Location-Based Digital Content Delivery via Spatial Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional digital content delivery is organized around URLs, email addresses, or telephone numbers, limiting users from accessing community-related content unless they visit specific websites, thus failing to provide content to individuals based on their physical location.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that uses mobile devices to display a user interface representing a region on earth, sending service calls with field of view data to a service layer to receive attribute data of digital content associated with that region, and positioning icons within the interface based on locale, allowing users to create and associate digital content with specific locations for others to discover.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital content is delivered to specific URLs or email addresses, then content can be organized and accessed through centralized platforms, but users cannot encounter content based on their physical location
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a spatial/geographic dimension to content delivery by associating digital content with physical locations (latitude, longitude, altitude). Instead of delivering content only through traditional digital addresses (URLs, email), the system enables content to be delivered based on the user's physical position in space, creating a new dimension for content accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a location-based messaging system as an intermediary between users and digital content. This intermediary layer processes geographic coordinates and delivers relevant content based on position, acting as a mediator that bridges the gap between physical location and digital content delivery without requiring users to visit specific websites.
2Device complexity
If community content is nucleated around websites, then content can be centralized and managed, but discussions are not nucleated around physical locations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making content delivery context-specific to geographic locations. Different locations have different associated contents, and the system tailors content delivery to the local geographic context rather than using a universal centralized approach. This preserves contextual relevance by delivering content that is locally appropriate to the user's position.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions content organization from a purely virtual/digital dimension (websites, URLs) to include a physical/spatial dimension (geographic locations). This allows discussions and content to be nucleated around real-world places while maintaining the benefits of digital organization and management.
3Productivity
If users must visit specific websites to access content, then content can be delivered to a universal address, but users will not encounter content if they do not visit the website
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables the system to automatically deliver content based on the user's location without requiring the user to actively seek out or visit specific websites. The location-based messaging system monitors user position and proactively delivers relevant content, making the content discovery process self-service rather than requiring user initiative to visit centralized platforms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent inverts the traditional content delivery model by instead of users going to content (visiting websites), content comes to users (delivered based on location). This reversal eliminates the need for users to navigate to specific websites, as content is pushed to them based on their physical position.
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AI summary
Herein is disclosed a positional content platform and related systems and methods. According to some embodiments, the platform includes a mobile processing and communication device and a service layer executing on a server. The mobile processing and communication device communicates with the service layer. By virtue of the communication, a user of the mobile device is able to locate and view digital content that has been created and stored on the platform. The aforementioned content is associated with a geographic location, and, according to some embodiments, the content is represented in a user interface by an icon that is superimposed over a field of view representative of a geographic region.