Geo-located Content Delivery via Location-Based Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems lack the ability to effectively geo-locate and restrict access to audio, image, text, and video content to specific geographic locations or vicinities, limiting targeted advertising, emergency messaging, and information delivery to users based on their physical location.
Innovation Solution
A system and technique that allows content creators to upload geo-located content to a backend computer system, which is accessible only to users physically located at or within a predefined vicinity of the content creator's location, using GPS and filter settings to control access based on various criteria such as age, location, and content tags.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content is made universally accessible, then user reach and content distribution are improved, but location-based targeting and exclusive access control deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements location-based content delivery where content accessibility varies by geographic location. Content creators can specify target locations and radius parameters, causing the same content to be accessible to different user groups based on their physical location. This resolves the contradiction by making content universally accessible in principle while applying location-specific access control in practice.
2Productivity
If geographic location tracking is implemented, then targeted content delivery is improved, but user privacy and system complexity worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a backend server as an intermediary that handles location-based content delivery logic. The mobile device sends location information and content preferences to the server, which then filters and delivers appropriate content. This approach improves content delivery efficiency while minimizing the complexity burden on individual user devices, as the complex filtering logic resides on the server side.
3Measurement precision
If multiple filter criteria are applied, then content precision and relevance are improved, but system complexity and processing time worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements pre-filtering of content based on location criteria before applying additional filters such as age restrictions and content tags. By establishing geographic location as the primary filter criterion, the system reduces the content pool early in the process, thereby reducing the computational burden and processing time required for subsequent filtering operations. This hierarchical filtering approach maintains high content matching accuracy while minimizing processing time.
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AI summary
A system and method directed to geo-located audio, image, text and/or video content which may be characterized as content (audio, image, text, and/or video) that is accessed by one or more content consumers when such content consumers (or the associated content consumer devices) are physically located at a given geographic location and/or within a given vicinity (which may be fixed, predefined and/or programmable before or after uploading the content for access by content consumers) of the geographic location.