Economic Development System for Community Interest Aggregation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems fail to efficiently aggregate and disseminate community interest data for business development, modification, or infrastructure improvement, making it difficult for entities to effectively address communal needs.

Innovation Solution

An economic development and collaboration system that allows users to identify and express interests through a mobile application and database, featuring engagement mechanisms, crowdfunding, and property valuation tools, enabling the creation, modification, and improvement of economic propositions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If online user activity data is collected and analyzed to provide insight on business development needs, then community interest identification is improved, but information accessibility and efficiency for dissemination to decision-makers deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunity interest informationVSAvoidinformation dissemination
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary system comprising a database and communication interface that bridges the gap between user activity data and decision-makers. The system automatically aggregates, stores, and disseminates community interest information to entities with power and resources, eliminating the inefficiency of manual information transfer while preserving data integrity and accessibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If a system is created to allow individuals to identify and express interests in economic propositions, then community engagement is improved, but system complexity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunity engagement capabilityVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal platform that handles multiple functions within a single system structure: data collection from user activities, storage in database, analysis of community interests, and dissemination to relevant entities. This multi-functional approach achieves high community engagement capability while avoiding the complexity of multiple separate systems.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system is segmented into distinct functional modules: a data collection layer capturing online user activities, a database layer for structured storage, an analysis layer for processing community interests, and a dissemination layer for communicating with decision-makers. This segmentation allows each component to be independently optimized while maintaining overall system simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Measurement precision

If data aggregation and analysis is performed on user online activities, then insight quality on business needs is improved, but information accessibility to decision-makers deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebusiness need analysis accuracyVSAvoidaccessible information
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent establishes a feedback loop where user activity data is continuously collected, analyzed for business development needs, and the results are disseminated back to decision-makers who can then take action. This closed-loop feedback system ensures that high-quality analytical insights are transformed into actionable information that remains accessible and useful to stakeholders.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11645667B2Economic development and collaboration system
Publication Date: 2023.05.09 NOEL SR JOHN C
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AI summary

An exemplary non-limiting embodiment of an economic development and collaboration system, which enables individuals within a community to efficiently identify and express their interests in one or more economic propositions, is disclosed herein. The economic development and collaboration system comprises a software application which is configured to allow users to uniquely interface with the one or more economic propositions. The system allows for its users to efficiently identify and express support or disapproval of one or more economic propositions. A variety of engagement mechanisms are provided by the economic development and collaboration system to assist users in democratizing their interests. The system allows for a variety of forms of financial support of each economic proposition and provides valuable statistical data which may be utilized by entrepreneurs, business owners, developers, lenders, investors, or public officials when considering whether to implement or support the implementation of one or more economic propositions.