Map-Based GUI for Location-Anchored Ephemeral Content Discovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing social media platforms lack an effective way to present ephemeral content on a geographical map-based interface, limiting user interaction and engagement with location-based content.
Innovation Solution
A map-based graphical user interface (GUI) that displays geographically anchored icons for ephemeral messages or galleries, allowing users to explore and interact with location-based ephemeral content, including friend locations and dynamic galleries based on geo-tagged submissions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If social media platforms use traditional feed-based interfaces to display ephemeral content, then content delivery is straightforward, but user engagement with location-based content is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a traditional one-dimensional feed interface to a two-dimensional map interface. This dimensional change allows users to visualize and interact with ephemeral content in a spatial context, showing location-based content across geographical areas rather than just chronological sequences, thereby enhancing user engagement with location-based social media content
2Loss of information
If the system provides comprehensive access to all ephemeral content, then user engagement increases, but information overload and difficulty in finding relevant content increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing users to focus on specific geographical areas or locations of interest on the map. Instead of presenting all ephemeral content uniformly, the system enables users to concentrate their view on particular regions, thereby reducing information overload while maintaining access to comprehensive content through spatial filtering based on location relevance
3Duration of action of stationary object
If ephemeral content is made permanently accessible, then content availability increases, but the ephemeral nature and urgency of the content is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses visual indicators on the map interface to communicate the temporal status of ephemeral content. Different visual states or indicators show whether content is currently available, expiring soon, or has expired, allowing users to quickly assess content urgency without permanently displaying all content. This maintains the ephemeral nature while providing guidance on content availability
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AI summary
A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) with multiple geographically anchored icons that are selectable to trigger playback of respective galleries of ephemeral messages. Each of the plurality of location-based ephemeral galleries comprises media content contributed by multiple different users. The ephemeral galleries are compiled based on geo-tag data associated with respective ephemeral messages submitted by multiple users to be publicly viewable via the map-based GUI.