Participatory Event Notification System Using Customizable Search Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Participants in participatory sporting events face difficulties in finding and registering for events that match their criteria due to the need to search multiple websites and the lack of standardized search criteria across different event organizers, leading to missed opportunities as events become sold out.
Innovation Solution
A method that allows users to input customizable search parameters for sporting events, including location, type, and date, which are then used to generate alerts on their devices with relevant search results, enabling simultaneous searches across multiple event organizers and notifications for new events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If participants search multiple individual websites continuously for event updates, then they can find new events matching their criteria, but they must spend significant time and effort checking multiple websites repeatedly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary alert system that mediates between event organizers and participants. The system automatically monitors multiple event websites and sends notifications to participants when new events matching their criteria are available, eliminating the need for participants to continuously check multiple websites themselves.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring search criteria and automatically monitoring events before participants need to search. Participants set up their preferences in advance, and the system proactively searches and alerts them about matching events, reversing the traditional reactive search model.
2Adaptability or versatility
If event organizers use their own particular search criteria, then they can accurately describe their events, but participants cannot search multiple organizers' events using a single standardized search interface
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal search system that can search across multiple event organizers' databases using a single standardized interface. The system translates standardized participant search criteria into each organizer's specific criteria format, allowing one search tool to access diverse event databases with different structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes search parameters by translating standardized search criteria into organizer-specific parameters. When a participant searches using general criteria, the system automatically adapts these parameters to match each organizer's specific data structure and search requirements, enabling seamless cross-organizer searching.
3Reliability
If participants manually check multiple websites for event updates, then they can find available events, but events may become sold out between checks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuous monitoring of event availability through automated alert systems. Instead of intermittent manual checks, the system continuously watches for new events and registration opportunities, ensuring participants are notified immediately when events become available, maintaining constant connection to event data without requiring continuous participant action.
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AI summary
A method for promulgating and searching a database of participatory events and providing search result alerts to users. Event organizers enter events into the system using various searchable criteria. A user may search the database or setup a customized search request that the system returns to the user as alerts at predetermined times or as new events are entered into the database. The system tags events stored in the database to facilitate the provision of user alerts based upon preselected user-determined criteria.