Navigation System Allowance Time Content Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing navigation systems provide limited additional content during intervals where navigation information is not required, such as on straight roads or highways, forcing users to use separate devices for information like traffic updates, music, or language learning.
Innovation Solution
A navigation system that recognizes 'allowance time' based on distance, road straightness, and speed, connects to a content server via a mobile network, and provides real-time content like traffic, stock, or weather information during these intervals, allowing users to access desired content without needing separate devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If navigation systems provide only navigation information during driving intervals, then navigation accuracy is maintained, but user convenience and information accessibility are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The navigation system is enhanced to perform multiple functions: it provides traditional navigation information (directions, route guidance) while simultaneously providing diverse additional content (traffic information, music, language learning, stock market updates) during allowance time intervals, making the system universally applicable to various user needs without requiring separate devices
2Ease of operation
If navigation systems integrate multiple content types during allowance time, then user convenience is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the driving time into different intervals: navigation-provided time (when navigation information is actively needed) and allowance time (when navigation information is not required). During allowance time, the system provides diverse content categories (traffic, music, language, stock market) segmented by user preferences and road conditions, managing complexity through structured time-based content delivery
3Loss of information
If navigation systems provide real-time content updates, then information freshness is improved, but data transmission requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic content updates during allowance time intervals rather than continuous updates. Content is refreshed at predetermined intervals (e.g., every 5-10 minutes) or when specific conditions are met (road straightness, distance between guide points), reducing data transmission frequency and energy consumption while maintaining information freshness for the duration of each allowance time period
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a method of providing a content in real time and a navigation system for providing a content in real time which recognizes an allowance time for providing the content by considering a time, a distance, a road straightness from a current guide point to a subsequent guide point, receives the content from a predetermined content providing server in real time, and provides the content during the allowance time. A navigation system for providing a content in real time, the navigation system including: an allowance time recognition unit recognizing an existence of an allowance time for providing the content while navigating; a server connection unit connecting to a predetermined content providing server via a communication network; a content receiving unit receiving the content from the content providing server; and a content providing unit providing the received content during the allowance time.