Geo-Hash Based Reward System for User Movement Paths
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Solution Overview
Problem
Location-based services are limited in utilizing user activity information beyond current location, failing to effectively provide comprehensive services that stimulate and reward user activities such as exercise and movement.
Innovation Solution
A service method and system that utilizes Geo-Hash coordinates to measure and record user activities, including movement paths and exercise amounts, to determine user rankings and issue digital content as rewards, by converting location information and path data into Geo-Hash coordinates for matching with predetermined paths and allocating corresponding digital content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If location-based services use only current location information, then the service system is simple to implement, but user activity information cannot be fully utilized
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the user's movement path into discrete Geo-Hash coordinate points. By dividing the continuous movement trajectory into discrete location segments represented by Geo-Hash codes, the system can analyze and utilize path information without requiring complex continuous trajectory processing, thus enabling comprehensive activity utilization while maintaining manageable system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces Geo-Hash coordinates as an intermediary representation between raw GPS location data and service logic. This intermediary encoding system simplifies the comparison and matching of location information with predetermined paths, enabling efficient activity recognition without direct complex geometric calculations
2Loss of information
If the system tracks detailed movement paths to provide comprehensive services, then user activity information can be fully utilized, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a simplified digital copy of the user's movement path using Geo-Hash coordinates instead of storing and processing detailed continuous GPS trajectory data. This copy retains the essential path information needed for activity recognition while significantly reducing data volume and processing requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms location information from continuous latitude/longitude coordinates to discrete Geo-Hash coded segments. This parameter transformation converts complex continuous spatial data into manageable discrete units, enabling efficient path matching and activity recognition with reduced computational complexity
3Productivity
If the system provides rewards based on path matching, then user motivation and activity stimulation increase, but measurement precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements path matching that allows for partial matching rather than requiring exact complete path correspondence. The system can recognize activities when a sufficient portion of the predetermined path is matched, providing flexibility that maintains user motivation while accommodating natural variations in real-world movement patterns
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AI summary
Disclosed are a system and a service method for providing a digital content based on a moving path of a user. A service method may include storing and managing data in which coordinates of a map are converted to Geo-Hash coordinates according to a Geo-Hash algorithm, receiving location information from a terminal of a user, converting the location information to the Geo-Hash coordinates, and providing, to the terminal, information about digital content allocated to a Geo-Hash area including adjacent Geo-Hash coordinates based on the Geo-Hash coordinates. The terminal may be configured to determine the digital content to be provided to the terminal based on information about the digital content allocated to the Geo-Hash area and new location information of the terminal.