Unified Family Activity Scheduling Platform
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current solutions lack a digital platform to manage the complex scheduling and enrollment of activities across family members, particularly in traditional, divorced, and blended families, and fail to comply with legal requirements, as well as tailor and market activities effectively based on enrollment data.
Innovation Solution
An online computer platform that represents familial relationships, enabling digital enrollment and scheduling, generating family and child-specific calendars, and allowing activity providers to search and tailor activities without personal identifiable information, while ensuring compliance with legal regulations through electronic forms and signatures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual enrollment and scheduling processes are used, then legal compliance requirements can be met through human interaction, but the complexity of managing activities across divorced and blended families increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an online computer platform as an intermediary system that manages enrollment and scheduling across multiple families. The platform includes a database structured to represent familial relationships, activity providers, and enrollment information, along with software that automatically processes enrollments, generates calendars, and handles compliance requirements, thereby reducing the complexity of manual coordination among divorced and blended families.
2Productivity
If enrollment information is collected and stored digitally, then activity providers can search and tailor activities efficiently, but personal identifiable information security risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts personal identifiable information from the enrollment data stored in the database. The system structure separates personally identifiable information from activity-related information, allowing activity providers to search and match activities based on non-identifiable characteristics such as age, interests, and availability without accessing sensitive personal data, thereby reducing security risks while maintaining matching efficiency.
3Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive enrollment information is collected for all family members, then activity tailoring and marketing can be improved, but data privacy and compliance complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by collecting and storing different types of information at appropriate levels of detail. The database structure captures comprehensive enrollment information including family relationships, activities, and preferences, but the software selectively processes and displays only the necessary information for specific purposes. Activity providers can access detailed information for tailoring activities while compliance requirements are met through controlled access and automated processes, reducing overall complexity.
4Ease of operation
If multiple parent users can independently enroll shared children in activities, then family scheduling flexibility improves, but coordination complexity and potential conflicts increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the enrollment capabilities of multiple parent users into a single unified online platform. The database structure represents familial relationships to allow multiple parents to access and manage enrollment for shared children through the same system. The software coordinates enrollments automatically, preventing duplicate registrations and conflicts, thereby maintaining ease of operation for parents while reducing coordination complexity through centralized management.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments provide a technical solution that facilitates the digital enrollment and complex scheduling of activities across families, including blended families. The embodiments register, through a computer system, familial relationships within a family and represent the familial relationships in structured data stored in memory. Based on the represented familial relationships, the embodiments receive at the system information for enrolling children of the family in activities, such as via online provider-specific and state licensing forms, and store the enrollment information associated to the represented familial relationships in the memory. Upon user command, the embodiments search the stored enrollment information based on the represented familial relationships to determine a schedule of enrolled activities across each of the children. In response to searching, the embodiments determine a new activity suitable for a given child and at an available time in the determined schedule and through the system notify a parent user of the system of the new activity.