Data Task Station Reconfiguration for Real-Time Decision Flow

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current organizational systems face inefficiencies and redundancies due to fragmented decision-making processes, lack of real-time information, and poor communication across departments, leading to duplication of efforts, increased errors, and resource wastage in sectors like healthcare, manufacturing, and construction.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented system with an array of interactive data processing stations that enables real-time data sharing and automation, ensuring only relevant information is displayed to authorized users, and automates data transfer between stations based on predetermined requirements, preventing incomplete or outdated information from being used for decision-making.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If teams make decisions simultaneously in parallel without centralized coordination, then individual team productivity is maintained, but organizational efficiency deteriorates due to duplication of efforts and resource wastage

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveindividual team productivityVSAvoidorganizational efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by establishing a centralized digital platform that pre-coordinates decision-making sequences, data sharing protocols, and resource allocation plans before teams begin their work, preventing duplication and resource wastage while maintaining individual productivity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If data is segmented across different departments and updated independently, then departmental autonomy is preserved, but information completeness deteriorates leading to outdated or incomplete records

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedepartmental autonomyVSAvoidinformation completeness
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges previously segmented departmental data into a unified digital platform where all departments contribute their data while maintaining their autonomy, creating a centralized repository that ensures information completeness and real-time accessibility without compromising departmental independence

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Productivity

If multiple teams contact the same customer concurrently without coordination, then customer service coverage is increased, but resource allocation deteriorates due to wasted payroll hours and duplicated efforts

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer service coverageVSAvoidresource allocation
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the centralized platform tracks which teams have contacted which customers, providing real-time visibility that prevents duplicate contact attempts and optimizes resource allocation while maintaining comprehensive customer service coverage

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12106849B2Digital data task stations reconfiguring data connection points
Publication Date: 2024.10.01 HOPKINS HEATHER
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AI summary

A first data task station which has a first predetermined data content requirement. A data content receiver receives data content. A first activator enables the data content receiver through a data intake of data task station, to associate with a first data content. Movement of the first data content to an automator site of the first data task station, actuates the screener. A second activator of the computer, by operation of the automator, enables, after the first pre-determined data content satisfies the screen against said first pre-determined data content requirement, a second data task station associated with a second predetermined data content requirement. A disabler, by operation of the automator, after the first pre-determined data content satisfies the screen against the first pre-determined data content requirement, disables the further screen of the first data content of said first data station.