Mobility Profile Segmentation for Social Network Location Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current social network systems fail to provide a comprehensive and holistic solution for users' complex location and mobility scenarios, limiting real-time communication and content sharing across multiple locations, and struggling to engage users with relevant information and analytics for urban planning and business insights.
Innovation Solution
A social network system that offers multiple mobility profiles, including Multi Preselected Static Zones, On-The-Fly Static, and Dynamic Full Mobility, allowing users to create and share content based on preselected, temporary, or dynamically updating locations, with customizable access restrictions and notifications, using a geolocation engine to manage and tag content with mobility profiles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If current social network systems use single location-based profiles, then system simplicity is maintained, but the ability to handle complex location and mobility scenarios is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the location profile into multiple distinct mobility profiles (e.g., home, work, travel, transient locations). Each mobility profile represents a specific location context with its own characteristics and content preferences. This segmentation allows the system to handle complex location scenarios by dividing them into manageable, context-specific units that can be independently managed and combined.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal mobility profile framework that can serve multiple functions simultaneously. The same mobility profile structure handles diverse scenarios including fixed locations, temporary locations, and transient locations. This multi-functional approach allows a single system architecture to adapt to various location-based needs without requiring separate systems for each scenario.
2Productivity
If the system provides comprehensive location and mobility tracking, then real-time communication across multiple locations is improved, but data management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-defining mobility profiles with specific location contexts and characteristics before they are needed for communication. Users can pre-configure their mobility profiles (home, work, travel patterns) in advance, so that when real-time communication occurs, the system can immediately apply the appropriate profile without complex real-time analysis. This reduces data management complexity during active communication.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobility profile acts as an intermediary layer between raw location data and communication functionality. Instead of directly managing complex location coordinates and movement patterns, the system uses mobility profiles as intermediate representations that simplify data handling. The mobility profile mediates between the complex reality of user movement and the simplified needs of content delivery and communication.
3Ease of operation
If users can access content from multiple locations simultaneously, then user engagement is improved, but content access control becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by associating different content access rules with specific mobility profiles rather than applying uniform rules across all locations. Each mobility profile (home, work, travel) can have its own content visibility and access control settings. This allows content to be automatically tailored to the user's current location context, improving engagement while simplifying access control through localized rules rather than complex global policies.
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AI summary
A method for providing a social network system includes providing a plurality of engagable mobility profile options for a user for continuous engagement of one or more of the mobility profiles in real-time; receiving a current mobility profile option selection of a user, wherein use of the system by a user is conditional upon the user having one or more concurrent mobility profile option selection(s); and allowing a user to create content. The content may be created with a user selected restriction upon the ability of other users to access the content based upon the current mobility profile option selection or selections of the other users.