Dynamic Task Sequencing for Resource Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Legacy approaches to resource delivery are inefficient in meeting highly restrictive time constraints, particularly in scenarios requiring the timely movement of resources from one location to another, as they often rely on periodic delivery along a set route and are incapable of handling time-sensitive acquisitions.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus and method that generate ordered tasks based on request parameters such as locations and timing constraints, allowing for the efficient sequencing and updating of tasks in response to request data objects, and display these tasks on a mobile device associated with a network response asset, enabling real-time adjustments and interleaving of tasks from multiple requests.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If legacy periodic delivery approaches are used along a set route, then system simplicity is maintained, but the ability to meet highly restrictive time constraints deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedelivery system complexityVSAvoidtime constraint compliance
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically generates and updates ordered task sets based on real-time request parameters, timing constraints, and asset locations. The task sequencing is not fixed but adapts continuously to changing conditions, allowing the system to meet restrictive time constraints while maintaining operational simplicity through automated dynamic optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Loss of time

If task sequencing is generated based on real-time request parameters and asset input data, then time constraint compliance is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime constraint complianceVSAvoidtask management system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates ordered task sets by extracting request parameters from request data objects and integrating asset input data from mobile devices. This self-service capability eliminates the need for manual task sequencing while meeting time constraints, managing complexity through automated information processing rather than human coordination.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system receives real-time input data from mobile devices associated with network response assets and uses this feedback to generate and update ordered task sets. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables dynamic adaptation to changing conditions, ensuring time constraint compliance while managing system complexity through automated real-time optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If multiple independent request data objects are processed with interleaved task sets, then resource utilization efficiency is improved, but task sequencing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource utilization efficiencyVSAvoidmulti-request task coordination complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges multiple independent request data objects into a unified ordered task set by extracting parameters from each request and integrating them with asset input data. This consolidation approach improves resource utilization efficiency by coordinating multiple requests through a single optimized task sequence, managing complexity through unified task management rather than separate handling of each request.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11403133B1System and method for managing request-to-task translation and sequencing
Publication Date: 2022.08.02 BYTEDANCE INC
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AI summary

An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided to translate request data objects into ordered sequence of tasks to be performed by network response assets and related systems to allow for the efficient movement of network resources and other resources in high-volume network environments. In some example implementations, otherwise unrelated request data objects and related parameters are interleaved into an ordered sequence of tasks, and a renderable object associated therewith is provided to a user interface of a mobile system associated with a network response asset. Location information such as triangulated position information associated with one or more mobile devices, along with other system characteristics may be used to ascertain system status and otherwise effectuate request translation.