Profile Building Using Location Information from User Device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional address applications rely heavily on user diligence for capturing and organizing profile information, leading to incomplete data due to the proactive nature of information acquisition.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that identify missing profile information, determine its necessity based on thresholds, and automatically obtain and add it to the profile, using various sources such as messages, social networks, and location servers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional address applications rely on users to proactively acquire and store address information, then users maintain control over their data, but the completeness and accuracy of profile information deteriorates due to lack of user diligence
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automatic profile building by having the application itself retrieve and organize address information from various sources (emails, messages, social networks) without requiring user intervention. The system serves itself by autonomously capturing communication data and extracting contact information, thereby resolving the contradiction between maintaining user control and achieving complete automated information collection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary automated system that acts as a bridge between communication platforms (emails, messages) and the address book. This intermediary automatically captures information from communication streams and populates profile data, eliminating the need for manual user input while ensuring comprehensive and accurate contact information is stored.
2Productivity
If users manually capture and organize address information from communications, then data privacy and security are maintained, but the productivity and time efficiency of information organization deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system is designed to work across multiple communication platforms (email clients, messaging applications, social networks) simultaneously. By creating a universal solution that interfaces with various communication sources, the system achieves high productivity in capturing address information without requiring separate manual processes for each platform, thereby managing complexity through standardized multi-functional architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically capturing and organizing address information as communications occur, rather than waiting for manual user input. Contact information is extracted and stored in real-time or near-real-time from incoming and outgoing communications, significantly improving the speed of profile information capture while using predetermined automation rules to manage system complexity.
3Measurement precision
If the system automatically retrieves location information from user devices, then the accuracy and currency of contact data is improved, but the consumption of user device resources and energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements partial automation by selectively retrieving location information only when necessary for profile updates or when triggered by specific events (new communications, profile access). Rather than continuously monitoring and consuming device resources, the system performs location data retrieval in a controlled, event-driven manner that maintains accuracy while minimizing energy consumption on user devices.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for building a profile for a contact. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes: identifying, via a computing device, missing information from a profile of a contact of a user, wherein the missing information includes a current physical location of the contact; determining whether to include the missing information in the profile based on satisfaction of a threshold; and in response to a determination to include the missing information: obtaining the missing information, wherein obtaining the current physical location of the contact includes retrieving a current physical location of a device of the contact; and adding the missing information to the profile.