Automated Form Generation System for Data Consistency

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Solution Overview

Problem

Analyzing user-collected data across different user response forms is complex due to varying formats and forms, making it difficult to correlate responses from different users and forms, such as employment and job history forms, which traditionally requires manual and time-consuming processes prone to errors.

Innovation Solution

Automatically generating and distributing custom forms compatible with each other, correlating responses by identifying relationships between form responses and restricting user inputs to specific formats, using a process that analyzes input document data to identify response fields and map them to existing data storage, ensuring consistency and quality of user data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If manual processes are used to collect and correlate user responses from different forms, then flexibility in form design is maintained, but data consistency and analysis efficiency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveform design flexibilityVSAvoiddata consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal data model that serves multiple functions: it structures data from diverse forms consistently, enables automated analysis across different form types, and maintains adaptability to new form formats. This universal structure resolves the contradiction by providing a common framework that handles both flexibility and consistency requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms unstructured or semi-structured form responses into standardized parameters through automated processing. By changing the parameter representation of user data from free-text formats to structured, categorized parameters, the system achieves both form design flexibility and data consistency simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If diverse form formats are allowed to accommodate different user needs, then user response collection versatility improves, but data correlation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser response collection versatilityVSAvoiddata correlation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that sits between diverse form inputs and the final data correlation system. This intermediary automatically standardizes incoming data from various form formats into a unified structure, thereby maintaining collection versatility while eliminating correlation complexity for downstream processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments the data correlation process into distinct automated stages: form parsing, parameter extraction, standardization, and correlation. By dividing the complex task into manageable segments handled by specialized algorithms, the system manages diverse form formats without increasing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Manufacturing precision

If automated form generation is implemented to improve data consistency, then manual effort increases, but the patent actually reduces manual effort through automation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata consistencyVSAvoidmanual effort
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service automation where the form generation and data processing mechanisms automatically adapt to new form types without requiring manual configuration. The automated system serves itself by learning from incoming data patterns and adjusting its processing rules, thereby achieving data consistency while minimizing manual effort through intelligent automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11386263B2Automatic generation of form application
Publication Date: 2022.07.12 SERVICENOW INC
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AI summary

An input document data is received. The document data is analyzed to automatically identify one or more response fields and one or more corresponding text labels laid out in the input document data. An application configured to provide to users the one or more response fields and the one or more corresponding text labels and receive inputs to the response fields from the users that are recorded in a persistent computer storage is automatically generated.