Geo-fenced Content Access via Spatial-Temporal Scheduling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current content management systems lack efficient mechanisms to manage content based on spatial and temporal information, leading to unnecessary resource consumption and poor management of personnel resources, as they fail to effectively tailor content delivery to user activities and locations.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize spatial and temporal information to provide content management by receiving a client device's location and user identifier, parsing schedule data to identify tasks and geo-fenced areas, verifying user identity, and enabling access to designated content only when the user is within the assigned geo-fenced area during the designated time-period.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cloud based content providers automatically track user activities, then content management can be tailored to user activities, but personnel resources are unnecessarily consumed and management efficiency is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated content management where the cloud-based content provider autonomously tracks user activities, determines relevant content, and delivers it without requiring personnel intervention. The system self-manages the entire process from activity tracking to content delivery, eliminating the need for manual personnel resources while maintaining adaptive content management.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes content associations with user activities and locations. By predetermined rules and relationships between activities and content, the system can automatically determine and deliver relevant content based on tracked user activities, eliminating the need for manual content selection and improving management efficiency.
2Ease of operation
If content is delivered without spatial and temporal verification, then access is simplified, but resource consumption increases and content security is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-determines geo-fenced areas and time periods associated with user activities before content delivery. By establishing these spatial and temporal parameters in advance based on user schedules and locations, the system can efficiently verify content access conditions without complex real-time computations, reducing resource consumption while maintaining security.
3Reliability
If manual verification of user identity and location is performed, then content security is improved, but processor load and network bandwidth usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses location data from the user's mobile device as a copy or representation of the user's physical position, eliminating the need for complex verification mechanisms. The device's built-in location capabilities provide reliable spatial verification without requiring additional processor load or network bandwidth for manual verification.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for providing content management based on spatial and temporal information are disclosed herein. In an example, a service provides content management based on properties determined from a schedule of a user. The schedule of the user is processed to identify a geo-fenced area assigned for performing a task. Upon determining that the location of the client device as within the geo-fenced area, content identified by the task may be accessed through the client to perform the task.