Adaptive Logistics Platform for Schedule Generation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Creating schedules for events with numerous competing priorities among users and companies is challenging due to the large number of variables involved, making it difficult to balance priorities such as safety, health, budget, and free time, especially when thousands of individuals are involved, and updating these schedules in response to external events is resource-intensive.

Innovation Solution

An adaptive logistics platform that uses processors to receive user and company preference data, external preference data, and generates schedules based on category scores, ranking them to select the best schedule while conserving resources through natural language processing and artificial intelligence models to predict user deviations and account for contextual changes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual creation of schedules is used, then flexibility and customization are improved, but it becomes impossible when thousands or tens of thousands of objects need to be considered

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveschedule creation flexibilityVSAvoidschedule creation capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual mechanical schedule creation with an automated system that uses natural language processing and machine learning models to generate schedules automatically, enabling the system to handle thousands of objects that would be impossible to manage manually

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system allows schedules to be created and updated automatically through natural language inputs without requiring manual intervention, with the AI models autonomously generating and optimizing schedule configurations based on user needs and constraints

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If comprehensive preference data from multiple sources is collected, then schedule quality and user satisfaction are improved, but processing resources and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveschedule qualityVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments preference data into distinct categories (user preferences, company preferences, external preferences) and processes each category separately through specialized AI models, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive data utilization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces natural language processing as an intermediary layer that translates diverse preference data from multiple sources into structured inputs that the scheduling AI models can process efficiently, simplifying the integration of comprehensive data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If schedules are updated in response to external events, then adaptability and relevance are improved, but processing resources are consumed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveschedule adaptabilityVSAvoidprocessing resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements periodic monitoring of external events and updates schedules at appropriate intervals rather than continuously, reducing processing resource consumption while maintaining schedule adaptability to relevant changes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system proactively monitors external events and updates schedules before users are affected by changes, allowing for more efficient processing by anticipating needs rather than reacting to crises

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10769561B2Adaptive logistics platform for generating and updating schedules using natural language processing
Publication Date: 2020.09.08 ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD
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AI summary

A device may receive user preference data and company preference data associated with one or more bookable items. The device may obtain external preference data associated with the one or more bookable items. The external preference data may be different from the user preference data and the company preference data. The device may generate a list of schedules based on the user preference data, the company preference data, and the external preference data. The device may generate one or more category scores for a plurality of schedules included in the list of schedules based on the company preference data. The device may rank the list of schedules based on the one or more category scores. The device may select a schedule, from the ranked list of schedules, based on the one or more category scores. The device may perform an action based on selecting the schedule.