Geogesture Server Mediating Mobile Device Spatial Interactions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile devices lack efficient methods for geographically based interactions and transactions that leverage physical gestures to connect users with points of interest, limiting social, commerce, and security actions in a spatially-aware manner.
Innovation Solution
A method involving gesture parameters derived from physical motions detected by mobile devices, which are used to query a geogesture server to identify matching points of interest, facilitating transactions and interactions by connecting initiators with respondents through a geogesture server that processes payments and mediates interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If physical proximity is required for mobile device interactions, then direct communication between devices is simplified, but social distancing requirements and user safety are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that receives gesture data from the initiator device, identifies respondent devices based on geographic location, and facilitates the interaction. This mediator enables secure interactions without requiring physical proximity between user devices, resolving the contradiction between interaction reliability and ease of operation.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive gesture parameters are collected for precise POI identification, then interaction accuracy is improved, but device complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex gesture parameter processing and POI identification functions from the mobile device and relocates them to a server. The device only needs to capture and transmit gesture data, while the server handles the computationally intensive tasks of deriving gesture areas, querying POI databases, and identifying respondent devices, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining measurement precision.
3Speed
If real-time gesture processing and POI querying is performed on the mobile device, then response speed is improved, but energy consumption and device resource usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as a mediator that handles the energy-intensive tasks of real-time gesture processing and POI database querying. The mobile device only performs low-energy operations of capturing gesture data and communicating with the server, thereby maintaining fast interaction response times while significantly reducing device energy consumption.
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AI summary
A method of transaction processing provides for obtaining gesture parameters, deriving a gesture area from the gesture parameters, querying a point of interest (POI) database system for a matching set of POIs, wherein a POI of the matching set of POIs is a matching POI matching the gesture area when a POI location of the POI and the gesture area meet a matching requirement, providing the matching set of POIs, or information thereof, to the initiator, identifying a selected POI from among the matching set of POIs, identifying a potential respondent device of a potential respondent associated with the selected POI, determining whether the potential respondent is to proceed with a transaction with the initiator and be a respondent, wherein the respondent interacts via a respondent device, obtaining transaction details from the initiator device, the respondent device, or both, and processing the transaction.