Meeting Spot Introductions via Location-Based User Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online communication methods for social interactions are often cumbersome and invasive, requiring detailed personal profiles and raising privacy concerns, making it difficult to intuitively and securely interact with friends and meet new people.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that associates users with specific meeting spots, allowing for the identification and communication with other users at those locations through a graphical user interface, enabling online interactions without the need for extensive personal profiling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If detailed personal profiles are required for online communication, then user information completeness is improved, but user privacy protection deteriorates and system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential function of user profiling by replacing detailed personal profiles with location-based identification. Instead of requiring users to fill out comprehensive personal information, the system only needs to identify users by their current meeting spot location, thereby maintaining user information completeness while protecting privacy
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces location data as an intermediary element that mediates between users. Rather than users directly sharing personal information, the system uses meeting spot locations as an intermediate identifier to establish connections, reducing the need for detailed personal profiles while still enabling effective user identification and matching
2Measurement precision
If detailed personal profiles are required, then user matching accuracy is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by automatically determining user location through the meeting spot application. Instead of requiring users to manually fill out profiles and update their information, the system automatically tracks and uses location data from the meeting spot context, making the process effortless while maintaining accurate user identification for matching purposes
3Productivity
If extensive personal information is collected, then communication effectiveness is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential element needed for communication effectiveness - location data - while eliminating the need for complex personal information collection and management systems. This simplifies the overall system architecture by focusing on a single key identifier (meeting spot location) rather than maintaining complex user profiles
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AI summary
A first user, who is currently online, is associated with a meeting spot. A plurality of other users that have selected the meeting spot and are online is identified. Information about these other users is sent to a client device associated with the first user. Information for a second user of the plurality of other users is received from the client device associated with the first user. A third user is identified who is online and associated with the first and second users. Online communication is facilitated between the client devices associated with the first and second users and a client device associated with the third user responsive to a request from the client device associated with the first user to the client device associated with the third user to be introduced by the third user to the second user, while the second user has still selected the meeting spot.