Enterprise Priority Manager for Cross-Application Task Scheduling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Knowledge workers face challenges in balancing competing tasks and priorities across multiple applications and resources, with existing workflow and calendar management systems failing to integrate user needs and enterprise goals effectively, leading to inefficient task scheduling and resource allocation.
Innovation Solution
A computer-based system that provides priority-based automation, dynamic context switching, disparate application integration, and workstation automation to manage and prioritize enterprise, workgroup, and individual goals, allowing for cross-application and cross-platform commitment management while respecting user work states.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional workflow or calendar based applications are used to manage tasks, then task management functionality is provided, but the applications operate in isolation from other enterprise applications and user needs, leading to poor integration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple isolated workflow and calendar applications into a single integrated enterprise goal engine that consolidates task management, scheduling, and priority management functions. This engine receives inputs from heterogeneous applications and users, processes them through a unified prioritization framework, and provides coordinated outputs, thereby improving integration capability while managing complexity through consolidation rather than multiplication of separate systems
Solution Approach 2:
The enterprise goal engine is designed as a universal system that handles multiple types of inputs (enterprise goals, departmental objectives, personal tasks) from diverse sources (workflow applications, calendar systems, user devices) through a single prioritization and scheduling interface. This multi-functional engine replaces the need for separate specialized applications, enhancing adaptability across different enterprise contexts
2Ease of operation
If e-mail interface is used as single point of contact to drive employees toward enterprise goals, then communication channel is provided, but the interface was never designed for use as prioritization and dynamic scheduling tool
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces the enterprise goal engine as an intermediary system between e-mail communication and task execution. The engine captures prioritization and scheduling requirements from e-mail inputs, processes them through structured evaluation frameworks, and translates them into actionable scheduled tasks. This intermediary layer enables e-mail to serve dual purposes as both communication channel and scheduling input source, improving productivity without sacrificing accessibility
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables automatic prioritization and scheduling of tasks derived from e-mail communications without requiring manual intervention. The enterprise goal engine autonomously evaluates incoming e-mail messages against enterprise goals and user capacities, automatically assigns priorities, and schedules tasks, thereby transforming the e-mail interface into an effective prioritization tool while maintaining ease of operation
3Adaptability or versatility
If cross-application knowledge worker juggles competing priorities from multiple sources, then user flexibility is maintained, but the user is constantly overwhelmed by uncorrelated priorities without integrated view
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex priority management problem into distinct evaluation dimensions: enterprise goal alignment, departmental objective contribution, user capacity assessment, and deadline urgency. The enterprise goal engine processes inputs through these segmented evaluation stages, providing users with a structured view of competing priorities that maintains flexibility while improving task completion efficiency through systematic analysis
4Ease of operation
If user priorities are divorced from enterprise goals and user capabilities, then individual autonomy is preserved, but the priorities become uncorrelated and difficult to respond to on time
Solution Approach 1:
The enterprise goal engine implements continuous feedback loops that monitor user capacities, enterprise goal changes, and task progress. The system dynamically adjusts priority assignments based on real-time feedback about user availability and enterprise requirements, ensuring that user autonomy is preserved while maintaining reliable deadline adherence through adaptive recalibration of priorities and schedules
Data Source
AI summary
Prioritizing workload and tasks by first determining if a prioritization state change is necessary, and if so setting priorities to change the prioritization state, and if not examining prioritization state determining inputs, calculating new prioritization states, and updating prioritization states. Next interrupts are processes and prioritization states are updates. The resulting settings and prioritization states are examines, new prioritization states calculated, the new prioritization states compared with existing prioritization states, and the prioritization states changed as a function of present prioritization states and calculated new prioritization states. As a last step either a new prioritization state is set and saved, or the existing prioritization states saved.