Location-Based Trigger Management via POI Category Association
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional location-based triggers are limited as they are tied to specific coordinates and require manual association with individual places, making them cumbersome and inefficient, especially when users need to trigger actions based on categories of locations rather than specific points of interest, and they do not adapt well to dynamic changes in available POIs or landmarks.
Innovation Solution
The system allows location-based triggers to be created and associated with categories of POIs, landmarks, and location-based information, enabling triggers to be activated when criteria are met across multiple categories, with dynamic updates and enhanced search capabilities, including free text searches, to improve usability and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If location-based triggers are tied to specific coordinates and manually associated with individual places, then the trigger can be precisely activated at specific locations, but the system becomes cumbersome and inefficient when users need to trigger actions based on categories of locations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the monolithic trigger system into two independent components: location triggers (geofences) and category triggers (POI categories). This segmentation allows triggers to be associated with categories rather than specific coordinates, enabling users to create triggers for entire categories of locations without manually associating each individual place, thus resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements universality by enabling triggers to function with both specific location coordinates and broader POI categories. The system allows a single trigger to be associated with a category that encompasses multiple locations, making the trigger system universally applicable to both precise location-based actions and category-based actions, thereby improving adaptability without increasing manual association complexity
2Productivity
If conventional location-based triggers require manual association with individual places, then precise location control is achieved, but the process is time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-organizing locations into POI categories before trigger creation. Instead of requiring users to manually associate triggers with individual places at the moment of trigger creation, the system has categories预先 prepared and structured, allowing users to quickly create triggers by simply selecting the desired category, thus dramatically improving productivity and reducing time loss
3Adaptability or versatility
If triggers are associated with specific coordinates, then location precision is maintained, but the system does not adapt well to dynamic changes in available POIs or landmarks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a single-dimension approach (specific coordinates) to a two-dimension approach by introducing POI categories as an additional layer. This dimensional change allows the system to maintain location precision through geofence coordinates while simultaneously adapting to dynamic POI changes through category associations, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and precision
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AI summary
A location-based triggering system and method allow location-based triggers to be created and associated with POI, landmark, and/or location-based information categories comprised of a plurality of POIs, landmarks, and/or location-based information, POI, landmark, and/or location-based information sub-categories, as well as POI, landmark, and location-based information searches. A trigger is created, where the trigger comprises trigger criteria. At least one POI, landmark, and/or location-based information database containing a plurality of POIs, landmarks, and/or location-based information data is monitored for a match between the trigger criteria and at least one POI, landmark, and/or location-based information category. If a match exists, the trigger is activated, thereby executing a related action or event. Furthermore, additional search criteria can be combined with the trigger criteria to enhance the LBT process.