Compliance Detection for Gift Transfers via Domain Rules

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems fail to effectively detect and prevent compliance violations when sending or receiving gifts via organizational domains, as compliance requirements can be confusing, difficult to find, or unavailable, leading to potential rule violations.

Innovation Solution

A system that detects potential compliance rules associated with gift transfers between senders and recipients, outputs relevant compliance rules for review, and prevents gift delivery if a violation is detected, using domain-specific, industry-specific, or default compliance requirements, and notifies administrators for approval.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If compliance requirements are made available and detectable, then compliance detection capability is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance detection capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary compliance detection system that acts as a mediator between users and compliance requirements. This system automatically retrieves, interprets, and applies compliance rules related to gift transfers, reducing the complexity burden on individual users while maintaining high compliance detection capability through automated intermediary processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-fetching and storing compliance requirements before they are needed. Compliance rules are retrieved and cached in advance, so when a gift transfer occurs, the system can immediately check compliance without real-time complexity, as the analytical work was performed beforehand

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If compliance rules are made accessible to users, then ease of operation is improved, but information overload increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance information accessibilityVSAvoidcompliance information volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by providing compliance information selectively rather than universally. The system identifies which specific compliance rules are relevant to each user's context (their organization, role, and the specific gift transfer) and presents only those localized rules, making compliance information accessible without overwhelming users with irrelevant data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

Compliance information is segmented into organized categories and hierarchical structures. The system breaks down complex compliance requirements into discrete, manageable segments that can be individually evaluated and presented to users in a structured format, improving accessibility while managing information volume

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Reliability

If gift transfers are blocked when compliance violations are detected, then compliance reliability is improved, but productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance enforcementVSAvoidgift transfer efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary compliance checks before gift transfers are finalized. By detecting potential violations in advance and providing users with opportunities to correct issues before completion, the system maintains compliance reliability while minimizing disruptions to productive gift transfers that would otherwise be valid

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms that notify users of compliance issues and guide them toward resolution. Rather than immediately blocking all potentially non-compliant transfers, the system provides feedback about specific concerns and allows users to address them, maintaining productivity for transfers that can be corrected while ensuring compliance for those that cannot

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11496366B2Compliance detection of gratitude-based message
Publication Date: 2022.11.08 APPLIED GRATITUDE INC
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AI summary

Provided are systems and methods for detecting whether an electronic gift violates compliance of the sender or the recipient. The system may rely on company-specific compliance rules. In addition, the system may enrich or compensate for missing company-specific rules with general industry compliance rules. In one example, the method may include identifying a domain name of a message associated with a transfer of value from a sender to a recipient, detecting one or more requirements that are associated with the domain name identified from the message, determining that the transfer of value is a possible violation of a requirement from among the one or more requirements that are associated with the domain name based on content of the requirement, and displaying information about the requirement.