Location-Based Content Notification System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing content delivery systems for mobile devices lack the ability to provide personalized content based on the device's location, leading to inefficient advertising and content recommendation strategies.

Innovation Solution

A mobile device with a location module that determines its location and compares it to stored locations associated with specific content, providing notifications to users within a predetermined range of these locations, allowing for the bookmarking and subsequent retrieval of relevant content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If content delivery systems do not use location-based personalization, then the system complexity is lower, but user engagement and advertising effectiveness are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepersonalized content deliveryVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-stores location data and content information in association with each other before the user needs content. When the user's current location matches a stored location within a predetermined range, the system automatically retrieves and delivers the associated content without requiring real-time complex processing or user input.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a location module as an intermediary component that bridges the user's physical location with content delivery. This module compares current location to stored locations and triggers content delivery only when within a predetermined range, simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling personalization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If the system provides location-based content notifications, then user engagement improves, but energy consumption increases due to continuous location monitoring

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser engagementVSAvoidenergy consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of continuous location monitoring, the system uses periodic location updates combined with stored location data. The location module compares current location to pre-stored locations only when necessary, reducing energy consumption while maintaining effective content delivery based on user presence at specific locations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS9380422B1Method for capturing and serving content based on user location

Publication Date: 2016.06.28 DIRECTV LLC

AI summary

A mobile device includes a location module that determines a location of the mobile device. A controller receives the location of the mobile device as determined by the location module, compares the location of the mobile device to a plurality of stored locations, and provides a notification to a user of the mobile device in response to a determination that the location of the mobile device is within a predetermined range of a first stored location of the plurality of stored locations. The plurality of stored locations correspond to contact devices associated with respective content, and the notification includes information about the respective content associated with a first contact device of the contact devices in the first stored location.