Item Compliance Information for Digital Rule Pre-Screening

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing computer systems face inefficiencies in processing and resource management for potential relationship instances due to unknown effects of digital rules, leading to increased resource usage and canceled instances.

Innovation Solution

A system that generates item sensed data to identify items and retrieve resource information, allowing users to view potential relationship instances and compliance with digital rules, and suggests items that better conform to resource use priorities, thereby reducing unnecessary processing and resource usage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If the system processes all potential relationship instances without pre-screening, then complete resource information is available for all instances, but processing resources and time are excessively consumed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresource information availabilityVSAvoidprocessing efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by generating item sensed data and identifying items before full relationship instance processing. Resource information is retrieved and digital rule compliance is checked in advance, allowing the system to screen out non-compliant items before they consume substantial processing resources, thus resolving the contradiction between information completeness and processing efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts and evaluates compliance information separately from the main relationship instance processing flow. By taking out the compliance checking function and performing it independently on identified items, the system can filter out non-compliant relationship instances without affecting the processing of compliant ones, improving overall productivity while maintaining information availability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Productivity

If the system allows all relationship instances to proceed without compliance checking, then relationship instance formation is rapid, but resource cancellation occurs due to unknown digital rule effects

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverelationship instance formation rateVSAvoidrelationship instance completion rate

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary compliance checking by comparing item characteristics against digital rules before relationship instances are fully established. This advance screening prevents non-compliant instances from proceeding to resource allocation, thereby maintaining high formation rates for compliant instances while improving the completion rate by eliminating non-compliant ones before they can be cancelled

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by providing compliance information to users about potential relationship instances. This feedback mechanism allows users to understand digital rule effects before committing resources, enabling informed decisions that increase relationship instance completion rates while maintaining efficient processing of valid instances

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If the system provides detailed compliance information to users, then users can make informed decisions about relationship instances, but data transmission and storage resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser decision-making capabilityVSAvoiddata transmission volume

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by providing compliance information selectively based on user needs and specific relationship instance contexts. Rather than transmitting all possible compliance data for all items, the system tailors the information provided to the specific digital rules applicable to each item and relationship type, reducing overall data transmission while maintaining user decision-making capability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The compliance information is segmented into discrete, manageable units corresponding to specific digital rules and their effects. This segmentation allows the system to transmit only relevant compliance information for each relationship instance rather than comprehensive datasets, reducing storage and transmission requirements while preserving user ability to make informed decisions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12488372B2Independently procurable item compliance information

Publication Date: 2025.12.02 AVALARA INC

AI summary

Systems and methods electronically provide information regarding digital rules related to a potential relationship instance. Users often wish to know which digital rules apply to a specified item before engaging in a relationship instance with a host entity regarding the item. The system and methods described herein allow a computing facility to identify an item and receive resource information related to the item and the digital rules applicable to the item.