Travel Plan Comment Association System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing travel itinerary planning systems fail to clearly associate comments with specific events in a multi-user travel plan, making it difficult for users to express opinions on movements, visits, and experiences.
Innovation Solution
A planning assistance system that includes a comment reception mechanism to receive user comments for each event in a travel plan and a display control mechanism to display these comments in association with the corresponding events, allowing users to easily contribute and view opinions on a shared travel plan.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a message is transmitted for an itinerary including a plurality of spots, then communication between users is enabled, but it becomes unclear which spot the message is about
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the itinerary into discrete events (spots, movements, experiences) and associates messages with specific event identifiers. Each message is linked to a particular event through an event ID, allowing users to communicate about individual spots without confusion about which spot the message refers to.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an event identifier as an intermediary between the message and the itinerary spots. This intermediary uniquely identifies each spot or event, enabling precise message routing and context association without requiring users to manually specify which spot they are referring to.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users are allowed to comment on travel plans, then collaboration is improved, but it becomes difficult to present opinions for each specific event
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the travel plan into distinct events (spots, movements, experiences) and provides separate comment functionality for each event. Users can navigate to specific events and add comments targeted at that particular event, making it easy to express opinions about individual spots rather than the entire itinerary.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds an event dimension to the commenting system. Instead of a single comment field for the entire itinerary, the system introduces event-level granularity, allowing comments to be organized and associated with specific events within the multi-dimensional itinerary structure.
3Loss of information
If comments are collected for multiple events, then comprehensive feedback is obtained, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses event identifiers as intermediaries to manage comments across multiple events. Each comment is associated with an event ID, which serves as a key to link the comment to the appropriate event. This intermediary approach allows the system to handle multiple events efficiently without requiring complex data structures or management logic.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a standardized comment structure that can be copied and applied to each event. The same comment template and association mechanism (event ID + user ID + timestamp) is replicated for every event, simplifying the management of comprehensive feedback across multiple events through consistent, reusable patterns.
Data Source
AI summary
A planning assistance system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: receive a comment of each of users for each of a plurality of events included in a travel plan; and cause a display to display the received comment in association with each of the events.