Centralized Location Data Harmonization System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems fail to effectively manage location information for businesses with multiple activities at the same physical location, leading to inconsistencies and inefficiencies in data collection, storage, and retrieval, as different entities describe the same location differently, resulting in confusion and inaccuracies.
Innovation Solution
A method for harmonizing location data by converting it into latitude-longitude coordinates and assigning a unified identifier, allowing for centralized management and distribution of location-specific information, enabling efficient customer access and visualization on maps, and attaching relevant attributes to the data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If different entities collect and manage location information separately for their own business purposes, then each entity can maintain its own data standards and formats, but the same physical location will be described differently leading to data inconsistency and confusion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized location information management system that acts as an intermediary between multiple businesses and the location data they need. This central hub receives location information from various entities, harmonizes it into a standardized format, and distributes it back to users. The intermediary resolves the contradiction by allowing flexible data collection from multiple sources while ensuring consistent, accurate location descriptions through centralization and standardization.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized location information management system serves multiple businesses and purposes simultaneously through a single unified platform. It handles location data for restaurants, retail stores, service providers, and other entities all through one system that maintains consistent location standards while supporting diverse business needs, thus achieving both versatility and precision.
2Quantity of substance
If location information is collected from multiple sources with different formats and expressions, then comprehensive coverage is achieved, but data harmonization and consistency become difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized management system serves as an intermediary that receives diverse location data from multiple sources in various formats, processes and harmonizes it into a standardized structure, and distributes the cleaned data back to users. This intermediary approach enables comprehensive data collection while managing harmonization complexity through centralization and automated standardization processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms location data by changing its parameters - converting different address formats, coordinate systems, and naming conventions into a unified standard format. This parameter transformation approach allows the system to maintain comprehensive data coverage while reducing harmonization complexity through automated format conversion and standardization.
3Loss of information
If each business maintains separate location records for its activities, then business-specific information can be preserved, but location data duplication and retrieval inefficiency occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges location information from multiple businesses into a single centralized database while preserving business-specific attributes as associated metadata. Instead of maintaining separate location records for each entity, the system consolidates location data into one authoritative source that can be efficiently queried and retrieved, eliminating duplication while retaining all business-relevant information through structured data relationships.
4Adaptability or versatility
If location data is stored in multiple formats to accommodate different business needs, then versatility is improved, but data consistency and accuracy deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized location information management system acts as an intermediary that receives location data in various formats from different businesses, converts and standardizes it into a unified accurate format, and distributes it back to users. This intermediary process maintains versatility in data collection while ensuring consistency and accuracy through centralized standardization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies parameter changes by transforming diverse location data formats into a standardized structure, converting different address representations, coordinate systems, and naming conventions into a unified format that maintains both the versatility of accommodating multiple input formats and the precision of consistent output data.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of managing product-location specific information is provided. Product-location specific information is collected from multiple users at a centralized network hub and transformed into location-harmonized data with one or more attached attributes including product data. The location-harmonized product-location specific data and/or content derived therefrom is distributed, and/or other content is distributed based on the location-harmonized product-location specific data and/or on the location harmonized data, to the same or different users. One or more efficient customer access methods is/are also provided.