Geospatial Territory Assignment File Updates for Data Freshness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for updating territory assignments in data storage are complex, time-consuming, prone to errors, and result in stale and inaccurate data, affecting downstream processes and consuming excessive computing resources.
Innovation Solution
An automated process using geospatial relationships to identify suitable territory assignments for new entities based on travel proximity, updating territory assignment files in real-time to ensure data freshness and accuracy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If automated geospatial processing is implemented, then data accuracy and freshness are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a territory assignment file as an intermediary data structure that mediates between the geospatial database and downstream processes. This file stores pre-computed territory assignments and serves as a cache, allowing the system to provide accurate geospatial data without requiring complex real-time processing for every query, thus resolving the contradiction between data accuracy and system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary processing by automatically identifying new entities and computing their territory assignments in advance using geospatial relationships. This pre-computation is stored in the territory assignment file, eliminating the need for complex real-time calculations during downstream operations, thereby improving data accuracy while managing system complexity
2Productivity
If manual updating methods are used, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity and data freshness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service automation where the territory assignment process automatically detects new entities in the geospatial database, computes their assignments based on geospatial relationships, and updates the territory assignment file without human intervention. This self-updating mechanism dramatically improves productivity and data freshness while the automation handles the complexity, reducing the need for manual processes
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors the geospatial database for new entities and automatically triggers updates to the territory assignment file when changes are detected. This feedback loop ensures data freshness by continuously synchronizing the territory assignments with the current state of the geospatial database, improving productivity through automated real-time updates
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AI summary
In some implementations, a device may retrieve assignment data indicating territory assignments of a plurality of entities to a plurality of territories. The entities may have physical addresses in a plurality of serviced locations, and an entity may lack a territory assignment. The device may identify, for the serviced locations, respective travel times between the serviced locations and a location relating to a physical address for the entity. The device may identify a set of nearest entities in an order of travel proximity to the location according to the respective travel times. The device may monitor, during identifying of the set of nearest entities and in accordance with the territory assignments, respective counts of nearest entities for the plurality of territories, until a count of nearest entities for a territory satisfies a threshold. The device may generate updated assignment data to indicate an assignment of the entity to the territory.