Geoshortcut System Standardizing Location Sharing Across Applications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for sharing location information are often imprecise, lengthy, or difficult to remember, and lack a standardized, application-agnostic approach that allows for easy communication across different devices and applications.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing geoshortcuts, where a user-defined name corresponds to a precise location, stored and managed by a cloud server, allowing conversion into a universal format for easy sharing and retrieval across various applications and devices, with support for dynamic locations and expiration data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If proprietary location formats are used by different applications and devices, then each application can represent location in its own format, but compatibility and ease of sharing across different applications and devices deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a standardized location format as an intermediary layer between different applications and devices. This standard format acts as a mediator that translates proprietary location representations into a universal language, enabling seamless sharing and compatibility across the ecosystem without requiring each application to implement every other application's specific format.
Solution Approach 2:
The standardized location format serves multiple functions simultaneously: it represents locations for navigation applications, shares locations between different devices, stores location data in databases, and communicates location information across networks. This universal format eliminates the need for multiple proprietary formats while maintaining the functionality required by various applications.
2Loss of information
If lengthy location formats such as postal addresses are used, then location information can be comprehensive, but ease of remembering and quick communication deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments location information into different levels of precision and granularity. Instead of always using comprehensive postal addresses, the system can use abbreviated formats, coordinates, or standardized codes depending on the context. This segmentation allows users to communicate location efficiently while maintaining completeness only when necessary.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes the format parameters of location information based on the communication context. For example, it can switch between detailed addresses and simplified coordinates, or between standardized formats and human-readable names. This parameter adaptation optimizes both information completeness and communication speed for different use cases.
3Ease of operation
If standardized location formats are implemented, then ease of sharing and compatibility improve, but flexibility to accommodate application-specific needs deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The standardized location format is designed to be dynamic rather than static. It can adapt its structure and representation based on the receiving application's requirements. The standard provides a flexible framework that can accommodate different precision levels, coordinate systems, and data formats while maintaining compatibility, allowing the system to shift between standardization and customization as needed.
4Measurement precision
If precise location data is stored indefinitely, then location accuracy is maintained, but data validity and freshness deteriorate due to dynamically-changeable locations
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates expiration timestamps as a preliminary measure to alert users and applications before location data becomes stale. By setting and communicating validity periods in advance, the system prepares for potential data obsolescence and enables proactive updates or refreshes before accuracy deteriorates, maintaining reliability without requiring indefinite storage.
Data Source
AI summary
An indication of a physical location specified as a name of a geoshortcut is received. The name is identified as corresponds to the geoshortcut according to a format of the name matching a format of geoshortcut name identifiers. The name is sent, to a cloud server maintaining a geoshortcut service, in a request for geoshortcut information regarding the geoshortcut. The geoshortcut information regarding the geoshortcut is received from the cloud server responsive to the request, the geoshortcut information including data identifying the physical location in a native format as received, data identifying the physical location in a predefined location format available across geoshortcuts, and expiration data indicative of for how long the data identifying the physical location is deemed valid. The geoshortcut information is utilized to determine the physical location referenced by the name of the geoshortcut.