Geocoded Web Content Delivery via Dynamic Radius Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional online news information websites only provide news content related to a user's specified geographic area at a high level, such as a city, and are unable to deliver web content specific to a specific geographic location like an address or neighborhood.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that associates a user-specified geographic location with a centroid, dynamically adjusting the surrounding area to provide relevant web content within a specified distance, such as 1000 feet, allowing users to access news, events, or stories specific to their location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional online news websites provide news information at a national or city level, then users can access broad news coverage, but users cannot locate news information specific to their exact geographic location such as an address or neighborhood
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the geographic coverage hierarchy into multiple levels: neighborhood level (most precise), city level (intermediate), and state level (broadest). This segmentation allows the system to provide highly localized news content when available while falling back to broader coverage areas, thus achieving both high measurement precision and adaptability in news content delivery
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the geographic scope of news content based on the user's specified location and the availability of localized content. The search radius and geographic boundaries are not fixed but adapt according to the precision of the input location and the distribution of available news articles, enabling the system to balance between location-specific relevance and comprehensive news coverage
2Loss of information
If conventional online news websites use keyword-based search, then users can find articles containing specific terms, but users cannot efficiently locate news information relevant to their specific geographic area
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces geographic metadata and location-based indexing as an intermediary between the user's location input and the news article database. Instead of relying solely on keyword matching, the system uses geographic coordinates, address data, and location hierarchies as a mediating layer to filter and rank news articles by their relevance to the user's specific location, thereby reducing information loss while maintaining search simplicity
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the search parameters from purely text-based keyword matching to a multi-parameter approach that includes geographic coordinates, distance calculations, and location hierarchy matching. This parameter transformation enables the system to efficiently retrieve geographically relevant news articles without complicating the user's search operation, as the user simply inputs their location and the system handles the complex parameter matching automatically
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AI summary
A system and method are disclosed for providing geocoded web content to a user based on a specific geographic location specified by the user. A determination module receives a geographic location from the user and determines latitude and longitude coordinates associated with the geographic location from a geographic information database. The determination module further determines a geographic boundary associated with the latitude and longitude coordinates based at least in part on an area of interest surrounding the geographic location. A web content search module determines web content comprising substance associated with a location within the geographic boundary. A front end interface transmits the determined web content for display in an order based at least in part on distance from the location associated with the web content to the geographic location.