Location-Based Notification Subscription Service
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current push-notification services lack the ability to provide personalized notifications based on user preferences and location, resulting in a suboptimal user experience.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that allow users to subscribe to location-based notifications by selecting points of interest on an electronic map, enabling service providers to send targeted messages to users regardless of their location, with notifications being integrated into the relevant application and categorized for specific fields of interest.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If push-messaging is used to inform clients about new content, then service providers can notify users about updates, but users receive unnecessary messages that reduce user experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making notification delivery location-specific. Instead of sending uniform notifications to all users, the system determines the user's current location and only delivers notifications when the user is physically present at or near the relevant location. This ensures that notification information is delivered precisely where and when it is needed, eliminating unnecessary messages that degrade user experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the user's location and using this information to control notification delivery. The location data serves as feedback that determines whether the conditions for sending a notification are met, creating a closed-loop system that adapts notification delivery based on real-time user context.
2Productivity
If notifications are sent to all users about service updates, then service providers can maximize information dissemination, but users receive irrelevant notifications that they do not need
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes notification relevance location-dependent. By associating notifications with specific geographic locations and comparing them against the user's current location, the system ensures that only relevant information is delivered. This transforms mass notification into targeted notification, maintaining information dissemination efficiency while improving information relevance.
3Loss of information
If location-based filtering is implemented for notifications, then users receive more relevant information, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that handles the complex logic of location-based notification filtering. Instead of implementing complex filtering algorithms in each user device, the server receives location information, determines relevance based on stored location data, and selectively delivers notifications. This centralizes the complexity management and simplifies the overall system architecture.
Data Source
AI summary
There are disclosed various methods and apparatuses notification service. In some embodiments the method comprises receiving an indication from a client device, which indication relates to a location; creating a subscription between the client and the location owner of said location being selected, and based on the subscription, transmitting notifications relating to the location to the client device. In some other embodiments, the method comprises selecting a location by an apparatus; transmitting an indication relating to said location to a server to have a subscription with a location owner of said location; based on the subscription, receiving notifications from the location owner.