Integrated Advance Life Planning System with Unified Database Schema
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals often face burdensome and emotional challenges in managing funeral and estate planning after a loved one's death, with fragmented services and lack of pre-planning options, leading to financial strain on family members.
Innovation Solution
An integrated advance life planning and management system that provides a single interface for estate planning, will preparation, and funeral planning through a user terminal connected via the Internet, utilizing a processor and data storage to offer services, generate common field tables, and modify user profile data across services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate services are provided for estate planning, will preparation, and funeral planning, then service completeness is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate advance life planning services (estate planning, will preparation, funeral planning) into a single integrated computer system. The system uses a unified database schema with common fields that are shared across all services, allowing users to access comprehensive services through one interface rather than multiple separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The computer system is designed to provide multiple different advance life planning services through a single platform. The database structure supports various services by identifying common fields that are used across estate planning, will preparation, and funeral planning, making the system universally applicable to multiple service types.
2Measurement precision
If manual data input is required for each service separately, then data accuracy is improved, but user burden increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically populating service-specific data fields from common fields stored in the database. When a user completes information once in the common fields, the system proactively uses this data across multiple services, eliminating the need for repeated manual entry and reducing user burden while maintaining data accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides self-service functionality by automatically managing data population across services. The computer system itself performs the task of copying and adapting data from common fields to service-specific fields without requiring user intervention, thereby reducing operational burden while preserving data integrity through automated processes.
3Adaptability or versatility
If data is stored separately for each service, then service-specific customization is improved, but data redundancy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The database is segmented into two distinct parts: common fields that are shared across all services and service-specific fields that are unique to each service type. This segmentation allows the system to maintain service-specific customization through service-specific fields while avoiding redundancy by storing shared information only once in the common fields.
Solution Approach 2:
The database structure applies local quality by assigning different data storage characteristics to different parts of the system. Common fields store universal information once for all services, while service-specific fields store customized information locally for each service. This creates an optimized data distribution that reduces redundancy while preserving service-specific customization capabilities.
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AI summary
An integrated advance life planning and management system provides to a user, through a single convenient Internet interface, a plurality of advance life planning and management services including estate planning, will preparation, and funeral planning services.