Personalized Bundling Incentives Through Qualified Transaction Sorting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Organizations face challenges in tracking customer activity eligibility for incentives and presenting personalized incentive programs, leading to inefficiencies and missed opportunities for customer engagement.

Innovation Solution

A system that uses client-specific records and qualification criteria to automatically arrange and present incentive programs in a user interface, distinguishing between qualified and unqualified transactions, and enabling clients to interact only with eligible options.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If customers are presented with all available incentive programs and activity records, then they have complete information about eligibility, but it becomes difficult to identify and engage with qualified activities efficiently

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidactivity identification efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments activity records into distinct categories based on qualification criteria - separating qualified activities from unqualified ones. This segmentation allows customers to quickly identify relevant activities without reviewing all records, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and identification efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts and highlights only the qualified activities that meet incentive program criteria, taking them out from the general list of activities. This extraction enables customers to focus their attention on relevant opportunities while maintaining awareness of all available programs through the organized presentation structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Productivity

If the system automatically tracks and presents personalized incentive programs, then customer engagement is enhanced, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer engagement efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically tracking customer activities, evaluating eligibility against incentive program criteria, and presenting personalized recommendations without requiring manual intervention. This automation enhances engagement efficiency while the modular architecture keeps system complexity manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-evaluating activity records against qualification criteria and pre-organizing personalized incentive program presentations before customer interaction. This preliminary processing automates the engagement workflow, improving efficiency while maintaining clear system boundaries that manage complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If customers manually review all activity records to identify eligible transactions, then they can understand eligibility criteria, but it consumes significant time and resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveeligibility accuracyVSAvoidtime for activity review
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces the mechanical manual review process with automated computer-based evaluation. Activity records are automatically processed against incentive program criteria using programming logic, eliminating the need for customers to manually review all records while maintaining accurate eligibility determination.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback by automatically determining eligibility status for each activity record and presenting this information to customers in an organized manner. This automated feedback mechanism ensures accurate eligibility assessment while significantly reducing the time customers would otherwise spend manually reviewing records.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250238831A1Providing personalized incentives for bundling activities
Publication Date: 2025.07.24 AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES CO INC
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AI summary

Disclosed are various approaches for providing incentive programs for certain kinds of activities conducted in a client account. A selection of a first record from a plurality of records presented through a user interface is received. Then a message is sent to a program service, the message comprising record data associated with the first record. Next, a program-qualified category of the plurality of records and a program-unqualified category of the plurality of records is obtained from the program service. Subsequently, the plurality of records in the user interface is automatically arranged based at least in part on the program-qualified category and the program-unqualified category.