Peer-to-Peer Location Based eXchanges for Mobile Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current location-based services rely on centralized systems, which lead to performance issues, high infrastructure costs, and privacy concerns due to the need for a middleman service for location-dependent features and functionality, and existing methods for automatically locating mobile devices are costly and time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of Location Based eXchanges (LBX) enables peer-to-peer interactions among mobile data processing systems to provide location-based features and functionality without a centralized service, using indirect location methods and leveraging existing technologies like GPS, radio waves, and other wave spectrums for accurate location determination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If centralized location-based services are used, then location-dependent features and functionality can be provided, but infrastructure costs and system complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the location determination functionality from the centralized service infrastructure and places it directly in the mobile device. The mobile device autonomously determines its location using sensors and signal processing, eliminating the need for complex centralized location management systems while maintaining location-based features.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device performs self-location determination using its own sensors (GPS, accelerometer, compass) and signal processing capabilities. The device independently calculates its position, speed, and direction without requiring continuous intervention from centralized services, reducing infrastructure complexity.
2Ease of operation
If centralized services act as middlemen for location-based interactions, then coordination between devices is enabled, but performance bottlenecks and response time issues occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the centralized service middleman by enabling direct peer-to-peer communication between mobile devices. Devices exchange location and context information directly through wireless communication, eliminating the performance bottleneck of centralized processing while maintaining coordination capabilities.
3Loss of information
If centralized services maintain all location data, then comprehensive location information is available, but user privacy and data security concerns increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local data retention where each mobile device maintains its own location information and context data locally rather than transmitting it to centralized servers. This distributed data storage approach preserves location information availability while minimizing privacy risks by keeping data at the source.
Solution Approach 2:
Mobile devices autonomously manage their own location data, determining and storing position information locally without requiring centralized data collection. The device independently processes and utilizes its location data for local applications, reducing data transmission and centralized storage requirements.
4Measurement precision
If automated location methods are implemented, then location accuracy is improved, but cost and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a hierarchical approach to location determination, using less resource-intensive methods (signal triangulation, Wi-Fi positioning) when high precision is not required, and reserving more computationally demanding methods (GPS processing, sensor fusion) for situations requiring higher accuracy. This partial application of intensive processing reduces overall energy consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts location determination parameters based on requirements, switching between different measurement precisions and processing intensities. When coarse location suffices, the device uses lower-power methods; when high precision is needed, it activates more resource-intensive processing, optimizing the balance between accuracy and energy use.
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AI summary
Provided is a distributed system and method for enabling new and useful location dependent features and functionality to mobile data processing systems. Mobile data processing systems (MSs) interact with each other as peers in communications and interoperability. Data is shared between mobile data processing systems to carry out novel Location Based eXchanges (LBX) of data for new mobile applications. Information which is transmitted inbound to, transmitted outbound from, or is in process at, a mobile data processing system, is used to trigger processing of actions in accordance with user configured permissions, charters, and other configurations. In a preferred embodiment, a user configurable platform is provided for quickly building well behaving LBX applications at MSs and across a plurality of interoperating MSs.