Geographical Limiting Zone for Mobile Content Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content selection systems for user devices on the move fail to provide only relevant digital content to users, as they often present content from entities beyond the user's current location and travel direction, leading to irrelevant information being displayed.
Innovation Solution
A content selection system that determines the user device's current position and travel direction, calculates a geographical limiting zone based on time availability parameters, and filters digital content to only present information from entities within this zone, ensuring that only relevant content is displayed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If digital content from all entities is made available to the user device, then the quantity of content is increased, but the relevance of content to the user's current situation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the digital content based on the user's current situation by defining a limiting zone based on position, travel direction, and time availability. Only content from entities within this segmented zone is made available, filtering out irrelevant content while maintaining relevant information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by making different content available based on the user's specific context (position, direction, time). The content availability is not uniform but tailored to the local situation, ensuring relevance to the user's current needs and circumstances.
2Loss of information
If a geographical limiting zone is defined to filter content, then the relevance of content is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-defining the limiting zone based on the user's position, travel direction, and time availability before content is requested. This pre-established framework simplifies the content filtering process rather than adding complexity during content delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The limiting zone is dynamic and adjusts based on the user's current position, travel direction, and time availability parameters. This dynamic approach allows the system to adapt to changing user situations without requiring complex manual reconfiguration, maintaining simplicity while ensuring relevance.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a content selection system (1) for selectively enabling a user device (2) on the move to utilize digital content (41) associated with one or more entities (6) located ahead of the user device. The content selection system determines (1001) a current position (21) and a current travel direction (22) of the user device. The content selection system further derives (1002) foresight conditions input comprising one or more time availability indicating parameters. Moreover, the content selection system defines (1003) a geographical limiting zone (7, 7') extending in front of the user device, based on the position, the travel direction, and at least a first time availability indicating parameter of the foresight conditions input. The content selection system further compares (1004) the limiting zone to a first digitally stored geographical location (611) of at least a first entity (61), and enables (1005) a first piece of digital content (411) associated with the first entity to be utilized by the user device, when the first location is within the limiting zone. The disclosure also relates to a content selection system in accordance with the foregoing, and a user device comprising at least a portion of the content selection system.