Location-Aware Message Reminders Using User Association Levels
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing location-based services (LBS) fail to consider user intimacy levels when reminding users of potential encounters, leading to inefficient resource usage and poor user experience.
Innovation Solution
A message reminding method that sets association levels between terminals based on user intimacy, determines distances using current location information, and sends reminders only when the preset condition is met, prioritizing contacts with higher intimacy levels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If location-based services send reminders to all users based on distance alone, then the system is simple to implement, but user experience deteriorates due to irrelevant notifications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating reminder priorities based on the specific relationship between users. Instead of treating all users uniformly, the system assigns different association levels (family, friend, acquaintance) to different target terminals, creating localized quality variations in the reminder service that match user needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of user association by introducing association levels as a new dimension. The system transitions from a single-parameter distance-based reminder to a multi-parameter system that incorporates association level, thereby transforming the reminder mechanism from generic to personalized.
2Reliability
If the system monitors and sends reminders for all target terminals continuously, then reminder completeness is improved, but resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by selectively monitoring and sending reminders only for target terminals that meet the preset conditions (association level and distance thresholds). Instead of continuously monitoring all users, the system performs partial monitoring focused on high-priority targets, reducing resource consumption while maintaining essential reminder functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the user base into different association levels (family, friend, acquaintance) and applies different monitoring strategies to each segment. This segmentation allows the system to allocate resources efficiently by focusing intensive monitoring on high-priority segments while using lighter monitoring for lower-priority segments.
3Reliability
If the system sends reminders for all contacts regardless of relationship closeness, then no important encounters are missed, but notification relevance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by tailoring the reminder notification characteristics to the specific association level. Different association levels receive different types of notifications, ensuring that the information provided is relevant to the user's relationship with the target terminal. This prevents information overload while maintaining detection accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses partial action by sending reminders selectively based on preset conditions rather than universally. The system determines whether to send a reminder by evaluating both distance and association level against predefined thresholds, performing the reminder action only when conditions are met, thus avoiding irrelevant notifications while catching important encounters.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a message reminding method, an apparatus, a control device and a storage medium, in which an association level between a terminal and each target terminal is set; current location information of the terminal and each target terminal is obtained; determining of whether a distance between the terminal and each target terminal meets a preset condition corresponding to the association level or not is performed respectively according to the current location information of the terminal and each target terminal; if yes, a message is sent to remind the terminal that there is a target terminal that meets the preset condition. That is, in examples of the present invention, by first setting the association level between the terminal and each target terminal, and then determining whether each target terminal meets the preset condition corresponding to the association level or not, a determination of whether to send a message reminder according to user needs is realized, facilitating the communication between a user and other people, and improving the user experience.