Intraday Resource Management Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing intraday resource availability is challenging due to rapid fluctuations and the difficulty in tracking pooled resources, with limited tools to prevent overconsumption and ensure resource sufficiency.
Innovation Solution
A server computer system provides an intraday resource availability interface with a resource usage graph and widgets for modifying parameters, detecting transfers, and updating resource availability indicators, allowing clients to reserve resources and manage intraday transfers based on processing conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If resources are pooled and rapidly fluctuating availability is allowed, then resource flexibility and efficiency are improved, but tracking and managing total resource availability becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors resource transfers and updates the resource availability indicator in real-time, providing feedback to users about current resource status. This enables the system to handle rapid fluctuations while maintaining accurate tracking through continuous updates rather than static snapshots.
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary between multiple clients and the pooled resources, centralizing the tracking and management function. The server maintains the authoritative source of truth for resource availability and distributes this information to clients, simplifying the tracking complexity from individual client perspectives.
2Measurement precision
If real-time resource monitoring is implemented, then resource availability accuracy is improved, but system complexity and overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically monitors and updates resource availability without requiring external intervention. The server self-updates the resource availability indicator based on detected transfers, eliminating the need for complex external monitoring systems while maintaining high accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The resource availability indicator is continuously updated as transfers occur, rather than being updated periodically or on demand. This continuous update mechanism ensures always-accurate information is available while the updates are triggered only by actual transfer events, minimizing unnecessary system overhead.
3Reliability
If users are provided with tools to prevent overconsumption, then resource sufficiency is improved, but user interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The resource availability indicator provides continuous visual feedback to users about remaining resource levels, enabling them to understand consumption patterns and adjust their behavior to prevent overconsumption. The feedback is presented in a simple, intuitive format that does not complicate the user interface.
Data Source
AI summary
Computer systems and methods for managing resources are described. In an aspect, a method includes: providing, to a client device, an intraday resource availability interface, the intraday resource availability interface including a resource usage graph for one or more accounts, the resource usage graph having a time axis including a time period that includes a day start time and a current time, the resource usage graph including a resource availability indicator indicating a total amount of resources over the time period, including borrowed resources, available for use in association with the one or more accounts, the intraday resource availability interface including one or more widgets configured to accept input to modify a parameter affecting the resource usage graph; and responsive to activation of the one or more widgets receiving, from the client device, a message requesting modification of the resource usage graph; generating a modified resource usage graph based on the request; and sending the modified resource usage graph to the client device for display thereon.