Centralized Communication Tracking With Dynamic Timeliness Thresholds

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Solution Overview

Problem

Large entities face challenges in ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of communications across multiple channels, with regulatory compliance and guaranteed delivery being critical, yet existing systems lack centralized processing and tracking capabilities.

Innovation Solution

A centralized computing hub manages and tracks communications through both digital and physical channels, implementing quality assurance checks, orchestrating delivery, and dynamically adjusting timeliness thresholds using intelligent algorithms based on historical and predicted communication patterns.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If communications are processed in isolation by different entities and originating systems, then each system can maintain its own processing logic and channel-specific requirements, but centralized tracking and monitoring of communication delivery across all channels becomes impossible

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication delivery assuranceVSAvoidsystem architecture
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a centralized communication management system that acts as an intermediary between multiple originating systems and communication channels. This mediator receives communication requests from various entities, orchestrates the delivery process across different channels (email, SMS, fax, physical mail), and provides unified tracking and monitoring capabilities without requiring changes to the existing originating systems or communication channels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The communication management system is designed to handle multiple communication channels and types through a single unified platform. It can process email, SMS, fax, and physical mail communications through the same system architecture, providing universal tracking and monitoring capabilities across all channel types while maintaining channel-specific delivery requirements.

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

2Manufacturing precision

If quality assurance checks are performed at multiple stages of the communication process, then completeness and accuracy of communications are improved, but processing time and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication content accuracyVSAvoidcommunication processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs quality assurance checks at multiple predetermined stages of the communication process, including content generation, content verification, and delivery orchestration. By implementing checks in advance at each stage rather than only at the final delivery point, the system ensures communication accuracy while maintaining efficient processing through automated validation rules and criteria.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The communication management system implements feedback mechanisms that monitor communication progress through various stages and automatically trigger quality assurance checks when specific conditions are met. The system provides real-time feedback on communication status, timeliness, and quality metrics, enabling dynamic adjustment of processing priorities to balance accuracy requirements with time constraints.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If timeliness thresholds are set strictly to meet regulatory requirements, then communication delivery compliance is ensured, but flexibility in handling varying communication priorities and channel speeds is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveregulatory complianceVSAvoiddelivery timing flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements dynamic timeliness threshold management that allows delivery deadlines to be adjusted based on communication priority, channel characteristics, and real-time processing conditions. While regulatory minimum thresholds are maintained to ensure compliance, the system can flexibly prioritize communications and adjust timing parameters within acceptable ranges to optimize delivery across different channels with varying speeds and requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20250373485A1Comprehensive and intelligent communication tracking system
Publication Date: 2025.12.04 BANK OF AMERICA CORP
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AI summary

A comprehensive and centralized system for managing and tracking communications being delivered through both digital communications channels and physical communication channels. A centralized computing hub receives communication requests from originating systems of record or via user input. In response to receiving a communication request, content is generated or otherwise obtained and quality assurance checks are performed to assure that the content meets the requirements of the originating system of record and is applicable to the intended communication recipient. Once the quality checks have been performed and the content is deemed verified, delivery of the communications is orchestrated in accordance with the chosen communication channel. The timeliness of the communications is tracked throughout the system and alerts are generated in response to the timeliness exceeding thresholds. Thresholds are intelligently determined on a continuous basis using rolling averages of previous communications that result in predictions of future communication averages.