Imminent Interaction Search Prioritization Across International Databases

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Solution Overview

Problem

E-commerce systems often limit user access to interaction items due to geographic assumptions, leading to suboptimal availability and increased costs, and existing methods consume excessive computing resources without optimizing international interactions.

Innovation Solution

A system that monitors user activity to identify imminent interactions, searches international databases based on a prioritized order of countries using machine learning, and provides recommendations for lower-cost international interactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the system continuously searches international databases for all users, then international interaction opportunities are maximized, but computing resources are excessively consumed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinternational interaction availabilityVSAvoidcomputing resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by monitoring user activity patterns and determining when interactions are imminent before initiating database searches. This allows the system to prepare and execute searches only when necessary, rather than continuously, thereby reducing computing resource consumption while maintaining international interaction availability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements periodic action by searching international databases only at specific intervals triggered by user activity patterns rather than continuously. Searches are initiated periodically when imminent interactions are detected, optimizing the balance between resource consumption and service availability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

2Speed

If the system searches all international databases immediately, then interaction options are provided in real-time, but system response time and resource efficiency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinteraction recommendation speedVSAvoidsystem resource efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system determines imminent interactions through preliminary monitoring of user activity patterns before initiating database searches. This preliminary assessment allows the system to provide recommendations at the optimal moment without requiring continuous searching, maintaining fast response times while improving resource efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses self-service by leveraging user-generated activity data to automatically identify when searches are needed. The monitoring of user patterns and automatic determination of imminent interactions enable the system to serve itself in deciding when to allocate computing resources, improving both speed and efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system provides comprehensive international interaction recommendations, then user cost savings are maximized, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinteraction recommendation comprehensivenessVSAvoidsystem operational complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system determines imminent interactions through preliminary analysis of user activity patterns before generating recommendations. This preliminary step simplifies the overall process by filtering out cases where comprehensive searches are unnecessary, reducing system complexity while maintaining comprehensiveness when it matters most.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by providing comprehensive recommendations only in specific contexts where user activity indicates imminent interactions. Rather than uniformly applying complex analysis to all users at all times, the system concentrates comprehensive resources locally where needed, reducing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20250371617A1Prioritized database search based on imminent interaction

Publication Date: 2025.12.04 CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC

AI summary

In some implementations, a system may monitor online activity of a user on a user device and determine that the user is about to perform an imminent interaction associated with a domestic interaction item. The system may identify a domestic interaction amount associated with the domestic interaction item. The system may search one or more international databases for an international interaction item corresponding to the domestic interaction item and based on a prioritized order of international countries associated with the international database(s). The system may determine, based on a currency exchange rate, that an international interaction amount associated with the international interaction item is less than the domestic interaction amount. The system may transmit, to the user device, international interaction item data indicating the international interaction item, the international interaction amount, and an associated international interaction party.