Location-Based Security for Communication Sessions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional chat sessions lack contextual relevancy and rich multi-party interactivity, failing to incorporate location-based context which is inherent in real-world conversations.
Innovation Solution
The association of electronic communication sessions with virtual locations, allowing for context-aware interactions and secured access through access rules, media indications, and promotional content based on the selected virtual location, which can represent real-world or virtual-world locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional chat sessions are used, then simplicity and ease of operation are maintained, but contextual relevancy and location-based context are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a location service server as an intermediary between communication devices and location data. This server mediates the association between communication sessions and virtual locations, providing contextual information without requiring complex client-side implementation. The intermediary handles the complexity of location tracking, session management, and context provision centrally, maintaining simplicity at the user level while enriching contextual information.
2Reliability
If virtual locations are associated with communication sessions, then contextual relevance is improved, but access security and control complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements access control by changing parameters such as virtual location coordinates, accuracy thresholds, and time-based validity. Instead of complex permission systems, the patent uses parameter validation (e.g., checking if a device's reported location matches the session's virtual location within acceptable accuracy) to secure access. This approach provides robust security while maintaining relatively simple control mechanisms.
3Adaptability or versatility
If location-based context is incorporated, then user experience and interactivity are enhanced, but data processing and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The location service server performs multiple functions: it associates virtual locations with communication sessions, provides location verification for access control, delivers contextual information to enhance interactivity, and manages promotional content delivery. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single multi-functional server, the patent enhances adaptability and versatility while avoiding the need for multiple separate complex systems.
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AI summary
Aspects of the disclosure provide security to electronic communication sessions, and/or context-aware transactions based at least on the association of such sessions with respective locations in a virtual environment representative of a geographic region. The geographic region can comprise real-world locations or virtual-world locations. Various strengths of secured access to a communication session can be provided based on accuracy criteria between a prior configured location and a location supplied to request access.