Geofence-Based Event Content Sharing System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current solutions fail to securely and efficiently share content among private groups of people attending an event, especially when participants are on the move, as they lack an integrated way to determine each other's location, leading to difficulties for late arrivals or event coordinators in tracking attendees.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses geofencing technology to determine an event definition, generate an event geofence, and share content between invitees within the geofenced area, allowing for dynamic updates and sub-geofences based on attendee movement, ensuring secure and timely content access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If geofencing is used to verify attendee locations for secure content sharing, then content sharing security is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that manages geofence definitions, stores attendee information, and handles content sharing logic. This centralizes complexity on the server side while keeping client devices relatively simple, only requiring location access and basic app functionality. The server mediates between location data and content sharing decisions, resolving the contradiction by externalizing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments functionality between client devices and server infrastructure. Client devices handle location tracking and basic interface interactions, while the server handles geofence management, attendee verification, and content distribution. This segmentation allows complex security and coordination logic to reside on the server without burdening individual client devices, thereby improving security while managing system complexity.
2Ease of operation
If real-time location tracking is implemented for all attendees, then event coordination capability is improved, but privacy concerns increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements location tracking with local quality by creating geofences that define specific geographic boundaries for events. Instead of continuous tracking of all attendee movements, the system only monitors when attendees enter or exit defined event geofences. This localized approach provides sufficient coordination capability (knowing who is at the event) while minimizing privacy intrusion (not tracking every movement), thereby resolving the contradiction between coordination capability and privacy concerns.
3Measurement precision
If geofence boundaries are made dynamic to follow attendee movement, then content sharing accuracy is improved, but computational requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic geofences that can adjust their boundaries based on attendee movement patterns. When a significant number of attendees congregate at a new location, the geofence dynamically expands or shifts to include that area. This dynamic behavior improves content sharing accuracy by ensuring all relevant attendees are included, while the server-based implementation manages computational requirements centrally rather than on individual devices.
Data Source
AI summary
Various embodiments for event-based information sharing are disclosed. In one example embodiment, an event definition describing an event is determined. An event geofence associated with a location of the event is generated and content is shared between invitees attending the event and located within an area of the event geofence.