Geospatial Virtual Environment Management for Mobile Content

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing content delivery platforms fail to provide location-specific and customizable interactive content to mobile devices, lacking geospatial awareness and user-defined features that enhance relevance and engagement.

Innovation Solution

A virtual environment management system that allows users to create and customize geospatially-aware virtual environments through a dashboard, enabling exposure of location-specific data content via mobile applications, using geospatial services, widget services, and data services to integrate and visualize data, and provide interactive interfaces for end-users.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If existing content delivery platforms use tracking cookies and profiles to target information content, then content delivery capability is improved, but location-specific customization capability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery capabilityVSAvoidlocation-specific customization capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments content delivery by dividing the target audience into location-based groups using geofenced areas. Each geofenced area can have customized content, widgets, and data delivered to users within that specific geographic boundary, enabling location-specific customization while maintaining overall content delivery efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces geofenced areas as an intermediary layer between the content delivery platform and users. This intermediary enables location-based targeting by acting as a spatial filter that determines which customized content and widgets are delivered to which users based on their geographic location, rather than relying solely on tracking cookies and profiles.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If content delivery platforms provide general content to recipients, then content delivery efficiency is improved, but user engagement and relevance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery efficiencyVSAvoiduser engagement and relevance
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by delivering different customized content, widgets, and data to users based on their specific geographic location within geofenced areas. Each location can have uniquely tailored content that is relevant to local context, thereby improving user engagement and relevance without sacrificing overall delivery efficiency through automated geolocation-based routing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Adaptability or versatility

If platforms use tracking cookies and profiles for content targeting, then content personalization is improved, but geospatial awareness capability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent personalizationVSAvoidgeospatial awareness capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges content personalization with geospatial awareness by combining tracking cookies and profiles with geofenced area technology. This integration allows the system to deliver personalized content that is specifically tailored to both the user's historical behavior data and their current geographic location, thereby enhancing both personalization and geospatial awareness capabilities simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10063996B2Methods and systems for providing geospatially-aware user-customizable virtual environments
Publication Date: 2018.08.28 THERMOPYLAE SCI & TECH
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AI summary

Methods and systems are provided for generating and delivering data content to a mobile device using geospatially-aware virtual environments. A virtual environment management system generates a virtual environment based on a hybrid application having one or more functionality associated with an activation condition, and provides the virtual environment to the mobile device. The virtual environment management system then determines that a location of the mobile device satisfies the activation condition, and activates the one or more functionality for the virtual environment.