Tag Management System for Dynamic Product Display

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing product information provision systems require multiple tags for each product poster, leading to inefficiencies when the number of product posters needs to be increased, and there is a risk of providing inappropriate information to users due to fixed tag information not matching dynamic display content.

Innovation Solution

A system utilizing a single tag per display that stores a unique ID, allowing a user terminal to retrieve corresponding information from a server based on user selection, ensuring accurate and dynamic information provision without the need for multiple tags or rewriting mechanisms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple tags are installed corresponding to each product poster within a panel, then each product can be identified accurately, but the system complexity and cost increase when the number of product posters needs to be increased

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduct identification accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple product poster information is merged into a single panel display, with one tag card containing identification information for all products in that panel. The server consolidates and manages the correspondence between the single tag card ID and multiple product IDs, reducing the number of physical tags needed while maintaining accurate product identification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

A single tag card serves multiple functions by containing identification information for multiple product posters within a panel. The same tag card can be used across different panels through server-based management, making the tag universal rather than dedicated to a single product or location.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If tags are installed corresponding to product images displayed on a display, then dynamic content can be shown, but the information in the tag becomes fixed and may not match the dynamically changed display content

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay content flexibilityVSAvoidinformation matching accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The server acts as an intermediary between the static tag card information and the dynamic display content. When a user scans the tag card, the server receives the tag ID, determines which product image is currently displayed on the panel, and provides the corresponding accurate product information, ensuring the information matches the displayed content even though the display can change dynamically.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces dynamics through the server-side processing rather than requiring dynamic tags. The tag card remains static with fixed identification information, but the server dynamically resolves the correct product information based on the current display state, allowing the system to adapt to changing display content without modifying the physical tags.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Productivity

If one tag is used for multiple product posters within a panel, then the number of tags needed is reduced, but it becomes difficult to manage and identify individual product correspondences

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetag installation efficiencyVSAvoidtag management ease

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system moves the management complexity from the physical tag dimension to the server data dimension. Instead of managing multiple physical tags across different spatial locations, the system uses a single physical tag with multiple logical product associations managed in the server's data structure, effectively adding a data organization dimension to solve the management problem.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS10324972B2Tag management system, tag management method, information provision system, and information provision method, as well as devices and tag used therefor

Publication Date: 2019.06.18 AQUABIT SPIRALS INC

AI summary

An operation terminal (120) requires an input of an authentication code when an authority granting request for corresponding electronic information to a tag (100) is received from a user, and transmits the authentication code to a server together with the authority granting request. The server (140) has an authentication code memory unit (142) that stores the authentication code for each tag, and an authorized user management unit (144) that manages the authorized user for each tag. In the case where an authority granting request and an authentication code are received from the operation terminal (120), the server (140) registers the user of the operation terminal (120) with the authorized user management unit (144) as an authorized user of the tag (100) under the conditions that an authorized user of the tag (100) is not registered with the authorized user management unit (144) and the received authentication code matches the contents of the authentication code memory unit (142).