Location-Based Compliance Data Retrieval for Multi-Jurisdiction Tasks

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Solution Overview

Problem

Manually tracking compliance with complex and location-dependent regulatory requirements is time-consuming and prone to errors, especially when multiple jurisdictions are involved.

Innovation Solution

A location-based regulatory compliance tool utilizing a back-end application computer server that retrieves regulatory compliance parameters from a data store based on user-input locations and updates an interactive graphical user interface display with relevant information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual tracking of regulatory compliance is used, then flexibility in understanding and interpreting requirements is maintained, but accuracy and time efficiency deteriorate due to human error and time-consuming processes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance accuracyVSAvoidtime consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual mechanical tracking processes with an automated computer-based system that retrieves regulatory compliance information electronically from databases and presents it through software interfaces, eliminating human error and time consumption associated with manual tracking

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates electronic copies of regulatory requirements and compliance data from external sources and stores them in accessible databases, allowing rapid retrieval and updating without manual reproduction of compliance information

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Adaptability or versatility

If comprehensive regulatory data for multiple jurisdictions is maintained, then compliance coverage is improved, but system complexity and data management difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance coverageVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal computer-based platform that can handle multiple jurisdictions and regulatory requirements through a single system interface, allowing the same software to adapt to different compliance regimes without requiring separate manual tracking systems for each jurisdiction

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces electronic databases and software intermediaries that manage and organize comprehensive regulatory data from multiple jurisdictions, reducing the complexity of direct data management by providing structured access layers and automated retrieval mechanisms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Speed

If real-time regulatory compliance information is provided, then responsiveness to changing conditions is improved, but data retrieval and processing speed requirements increase system demands

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresponse speedVSAvoidsystem demands

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary actions by pre-retrieving and storing regulatory compliance information in electronic databases before it is needed, allowing the system to provide real-time responses by simply querying pre-processed data rather than performing complex analysis at the moment of need

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces slow manual information retrieval with automated electronic data access, using computer-based search and retrieval mechanisms that instantly access pre-stored regulatory information and present it through software interfaces

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS12488405B2System and method providing location based regulatory compliance tool

Publication Date: 2025.12.02 HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE CO

AI summary

Some embodiments are directed to a regulatory compliance tool implemented via a back-end application computer server. A location based regulatory compliance data store may contain electronic records associated with a set of locations. Each electronic record may include, for example, an electronic record identifier and at least one regulatory compliance parameter. The computer server may receive, from a user via an interactive graphical user interface display, a set of task indications associated with regulatory compliance. The computer server may also receive, from the user, a selected location from a set of potential locations. The computer server may then retrieve, from the location based regulatory compliance data store, information about the at least one regulatory compliance parameter associated with the selected location. The computer server may then update the display based on the retrieved information about the at least one regulatory compliance parameter associated with the selected location.