Location-Based Social Feed Prioritization System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing social network systems do not prioritize location-based feeds effectively, leading to inefficiencies in user interaction and collaboration, as users are overwhelmed by non-geographically relevant updates.
Innovation Solution
A system that identifies the geolocation of a display device and prioritizes social network feeds based on proximity to the user's current location, ensuring that more relevant feeds are displayed first, thereby enhancing user efficiency and collaboration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If social network feeds are displayed without location-based prioritization, then users receive all feeds equally, but users are overwhelmed by non-geographically relevant updates and lose time reviewing irrelevant content
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by prioritizing feeds based on their geographic proximity to the user. Feeds from locations closer to the user are displayed with higher priority, while feeds from farther locations are lower priority. This creates a differentiated display quality based on spatial relevance, allowing users to quickly identify and engage with geographically pertinent content without wasting time on irrelevant updates.
2Productivity
If location-based prioritization is implemented, then geographically relevant feeds are displayed first, but the system complexity increases due to geolocation identification and proximity calculation
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses an intermediary approach by introducing a location service component that handles geolocation identification and proximity calculations. This intermediary module abstracts the complexity of geographic data processing from the main feed delivery system, allowing location-based prioritization to be implemented through a dedicated service layer that manages spatial computations and returns simplified priority rankings to the feed display.
3Ease of operation
If all feeds are displayed with equal priority, then the system remains simple, but users cannot efficiently identify geographically relevant content
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary action by pre-calculating and applying priority rankings to feeds based on their geographic proximity to the user before the feeds are displayed. This preliminary sorting operation occurs in advance, organizing feeds by relevance so that when users view the feed stream, geographically relevant content is already positioned at the top, eliminating the need for users to manually search or filter through irrelevant updates.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for location-based social network feeds. A system identifies a geolocation of a display device. The system identifies a first network feed and a second network feed associated with a user profile associated with the display device. The system identifies a first geolocation associated with the first network feed. The system identifies a second geolocation associated with the second network feed. The system calculates a first proximity between the first geolocation and the geolocation of the display device. The system calculates a second proximity between the second geolocation and the geolocation of the display device. The system outputs, to the display device, the first network feed based on the first proximity and the second network feed based on the second proximity.