Proximity-Based Virtual Assistant Data Exchange for Public Safety
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Solution Overview
Problem
Public safety officers often lack access to relevant information held by their peers due to privacy concerns, making it difficult to share information without compromising personal data.
Innovation Solution
A communication system utilizing virtual personal assistants and a Big Data Server to facilitate secure, proximity-based data sharing between mobile devices, ensuring only relevant and overlapping information is exchanged while maintaining privacy through secure access controls.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If public safety officers share all information including personal data to ensure complete information availability, then information completeness is improved, but privacy security deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments information into different categories (work-related vs. personal) and applies different sharing rules to each segment. The system automatically identifies and separates sensitive personal information from work-related information, allowing selective sharing of only relevant work information while protecting personal data segments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a communication system as an intermediary between public safety officers that automatically filters and manages information sharing. This intermediary system analyzes communication content, identifies relevant work information, and handles the sharing process while blocking personal information, thus resolving the contradiction between complete information sharing and privacy protection.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If public safety officers restrict information sharing to protect personal data, then privacy security is improved, but information availability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service functionality where the communication system automatically performs information classification, filtering, and sharing decisions without requiring manual user intervention. The system autonomously identifies work-related information that should be shared and personal information that should be protected, enabling privacy-protected information availability.
3Device complexity
If manual information sharing between officers is implemented, then system complexity is reduced, but time efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the communication system continuously monitors communications, learns from interaction patterns, and automatically adjusts information sharing decisions. The system provides feedback to officers about sharing activities and automatically refines its filtering algorithms based on usage patterns, improving time efficiency while maintaining manageable system complexity.
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AI summary
A method is provided that provides information exchange between mobile devices that are near each other. Upon determining that a first mobile device is located near a second mobile device, information is exchanged between a first virtual personal assistant associated with the first mobile device and a second virtual personal assistant associated with the second mobile device. The information is compared to identify an overlapping topic in the information. If there is overlapping information, the users of the mobile devices are alerted to the overlapping topic.