Geographic Ranking for Location-Based Task Performance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of client devices want to compare their task performance, such as high scores in games, across specific geographic areas, but existing systems lack a robust mechanism for generating location-based rankings.
Innovation Solution
A networked environment with a computing device and client devices that utilize a geographic rank application to collect and process task measurements, allowing users to request and generate rankings based on their geographic location, creating subsets of users or devices within specified areas to determine and display rankings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a geographic ranking system is implemented, then user engagement and competition are enhanced, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments users into geographic subsets based on location data, allowing rankings to be generated independently for each geographic area. This segmentation reduces the complexity of processing all users globally while enhancing local user engagement through relevant comparisons.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a geographic ranking system as an intermediary layer between raw task measurements and user display. This intermediary processes location data and generates geographic subsets, mediating between the complexity of global data processing and the simplicity of local user-facing rankings.
2Measurement precision
If location-based data collection is implemented, then ranking accuracy within geographic areas is improved, but data privacy concerns and security requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by processing and displaying rankings specific to each geographic area rather than globally. Location data is used to create geographically-specific subsets, improving ranking accuracy for local users while allowing the system to manage data privacy on a localized basis.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary actions by collecting and processing location data in advance to create geographic subsets and rankings. This preliminary processing allows the system to have location-based rankings ready when users request them, improving accuracy while enabling privacy controls to be applied during the initial data collection phase.
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AI summary
Disclosed are various embodiments for generating a location-based ranking for a set of measurements. Client devices located within a geographic area are identified. The geographic area is expanded when the quantity of client devices identified within the geographic area fails to meet or exceed a predefined threshold. Additional client devices are identified within the expanded geographic area. A performance ranking of task measurements associated with a performance of a task performed by the client devices within the expanded geographic area is generated.