Geo-Boundary Triggered Messaging System for Privacy-Safe Location Services
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current location-based services face challenges in ensuring user privacy, particularly in determining and managing location data access, with a lack of standardized authorization models and regulatory compliance for emergency services.
Innovation Solution
A system that detects when a mobile user crosses a predefined geo-boundary and sends messages based on both location and time criteria, using existing infrastructure to provide targeted digital media content, with confirmation mechanisms for accurate billing and accounting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If location data is continuously monitored and accessed by external entities, then service functionality and message delivery accuracy are improved, but user privacy and security are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-defines geo-boundaries and associates messages with these boundaries before the mobile device arrives. The message content and delivery conditions are prepared in advance, but the actual message is only activated and delivered when the device crosses the predefined boundary, thus preparing services beforehand without continuous location monitoring.
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts location monitoring from continuous operation and transforms it into event-triggered operation. Instead of continuously tracking and accessing location data, the system only processes location information when the mobile device crosses a predefined geo-boundary, thereby extracting the essential function while minimizing privacy intrusion.
2Adaptability or versatility
If geo-boundary crossing detection is implemented, then targeted message delivery is enabled, but system complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses existing location services infrastructure and mobile device location capabilities to perform geo-boundary detection. By leveraging universal, already-deployed location services rather than building a dedicated detection system, the patent achieves targeted message delivery without proportionally increasing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a message server as an intermediary that manages the correlation between geo-boundaries and messages. This intermediary handles the complexity of boundary detection and message activation centrally, rather than requiring complex logic in each mobile device or network element.
3Loss of information
If messages are sent based on real-time location triggers, then message relevance and user engagement are improved, but network traffic and service overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
Messages are prepared and associated with geo-boundaries in advance, but the actual message transmission is triggered only when the mobile device crosses the boundary. This preliminary preparation without immediate transmission reduces unnecessary network traffic while ensuring message relevance when delivered.
Solution Approach 2:
The system checks for geo-boundary crossings at periodic intervals rather than continuously monitoring location. The mobile device reports its location periodically or on-demand, and the message server checks whether the device has crossed any predefined boundaries, reducing network overhead while maintaining message relevance.
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AI summary
A location based system is provided is configured to provide messages to a recipient based on time and location based information. The a method includes detecting when a mobile user has crossed within a predefined geo-boundary. The method further includes sending a message to the mobile user when the mobile user has crossed within the predefined geo-boundary during a predetermined time period set by an originator of the message.