Financial Coverage Review System With Gap Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Individuals and entities often lack awareness of available financial coverage products and their relative importance, leading to potential gaps in financial protection and missed opportunities for discounts.

Innovation Solution

A system that provides a comprehensive financial coverage review and recommendation service, using a network environment with a processor and databases to identify gaps in insurance coverage, generate personalized recommendations, and prioritize actions for improving financial security, incorporating graphical interfaces and customizable visual displays to highlight product significance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If a comprehensive financial coverage review system is implemented, then awareness of available financial products and gaps in coverage is improved, but system complexity and resource requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveawareness of financial coverage productsVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically retrieves coverage information from multiple sources, generates gap analysis, and provides recommendations without requiring manual intervention. The system serves itself by autonomously collecting data, processing information, and delivering insights to users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs multiple functions including retrieving coverage information, analyzing gaps, generating recommendations, and prioritizing actions across different financial products. A single integrated system handles diverse financial coverage types rather than requiring separate systems for each product category.

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

2Loss of information

If detailed financial coverage analysis is provided, then understanding of relative importance of financial protections is improved, but information processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveunderstanding of financial protection importanceVSAvoidanalysis time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-retrieves coverage information from multiple sources and pre-generates gap analysis and recommendations. By performing these actions in advance rather than in real-time, the system reduces the time users wait for results while still providing comprehensive analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system divides the financial coverage analysis into separate modules: retrieving coverage information, identifying gaps, generating recommendations, and prioritizing actions. This segmentation allows each module to process specific tasks independently and efficiently, reducing overall processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Ease of operation

If personalized recommendations are generated, then ability to take advantage of available financial products is improved, but data processing and recommendation generation complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to take advantage of financial productsVSAvoidrecommendation generation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses feedback loops to continuously refine recommendations based on user responses and coverage changes. By incorporating feedback mechanisms, the system adapts to user needs and improves recommendation accuracy without requiring complete re-analysis of all financial data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters such as coverage thresholds, gap criteria, and recommendation priorities based on user profiles and financial situations. By adjusting these parameters dynamically, the system personalizes recommendations without building entirely separate analysis models for each user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10523649B1Product and coverage review and recommendation
Publication Date: 2019.12.31 ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY
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AI summary

Systems, methods, and apparatus for product and coverage review and recommendation are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises at least one processor associated with a first provider, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to send an invitation to initiate a financial coverage review for one or more entities, wherein the invitation includes an electronic network link to a questionnaire location, generate, in response to detecting navigation, by an entity of the one or more entities and through the electronic network link, to the questionnaire location, a questionnaire customized to the entity by querying one or more databases to identify existing financial coverages of the entity, wherein the questionnaire comprises questions regarding the existing financial coverages of the entity, determine a plurality of financial products to recommend to the entity based on one or more responses to the questionnaire received from the entity, assign, to the plurality of financial products and based on at least one of an attribute of the entity or whether the entity currently owns a type of financial product corresponding to a first financial product of the plurality of financial products through a second provider different from the first provider, priority information.