Peer-to-Peer Navigating Device for Real-Time Scenic Information Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional navigating devices lack the ability to provide timely and updated information about scenic spots, such as store discounts, activities, and road changes, and often rely on outdated or unclassified internet data.
Innovation Solution
A peer-to-peer navigating device with a positioning unit, information capturing unit, control unit, storage unit, and communication unit that generates a scenic spot release index based on position and time information, allowing for the sharing of updated scenic spot information between devices via a server, enabling quick and accurate information transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional navigating devices rely on business operators for map information updates, then the device structure remains simple, but the information timeliness and diversity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The navigating device enables users to capture scenic spot information themselves using the information capturing unit (camera, microphone, keyboard), eliminating dependence on business operators for information updates. The device stores and transmits this self-captured information peer-to-peer, achieving information timeliness through user self-service rather than operator-mediated updates.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple functional units (positioning unit, information capturing unit, control unit, storage unit, communication unit) into an integrated navigating device. This merging enables the device to simultaneously perform positioning, information capture, storage, and peer-to-peer transmission, resolving the contradiction by creating a unified system that achieves information timeliness while maintaining manageable complexity through functional integration.
2Reliability
If navigating devices use Internet-based scenic spot information, then information diversity increases, but information validity and accuracy deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of relying on Internet-based information that may be outdated or unclassified, the device enables users to capture current, valid scenic spot information themselves. The information capturing unit records real-time data about store discounts, activities, and road changes, ensuring information validity while maintaining diversity through user-generated content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a peer-to-peer transmission mechanism as an intermediary between information sources and users. Rather than relying on Internet servers that may provide outdated information, the system uses nearby navigating devices as intermediaries to transmit fresh, valid information directly to users, preserving both validity and diversity.
3Loss of time
If business operators provide map information updates, then information coverage is comprehensive, but information timeliness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The device empowers users to capture and transmit information immediately upon encountering scenic spots, eliminating the time delay inherent in operator-mediated update processes. Users themselves become the source and transmitter of information, achieving real-time updates without sacrificing information coverage through the peer-to-peer network.
Solution Approach 2:
The device performs information capture and storage locally before any transmission is needed. By preliminarily capturing scenic spot information and storing it in the storage unit, the system ensures immediate availability when other devices query for information, eliminating update delays while maintaining comprehensive coverage through pre-captured data.
4Loss of time
If navigating devices implement peer-to-peer information transmission, then information timeliness improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges five distinct functional units into a single integrated navigating device, managing the complexity of peer-to-peer transmission through functional consolidation. The control unit coordinates positioning, information capture, storage, and communication functions, achieving fast information transmission while keeping system complexity manageable through unified control.
Solution Approach 2:
The navigating device is designed as a multi-functional system that performs positioning, information capture, storage, and peer-to-peer transmission simultaneously. This universal design allows the same device structure to handle multiple tasks, reducing overall system complexity compared to separate specialized systems while achieving rapid information transmission through integrated peer-to-peer capability.
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AI summary
The present invention discloses a peer-to-peer scenic information sharing navigating device and its method, including a positioning unit for receiving a positioning message to determine position information of a point of interest; an information capturing unit for obtaining scenic spot information of the point of interest; a control unit for receiving the scenic spot information and its corresponding position information, and generating a scenic spot release index based on an identity identification message; a storage unit for storing the scenic spot information according to the control unit; and a communication unit for transmitting the scenic spot release index to a server. If another navigating device accesses the scenic spot release index through the server and requests to download, the control unit will retrieve the scenic spot information from the storage unit, and the communication unit will transmit a part of the scenic spot information to the other navigating device.