Hangout Mediator for Location-Based User Connections
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing social media platforms lack a centralized focus on physical locations or hangouts, making it difficult for users to form connections based on shared interests or affiliations with a specific venue, leading to awkward encounters when meeting in person.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilizes a processor and memory to facilitate connections between users and hangouts by presenting hangout details, forming relationships, and mediating communication sessions based on shared affiliations with a common physical location, allowing users to connect with others who frequent the same hangout.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional social media platforms are used, then users can access various social features, but users cannot form connections based on shared physical locations or hangouts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a hangout as an intermediary entity that connects users through shared physical locations. The hangout serves as a mediator between users, allowing them to form connections based on common physical spaces without requiring direct user-to-user location data exchange. This resolves the contradiction by adding a new layer (hangout) that enables location-based connections while preserving user privacy.
2Ease of operation
If users meet in person without a centralized hangout system, then face-to-face interactions can occur, but encounters become awkward without shared context
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by establishing hangout entities and user-hangout relationships before in-person meetings occur. Users can view follower presence data and hangout details in advance, allowing them to prepare for interactions with shared context information. This eliminates the awkwardness of unprepared encounters while maintaining the spontaneity of in-person meetings.
3Productivity
If follower presence data is always displayed, then users can see who is available, but user privacy is compromised before relationship establishment
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically controls the visibility of follower presence data based on the user's relationship status with the hangout. Initially, presence data is hidden to protect privacy; once a user establishes a relationship with the hangout, the data becomes visible to enable efficient connections. This dynamic adjustment resolves the contradiction between connection efficiency and privacy protection.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus for setting an orientation mode includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to help users connect via a common hangout. In various examples, the code causes the processor to receive a hangout details request from a user over a network. In various examples, the code causes the processor to present hangout details about a hangout to the user. In various examples, the code causes the processor to create a relationship between the user and the hangout in response to a user selecting the hangout. In various examples, the code causes the processor to present follower data to the user, the follower data relating to one or more followers associated with the hangout.