Meeting Spot Matching System for Privacy-Safe Social Discovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online communication methods for meeting people are often cumbersome and invasive, requiring detailed personal profiles and raising privacy concerns, making them less intuitive and secure for social interactions.
Innovation Solution
A system and graphical user interface that allows users to select meeting spots on a map, enabling them to find and communicate with others who have chosen the same locations, using a server to match meeting spot data and facilitate interactions through text, audio, or video communications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users fill out detailed personal profiles for online communication services, then the system can provide more personalized matching and communication options, but the process becomes cumbersome and raises privacy concerns
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential matching function from complex personal profiles and implements it through simple meeting spot selections. Instead of requiring users to fill out detailed profiles, the system uses only the meeting spot data to determine user compatibility and initiate communications, thereby simplifying the user interface while maintaining personalized matching capability
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a simplified representation of user preferences through meeting spot selections rather than requiring complete personal profile data. This copying approach allows the system to match users based on their chosen meeting spots without needing extensive personal information, thus reducing privacy concerns and operational complexity
2Adaptability or versatility
If users fill out detailed personal profiles for online communication services, then the system can provide more personalized matching and communication options, but privacy concerns are raised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary information (meeting spot selections) from what would otherwise be comprehensive personal profiles. By taking out only the essential data needed for matching and communication initiation, the system achieves personalized matching while minimizing data collection and thus reducing privacy concerns
Solution Approach 2:
Meeting spots serve as an intermediary element that mediates between users and the communication system. Instead of users directly providing personal profiles to the system, they simply select meeting spots, and the system uses these selections as the basis for matching and initiating communications, thereby reducing direct data exposure and privacy risks
3Measurement precision
If the system requires users to provide extensive personal information for communication, then matching accuracy improves, but the system becomes less intuitive and secure
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a simplified copy of user preferences through meeting spot selections rather than requiring complete personal information. This copying approach maintains matching accuracy by capturing essential user interests and preferences in an intuitive, easy-to-use format that does not require complex profile filling
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AI summary
A method, system, and graphical user interface for meeting-spot-related online communications are disclosed. A “meeting spot” is a specific physical location where two or more people can arrange to meet face to face. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which a server computer receives meeting spot data that correspond to a plurality of meeting spots selected by a computer user at a client device and sends information concerning other computer users that have also selected two or more of the meeting spots selected by the computer user to the client device for display.