Temporal-Spatial Service Notification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in identifying and accessing temporally and spatially proximate personally attended services, such as entertainment, hospitality, and transportation, due to the time and effort required to determine availability and timing.
Innovation Solution
A computer system uses temporal-spatial criteria to identify and notify users of nearby services, determining user location through GPS or other means, and allowing users to set preferences and rules for spatial and temporal proximity, while also considering travel time and availability, to recommend suitable services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users manually search for and determine availability of personally attended services, then they can access service information, but it requires considerable time and effort
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically determines service availability and notifies users without requiring manual searching. The computer system autonomously monitors service inventory, calculates temporal-spatial proximity, and sends notifications, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring user effort to gather information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-calculating service availability, determining temporal-spatial proximity criteria, and preparing notification messages before users need the information. This advance preparation eliminates the time users would otherwise spend searching and determining availability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system provides comprehensive service notifications, then user information needs are met, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the complex notification task into distinct modules: location determination module, service identification module, temporal-spatial criteria evaluation module, and notification module. Each module handles a specific aspect of the problem, making the overall system more manageable and maintainable while providing comprehensive service coverage.
3Measurement precision
If the system calculates temporal-spatial proximity for all services, then accurate recommendations are provided, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies temporal-spatial proximity calculations selectively based on user-defined criteria rather than uniformly to all services. By allowing users to specify their own proximity thresholds and preferences, the system focuses computational resources only on evaluating services that meet the user's specific needs, achieving both accuracy and efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer system may notify a user about personally attended services satisfying temporal-spatial criteria. The computer system may use a user location and/or information on already scheduled events to determine whether a personally attended service satisfies the temporal-spatial criteria. Travel time may be determined and included when determining whether the personally attended service conflicts with an already scheduled event. The temporal-spatial criteria may also include availability of the personally attended service. A user profile and/or third party information may be used to determine if a user is available and/or would be receptive to a personally attended service. The user profile may be generated from third party information, such as contained in an online social network, and/or learned. The user may be able to reserve the personally attended service through the computer system.