Presentation Controller for Dynamic Bonus Store Routing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information processing devices do not effectively present bonus opportunities to users based on their vehicle's route and travel time, missing the chance to enhance user satisfaction by informing them of stores where they can receive bonuses during their journey.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device with a presentation controller that extracts and displays stores along a vehicle's route where a bonus is available, considering the start and end times of the bonus period, and adjusts the presentation based on the vehicle's expected arrival time, even if it's delayed due to congestion, ensuring the user can receive the bonus.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the system presents stores based on exact bonus period timing, then bonus accuracy is improved, but user satisfaction deteriorates when arrival is delayed due to congestion

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebonus timing accuracyVSAvoiduser satisfaction
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by presenting stores with bonus periods that occur after the vehicle's expected arrival time, allowing buffer time for potential delays. The presentation controller identifies stores where the bonus period starts after the expected arrival time and presents these to the user in advance, so that even if the vehicle is delayed due to congestion, the user can still arrive during the bonus period and receive the bonus.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If the system expands the time range for presenting stores, then user satisfaction is improved, but bonus period accuracy deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser satisfactionVSAvoidbonus period timing
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies parameter changes by dynamically adjusting the time range parameter based on the relationship between expected arrival time and bonus period start time. When the expected arrival time is before the bonus period start time, the system expands the presentation time range to include stores with future bonus periods. This parameter adjustment allows the system to maintain bonus timing accuracy while improving user satisfaction by accounting for potential delays.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If the system calculates expected arrival time considering congestion, then arrival accuracy is improved, but presentation timing flexibility deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvearrival time accuracyVSAvoidpresentation timing flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements dynamics by making the store presentation timing flexible and adaptive based on the calculated expected arrival time. The presentation controller dynamically adjusts which stores to present and when to present them, based on the vehicle's expected arrival time considering congestion. This allows the system to maintain accurate arrival time calculation while adapting the presentation timing to ensure users receive bonuses even when delayed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20240020721A1Information processing device
Publication Date: 2024.01.18 SUBARU CORP
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AI summary

An information processing device includes a presentation controller. The presentation controller is configured to present, to a user, a store that is extracted based on route information relating to a route on which a vehicle travels and store information including a period in which a bonus is provided. The store is where the vehicle can arrive in the period in which the bonus is provided. The store information includes at least a start time of the bonus. The presentation controller is configured to present, to the user, the store where the vehicle can arrive within a predetermined time range before the start time.