Auction-Based Queuing Exemption System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals with limited spare time face inconvenience in queuing for popular goods and services due to long wait times, and existing methods do not allow for efficient transfer or compensation of waiting time.
Innovation Solution
A queuing exemption method and system where bidders can purchase queuing exemption rights through an auction system, allowing successful bidders to skip waiting by authenticating a unique password, and a queuing place-taking method where bidders can take the place of someone waiting, with a settlement system for monetary compensation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If people line up in a queue to purchase goods or tickets, then first-come-first-served fairness is maintained, but people with limited spare time cannot acquire goods or services efficiently
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows users to perform preliminary actions by bidding for queuing exemption rights before actually needing the service. Successful bidders receive exemption rights that enable them to skip the physical queue later, transforming the time-consuming queueing process into a pre-purchased privilege that can be redeemed when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The auction system acts as an intermediary between users who want to avoid waiting and the service providers. It mediates the transfer of queuing positions through bidding, where money serves as the intermediary medium to exchange waiting time, allowing time-poor users to acquire service priority without physically standing in line.
2Adaptability or versatility
If people spend time lining up in a queue, then they may acquire goods or tickets, but the time spent cannot be recovered or transferred to others
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts the value of waiting time from the queueing process and separates it from the physical act of standing in line. By bidding for exemption rights, users can extract the benefit of skipped waiting time without actually experiencing the wait, and this extracted value can be transferred through the auction mechanism to other users who need the service urgently.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of queuing from a time-based sequential process to a price-based priority system. Instead of measuring queue position by arrival time, the system allows users to bid monetary amounts to purchase exemption rights, transforming the queuing parameter from temporal (time waited) to economic (bid amount), enabling flexible time transferability.
3Ease of operation
If an auction system is implemented for queuing exemption rights, then users can acquire service priority without waiting, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The auction system is designed to handle multiple functions within a single platform: it manages user registration, processes bids for exemption rights, stores exemption data, validates passwords, and coordinates with service providers. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate specialized systems while maintaining ease of operation for users who simply need to bid and redeem their exemption rights.
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AI summary
In order to exchange waiting time, troublesomeness, and labor incurred in the receiving of goods and services with a monetary value, and acquire a priority with respect to the provision of goods and services, an auction system receives bids for queuing exemption rights from bidder terminals, decides upon a successful bidder for the queuing exemption rights, sends an exemption rights password corresponding to the queuing exemption rights to the terminal of the decided upon bidder, and sends the exemption rights password to an exemption rights authentication system. When the exemption rights authentication system acquires the exemption rights password from the successful bidder, the exemption rights password acquired from the successful bidder and the exemption rights password acquired from the auction system are collated, and when the result of this collation is a match, a signal indicating that the result of this collation is a match is outputted to exemption notification means.