Automated Customer Service Notification System for Credit Card Benefits

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Solution Overview

Problem

Customers are often unaware of the secondary benefits associated with their financial accounts, such as credit cards, due to complex verification and processing requirements, leading to underutilization of these services.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that uses processors and memory devices to receive customer and location data, identify eligible customer service options, and transmit notifications to client devices, facilitating the activation and use of secondary benefits by improving communication channels between customers and their financial service providers.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If complicated verification and processing requirements are implemented for secondary benefits, then service reliability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice reliabilityVSAvoidease of operation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically verifying customer eligibility for secondary benefits in the background before the customer needs to use them. The notification system proactively informs customers of their eligibility status before they attempt to claim benefits, so verification is completed in advance rather than creating obstacles at the point of use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically matching customers with eligible secondary benefits without requiring manual verification by customers. The notification system allows customers to simply receive and act on notifications about their eligibility, while the complex verification processes are handled automatically by the system in the background.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Productivity

If automated notification systems are implemented, then productivity is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The notification system is designed as a universal platform that handles multiple types of secondary benefits (travel insurance, extended warranties, price protection, etc.) through a single integrated system. This multi-functional approach improves productivity by consolidating what would otherwise require separate verification and notification processes for each benefit type, while the modular architecture manages complexity through standardized interfaces.

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

Data Source

PatentUS10970736B2Systems and methods for providing a customer service
Publication Date: 2021.04.06 CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC
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AI summary

The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for providing customer service. The system may include one or more memory devices storing software instructions. The system may also include one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to receive customer data and location data from a client device. The one or more processors may also execute the software instructions to identify a customer and a merchant based on the received data. The one or more processors may also execute the software instructions to determine an applicable customer service option based on at least the identified merchant and the identified customer, the customer service option including at least an option to activate a credit card secondary benefit, and transmit a notification to the client device, the notification including the customer service option when the identified customer is eligible for the determined customer service option.