Location-Based Digital Content Persistence via Coordinate Linking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies face challenges in providing automatic and efficient access to relevant information specific to a designated physical area, especially when the user is unsure of what information is available or how to query for it.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves linking location coordinates with digital content using an Agent interface, which combines geospatial position-based digital content with augmented reality, enabling users to interact with location-specific information through a Smart Device by aligning real-world and virtual content. This is achieved through wireless communication with reference point transceivers, determining positional coordinates, and generating an interactive user interface that includes digital content associated with tags within a specified area.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional centralized server information retrieval is used, then information can be stored and accessed, but users must know what to ask for and how to query, making it difficult to automatically receive information pertinent to a designated area
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automatic information delivery by having the system itself identify and push relevant location-based digital content to users without requiring manual queries. The smart device automatically detects its position relative to reference points and retrieves associated content, making the information retrieval process self-service and eliminating the need for users to know what to ask for.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses location coordinates as feedback to dynamically determine which digital content to present. The smart device continuously monitors its position and automatically retrieves and updates content based on its current location relative to reference points, creating a closed-loop feedback system that ensures users receive relevant information without manual intervention.
2Productivity
If location-based digital content access is implemented, then automatic information delivery is enabled, but security risks increase requiring multifactor authentication
Solution Approach 1:
The security system is segmented into multiple independent authentication factors: location verification (comparing current coordinates with authorized coordinates), device identification, and user credentials. Each factor operates independently but contributes to the overall authentication decision, allowing the system to maintain high security while enabling efficient access for authorized users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary location verification and authentication checks before granting access to digital content. By pre-establishing authorized location coordinates and performing authentication in advance, the system enables efficient content delivery once access is granted, while maintaining robust security through upfront verification.
3Stability of the object's composition
If persistent digital content is linked to physical locations, then content remains associated with location even if visual aspects change, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a virtual copy of the physical location through reference points with associated digital content. Instead of relying on visual recognition of physical objects, the system uses coordinate-based reference points that serve as persistent digital representations of physical locations. This copying approach allows content to remain associated with locations even when visual aspects change, as the coordinate system remains stable.
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AI summary
Augmented reality apparatus and methods of use are provided with secure persistent digital content linked to a location coordinates. More specifically, the present invention links a physical location with digital content to enable a user interface with augmented reality that combines aspects of the physical area with location specific digital content. According the present invention, digital content remains persistent with a location even if visual aspects of the location change. Access to the digital content constrained to Agents physically located in an area of digital content interaction based upon location coordinates of the Agent.