Location Mapping for Remote Worker Collaboration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Remote workers within the same organization often lack effective methods to collaborate or socialize in person, as they cannot easily identify and connect with coworkers in geographic proximity at public venues.
Innovation Solution
A collaboration management system that uses location mapping to identify and connect users sharing common attributes by sending digital invitations to users within a specified radius of a selected venue, facilitating in-person meetings and collaborations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If employees work remotely from home offices, then work flexibility and comfort are improved, but in-person collaboration opportunities and organizational culture engagement deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a collaboration management system as an intermediary that bridges remote workers and physical venues. The system matches employees with nearby venues and facilitates connections with other employees in the same geographic area, enabling in-person collaboration without requiring traditional office attendance. This mediator platform resolves the contradiction by providing structured opportunities for face-to-face interaction while preserving remote work flexibility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If employees travel to remote offices, then access to additional resources and teams is improved, but difficulty in identifying and meeting coworkers working remotely from those offices deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms that provide real-time information about other employees' locations and availability. When an employee visits a remote office, the system feedbacks information about nearby coworkers, their work status, and their availability for collaboration. This feedback loop resolves the information asymmetry problem, making it easy to identify and connect with coworkers even when they are working remotely from the visited office.
3Device complexity
If no location mapping system is implemented, then system complexity is reduced, but ability to facilitate spontaneous in-person meetings and collaborations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a multi-functional collaboration management system that combines location mapping, venue management, employee profiling, and communication facilitation into a single universal platform. This universal system handles multiple functions (identifying employees, matching with venues, facilitating connections, and tracking collaborations) through integrated processes. The multi-functionality approach resolves the contradiction by consolidating complexity into a cohesive system that enables spontaneous collaboration without requiring multiple separate tools or manual coordination.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and collaboration management devices are disclosed that identify a venue and registered users within a first radius of a venue geolocation of the venue. The venue satisfies venue parameters received from a client device and the venue geolocation is within a second radius of a user geolocation of an authenticated user. Social data for the venue generated from user data for the registered users is output to the client device. Digital invitations are sent to client devices associated with the registered users. A notification is output to the client device that includes user data for a subset of the registered users from which a positive response to the digital invitations was received. Visit data for the venue is updated to reflect a visit to the venue by the authenticated user and the subset of the registered users.