Playability Service API for Filtering Location Points

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing application programming interfaces (APIs) for providing geographic information to third-party developers lack efficient methods for determining suitable locations for location-based applications, particularly in ensuring safety, cultural appropriateness, and legal compliance.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and API that obtain and filter location points to generate a candidate location dataset, providing data associated with suitable locations for use in generating location-based application content, such as in location-based gaming applications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If existing APIs provide geographic information to third-party developers, then developers can access location data, but the APIs lack efficient methods for determining suitable locations that ensure safety, cultural appropriateness, and legal compliance

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of determining suitable locationsVSAvoidsafety and compliance assurance

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary filtering and scoring of location points before they are made available to developers. Location points are pre-evaluated against safety criteria, cultural appropriateness guidelines, and legal compliance requirements to generate a curated candidate location dataset, eliminating the need for developers to perform complex filtering themselves while ensuring reliability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If the system filters location points to ensure safety and cultural appropriateness, then reliability improves, but the complexity of the system increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesafety and cultural appropriatenessVSAvoidfiltering and scoring system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary layer between raw geographic data and developer applications. This intermediary component handles all complex filtering, scoring, and validation logic, translating raw location data into pre-vetted candidate locations. The intermediary absorbs system complexity while presenting a simplified, reliable interface to developers

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms location data by changing key parameters such as safety score, cultural appropriateness rating, and legal compliance status. By converting raw geographic coordinates into enriched location objects with these evaluated parameters, the system simplifies the interface for developers while maintaining complex validation logic internally

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If the API provides a comprehensive candidate location dataset, then developers have more location options, but the data processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelocation selection flexibilityVSAvoiddata processing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250128175A1Playability Service Application Programming Interface

Publication Date: 2025.04.24 GOOGLE LLC

AI summary

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for providing geographic information for software application development. In one example, a computer-implemented method is provided for determining candidate locations for a playability service, which includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices, a plurality of location points and filtering the plurality of location points to obtain a plurality of candidate location points based at least in part on a suitability of each of the location points for use in generating location-based application content. The method further includes generating, by the one or more computing devices, a candidate location dataset based on the plurality of candidate location points. The method further includes receiving, by the one or more computing devices, a request for one or more of the plurality of candidate location points and providing data associated with one or more of the plurality of candidate location points in response to the request.