mobile devices before they are needed for processing. By preparing the computational logic in advance and storing it locally, the system enables real-time intent prediction without requiring heavy computational resources during actual data processing, thus improving accuracy while conserving processing power.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates and distributes copies of classification rules to multiple mobile devices. Instead of one device processing all data centrally, each device receives a copy of the necessary rule sets and processes its own local data independently, reducing the computational burden on any single device while maintaining high prediction accuracy through distributed processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Productivity

If rule sets are transmitted to mobile devices, then processing efficiency improves, but communication overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing efficiencyVSAvoiddata transmission volume
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transmits only the specific rule sets relevant to each mobile device's location, user profile, and context rather than sending complete rule bases to all devices. This localized approach ensures each device receives minimal necessary data for its specific processing needs, improving efficiency while minimizing communication overhead.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP3213534B1Classifying user intent based on location information electronically communicated from a mobile device
Publication Date: 2019.10.09 ORACLE INT CORP
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AI summary

A method, system, and computer program product for classifying user intent based on spatial information relayed via a mobile device. Embodiments commence upon receiving a location beacon identification value originating from a location beacon, which location beacon identification value is then relayed to the server from the mobile device. The server determines a set of one or more rules based at least in part on the location beacon identification value, and then transmits at least a portion of a set of one or more rules to the mobile device, (e.g., using a mobile device carriers infrastructure). The rules comprise triggers, and when a trigger fires, user categorization is determined and user intent is predicted. The user categorization and/or predicted user intent is used to select an advertising message.