Mobile Messaging Location Sharing Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile communication technologies lack efficient methods for integrating location sharing with messaging platforms, providing notifications of future events, and sharing routes between devices, often requiring complex setups and account creation.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing computer-readable instructions to integrate location sharing events with messaging platforms, providing notification of future events, and sharing routes between devices, which includes parsing messages for time and location indications, generating notifications, and displaying maps for route sharing, without the need for specific applications or account creation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If location sharing is integrated with messaging platforms through parsing and analysis, then communication efficiency and user experience are improved, but system complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically parses messages, detects location and time indicators, and generates location sharing events without requiring user intervention. The messaging platform itself performs the analysis and integration functions, making the system self-sufficient and reducing external complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines location sharing functionality directly within the messaging platform by integrating message parsing, location detection, and event generation into a unified system. This merging eliminates the need for separate applications and simplifies the user workflow
2Measurement precision
If message parsing and context analysis are performed to detect location and time indicators, then location sharing accuracy and relevance are improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-identifies and flags potential location and time indicators within messages during the parsing phase. By preparing and structuring this data in advance, the system reduces the computational burden during event generation and minimizes overall processing time while maintaining high detection accuracy
3Reliability
If notification reminders are generated based on message context analysis, then user awareness of future events is improved, but system processing load and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary notification mechanism that bridges message context analysis and user alerting. This intermediary layer processes contextual information, determines appropriate reminder timing, and generates notifications without requiring the entire system to handle all processing simultaneously, thereby distributing the processing load
4Adaptability or versatility
If route sharing between devices is implemented with map display, then navigation coordination and collaboration are improved, but data transmission requirements and network usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential route information (key waypoints, directions, and navigation data) from complete map datasets for transmission between devices. By transmitting only the necessary navigation elements rather than full map data, the system enables effective route sharing while minimizing network bandwidth consumption
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AI summary
A mobile application for integrating a location sharing event with a messaging platform such as a text messaging or email platform allows users to be prompted about location sharing when at least a part of the message includes location or time information. In one embodiment, the mobile application takes the form of an integrated location sharing application that parses the message to discern the relevant location or time information. The application may also provide a notification of a future event and may optionally generate a location sharing event based on the notification. In another embodiment, the application permits interactive route sharing between at least two computing devices.