Interactive Map Interface with Real-Time Data Normalization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional digital distribution platforms face challenges in managing and integrating disparate data types with real-time updates, leading to transmission and data handling delays, errors, and difficulties in providing meaningful integration and user-customizable data distribution without significant computational burden or system complexity.

Innovation Solution

A data distribution system that integrates and normalizes market and location data for display on an interactive map interface, allowing users to customize data presentation and interaction, with features like drag-and-drop functionality and real-time updates.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional platforms distribute digital data content from multiple data sources with different formats and requirements, then the platform can provide diverse data content, but it becomes increasingly technically difficult to continually update the interactive user interface with up-to-date data content in real-time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata content diversityVSAvoiddata update delay
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments data processing into modular components: data reception modules for different sources, normalization modules for format conversion, and presentation modules for output. This allows independent processing of each data stream without blocking real-time updates to the user interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary normalization layer between diverse data sources and the user interface. This intermediary component standardizes data formats and handles transformations, enabling real-time data flow from multiple sources without direct complex interactions, thus maintaining update speed while supporting data diversity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If the platform processes and normalizes data from multiple sources with different formats, then data integration quality improves, but computational burden and system complexity increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata integration qualityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs universal normalization modules that can handle multiple data formats through a single standardized interface. These multi-functional components perform format detection, conversion, and validation in a unified process, improving integration quality while avoiding the need for separate complex processing chains for each data type.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies parameter-based normalization where data formats are transformed by changing specific parameters (data types, units, structures) according to predefined rules. This approach maintains high integration quality through systematic parameter transformation while keeping the system relatively simple by using consistent transformation logic across different data sources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Loss of information

If disparate data types are integrated in an intelligent manner to provide meaningful information, then the value of integrated data increases, but the difficulty of integration increases especially with real-time rapidly changing data

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation valueVSAvoidintegration difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary normalization and standardization of disparate data types before integration. By pre-processing data to establish common structures and formats, the system enables meaningful integration of real-time data without requiring complex integration logic during runtime, thus preserving information value while reducing integration difficulty.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP4617984A1Interactive map interface incorporating customizable geospatial data
Publication Date: 2025.09.17 INTERCONTINENTAL EXCHANGE HOLDINGS INC
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AI summary

A data distribution system configured to receive market data from one or more market data sources, associated location data from one or more location data sources, and polygons from one or more polygon sources. The system may normalize the location data and the polygons such that a format of the normalized location data matches a format of the normalized polygons. Upon receiving, via an interactive graphical user interface (GUI), user input comprising a data request, the interactive GUI may determine that the data request comprises at least a portion of the normalized location data. The interactive GUI may augment the normalized location data with one or more normalized polygons, generate an augmented presentation package comprising the one or more normalized polygons, and display the augmented presentation package, such that the one or more normalized polygons are presented on an interactive map interface.