Financial Form Completion via Webinar Navigation Path

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Solution Overview

Problem

Completing financial forms accurately and efficiently is challenging due to their complexity and the need to report multiple financial events, often requiring extensive knowledge and varying levels of user expertise, which can lead to errors and increased time consumption.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that generates a navigation path using a webinar engine, navigation path engine, and management engine to guide users through completing financial forms by selecting financial events and utilizing associated webinars, which provide interactive seminars to fill out the forms, taking into account user confidence and mood levels.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users complete financial forms directly without guidance, then they can finish the forms quickly, but accuracy decreases due to complexity and lack of expertise

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveaccuracyVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces webinars as intermediary educational content between the user and the financial form. These webinars provide expert guidance on financial events and form completion, acting as a mediator that transfers knowledge from experts to users, thereby improving accuracy without requiring users to spend excessive time studying complex financial concepts independently

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by generating a customized navigation path and selecting relevant webinars before the user attempts to complete the form. This preparatory step ensures users receive targeted educational content about specific financial events they need to report, improving accuracy while minimizing time investment by avoiding generic or irrelevant information

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If comprehensive guidance is provided for all financial events, then accuracy improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveaccuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the comprehensive guidance system into modular components: a navigation path generator that creates customized sequences, a webinar selector that chooses relevant educational content, and a form completion interface. This segmentation allows the system to provide comprehensive guidance only when and where needed, rather than overwhelming users with all possible information simultaneously, thereby managing system complexity while maintaining accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adapts the level and type of guidance provided based on the user's specific needs, the particular financial events they are reporting, and their progress through the form. The navigation path and webinar selections are not static but are generated and adjusted in real-time, allowing comprehensive guidance to be delivered efficiently without requiring a rigid, overly complex system structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Adaptability or versatility

If generic financial form guidance is provided, then system complexity remains low, but adaptability to individual user needs decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user needsVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary customization by analyzing the user's specific financial events and generating a tailored navigation path before the user begins form completion. This preliminary action ensures the guidance system is adapted to individual needs from the start, selecting only the relevant webinars and information necessary for that specific user's situation, thereby achieving high adaptability without requiring complex real-time adjustments throughout the process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS7753258B1Method and apparatus for completing a financial form
Publication Date: 2010.07.13 INTUIT INC
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AI summary

A system and method for completing a financial form including generating a navigation path by selecting a plurality of financial events, where the navigation path is used as a framework to complete the financial form, selecting a webinar event from the plurality of financial events in the navigation path, where the webinar event is one of the plurality of financial events associated with at least one webinar related to one of the plurality of financial events, and completing at least a portion of the financial form using the at least one webinar.