Unified Social Network for Financial Product Recommendation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Customers face difficulties in discovering and evaluating financial products and services across multiple institutions, leading to inefficiencies in accessing relevant information and accurate recommendations, as existing systems lack a unified platform to leverage user input and feedback effectively.

Innovation Solution

A unified electronic social network system that computes user input scores based on feedback, generates user profiles, and employs machine learning to provide personalized recommendations for financial products and services, allowing users to rate and review transactions while enabling feedback and data quality assessment.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If user feedback and reviews are collected from multiple sources to improve recommendation accuracy, then the quality of recommendations improves, but the data processing time and storage requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the most relevant features from user feedback and review data using natural language processing and sentiment analysis. Instead of processing all raw data, the system identifies and extracts key sentiment indicators, review scores, and relevant keywords, significantly reducing processing time while maintaining recommendation accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent combines multiple data sources (user reviews, feedback, transaction data) into a unified recommendation model. By merging these diverse data types into a single processed dataset with standardized features, the system improves recommendation quality without proportionally increasing processing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

If comprehensive user profiles are created using transaction data from multiple financial institutions to improve personalization, then recommendation relevance improves, but system complexity and data integration difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal data processing framework that handles multiple data sources (transactions, reviews, feedback) through a single standardized interface. This multi-functional architecture allows the system to process diverse data types uniformly, improving personalization while controlling system complexity through reuse of common processing components.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces intermediary processing layers including natural language processing modules and sentiment analysis components that act as mediators between raw multi-source data and the recommendation engine. These intermediaries standardize and simplify complex data integration by converting diverse inputs into unified feature representations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If all user input data is stored and processed to ensure complete information availability, then prediction accuracy improves, but storage requirements and processing overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprediction accuracyVSAvoiddata storage volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential features and sentiment indicators from complete user input data for storage and processing. By applying natural language processing to identify and store only key information (review scores, sentiment polarity, relevant keywords) rather than all raw text, the system maintains prediction accuracy while significantly reducing storage requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS20240311932A1Demand prediction based on user input valuation
Publication Date: 2024.09.19 WELLS FARGO BANK NA
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AI summary

An electronic social network can be provided that unifies products and services of one or more entities, such as financial institutions. Users of the social network can provide input regarding one or more products or services. Feedback can be solicited from other users of the social network regarding the input, and a score can be generated for a user that represents a level of agreement of the other users. A recommendation is generated and conveyed to users of the social network based on the score and user profile of the user associated with the score.