Kiosk Aggregating Multi-Institution Financial Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumers with multiple financial accounts across various institutions face inefficiencies, requiring visits to multiple locations to manage and discuss their accounts, leading to time loss and unnecessary physical infrastructure for financial institutions.
Innovation Solution
A streamline bank financial network system that includes a database, customer service computing system, and customer kiosk, which uses machine-readable codes to aggregate and present financial account data from multiple institutions, allowing customers to select and manage their accounts at a single location, enabling real-time, up-to-date information access for customer service representatives.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If consumers visit multiple financial institution locations to manage their accounts, then they can access their financial accounts directly, but they lose time and financial institutions need to maintain multiple physical locations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized financial network system with kiosks as intermediaries between consumers and multiple financial institutions. The kiosk captures account data via machine-readable codes, aggregates information from multiple institutions, and presents it to consumers at a single location, eliminating the need to visit multiple branches while maintaining direct account access.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates digital copies of account information from multiple financial institutions and presents them through the kiosk interface. The machine-readable code captures account data, which is then replicated and displayed across different institution profiles within the single kiosk system, allowing consumers to access all accounts without physical visits to each institution.
2Ease of operation
If financial institutions establish multiple physical locations to serve customers with multiple accounts, then customers can access their accounts conveniently, but institutions incur high costs for property and building maintenance
Solution Approach 1:
The kiosk system performs multiple functions within a single physical location: it serves as a service point for multiple different financial institutions simultaneously, handling account access, information display, and transaction processing for various institutions. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate physical locations for each institution while maintaining convenient customer access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the service functions of multiple financial institutions into a single centralized kiosk system. By combining account data from multiple institutions into one interface and processing all transactions through one location, the system consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate physical locations, reducing infrastructure needs while maintaining service accessibility.
3Adaptability or versatility
If consumers manage multiple financial accounts across different institutions, then they have access to diverse financial services, but they require visits to multiple locations increasing time loss
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the information display by financial institution, showing each institution's accounts and services separately within the unified kiosk interface. This segmentation allows consumers to access diverse financial services from multiple institutions while keeping the information organized by source, maintaining service diversity without requiring multiple visits.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized kiosk system acts as an intermediary that aggregates and presents diverse financial services from multiple institutions in one location. The machine-readable code capture mechanism and centralized database allow the kiosk to retrieve and display various financial account types and services from different institutions, providing service diversity without the time loss of visiting multiple locations.
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AI summary
A streamline banking system includes a customer kiosk having a photographic element and a processor. The processor is programmed to capture an image with the photographic element and determine that the captured image comprises an image of a machine-readable code. The processor decodes the machine-readable code and extracts customer financial account data therefrom. The customer financial account data is associated with one or more financial institutions. The processor retrieves information associated with one or more financial product offerings offered by the financial institutions. Each of the financial institutions is presented to a customer along with the respective financial accounts and the respective financial product offerings. The customer selects one or more of the financial accounts and the financial product offerings. The customer kiosk then transmits to the customer service computing system the customer selection.