Dynamic Route Guidance for Mobile Terminals
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing route planning systems require users to know the target location's address, making it difficult to find someone's location or meet at an unknown place, especially in unfamiliar areas, as they cannot adapt to changes in the user's route.
Innovation Solution
A method that uses mobile terminals to determine the local positions of both users in a communication network, allowing for dynamic route planning without requiring the target location's address, using GPS, network-based localization, and Indoor Positioning Systems to provide route information directly to the users, enabling them to meet efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional route planning systems are used, then route information can be provided from a known address to a target address, but the system cannot adapt when the user deviates from the described route and requires the target location to be known in advance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms static route planning into dynamic route planning by continuously updating the user's current position through GPS and recalculating directions based on actual location changes. The system adapts the route description in real-time according to the user's deviation from the planned path, making the navigation system flexible and responsive to changing conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the system continuously monitors the user's current position via GPS, compares it with the planned route, and provides feedback through updated directional instructions. This closed-loop control enables the system to detect deviations and automatically adjust the route guidance, maintaining adaptability without requiring complex manual intervention.
2Adaptability or versatility
If GPS and continuous position tracking are implemented, then dynamic route adaptation is achieved, but energy consumption and device resource usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs periodic position updates rather than continuous tracking, where the GPS receiver determines the current position at defined time intervals. This periodic approach maintains the ability to detect route deviations and adapt directions while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous real-time tracking, optimizing the balance between adaptability and power usage.
3Loss of information
If the system provides detailed static route descriptions, then comprehensive navigation information is available, but the information cannot be adapted if the user changes location
Solution Approach 1:
The patent converts static route descriptions into dynamic, adaptive guidance by continuously updating the current position and recalculating directions based on actual location changes. The route information remains accurate and comprehensive while adapting to user deviations, ensuring both information quality and flexibility are maintained simultaneously.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to find each other without knowing the other's exact location, adapting to changes in the route, and providing route information in various formats, such as text, voice, or graphical instructions, facilitating meetings in unfamiliar areas with minimal effort.
Implementation Method 1
the actual local position and thus also the start address is mostly determined using the GPS technology (GPS: Global Positioning System)
Implementation Method 2
network based localisation techniques, wherein the local position of the mobile terminal is determined in a radio cell and is aligned with a geographical location corresponding to the radio cell
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a method for providing information (2) that can be used by means of a mobile terminal to be operated in a communication network (1), wherein the information comprises data how one can get from a first place (X) to a second place (Y) or from a second place (Y) to a first place (X), wherein the first place (X) is defined by the local position of a mobile terminal (X') to be operated in the communication network (1) and belonging to a first communication network user (X") and the second place (Y) is defined by the local position of a mobile terminal (Y') to be operated in the communication network (1) and belonging to a second communication network user (Y"), which is characterized in that in the method at least one local information (X''') with respect to the first place (X) and at least one local information (Y''') with respect to the second place (Y) are determined, the determined local information (X''' and Y''') are sent to at least one information processing unit (6), the provided local information (X''' and Y''') are processed by the at least one information processing unit (6) for generating information (2) to be provided dependent on individual and/or predefined conditions of the first and/or second communication network user (5, 5'), the first place (X), the second place (Y) and/or conditions that are specific for the local position, and the generated information is provided for being used by a mobile terminal. The subject of the invention is furthermore a mobile terminal to be used in a communication network (1), preferably a mobile network (1), which is characterized in that the mobile terminal is designed and/or adapted for at least partially carrying out a method according to the invention.