Managed Account Continuum for Dynamic Financial Product Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current financial service systems lack an efficient way to provide customers with a comprehensive and accessible management platform for various financial products, failing to adapt to customers' changing life events and needs over time.

Innovation Solution

A single-rail managed account continuum system that uses a customer interface device to collect state-of-life inputs, recommending and managing a range of financial service products and features based on customer life events, adapting product offerings and features over time to meet evolving customer needs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional financial service systems are used, then customers can access financial products, but the system fails to adapt to customers' changing life events and needs over time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to customer life eventsVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a dynamic managed account continuum that automatically adapts to customer life events by continuously monitoring state-of-life inputs and adjusting product recommendations and account configurations in real-time, transforming the static financial service system into a dynamic one that evolves with customer needs

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms by collecting state-of-life inputs from customers and using this information to continuously refine and personalize financial service recommendations, creating a closed-loop system that learns and adapts based on customer responses and life changes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If multiple financial service products are offered separately, then product variety is available, but customer access and understanding become difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer access and understandingVSAvoidproduct variety
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple separate financial service products into a unified managed account continuum, consolidating various financial services under a single interface that presents a cohesive view to customers while maintaining access to diverse product types, thereby simplifying customer interaction without reducing product variety

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The managed account continuum serves as a universal platform that can accommodate multiple types of financial service products and adapt to various customer needs, allowing a single system to perform multiple functions and provide diverse financial services through one interface

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

3Adaptability or versatility

If financial service products are customized for each customer, then product relevance increases, but system complexity and management difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduct customizationVSAvoidmanagement complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service automation by using algorithms and automated processes to analyze customer state-of-life inputs and generate personalized financial service recommendations, reducing the need for manual customization while maintaining high levels of personalization and adaptability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes parameter changes by adjusting financial service product parameters based on customer-specific state-of-life data, dynamically modifying account configurations, product recommendations, and service parameters to match individual customer needs without requiring complete system redesign for each customer

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12045878B1Managed account continuum system and method
Publication Date: 2024.07.23 UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
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AI summary

A system includes a server operable to communicatively couple with a customer interface device (CID) such that state-of-life inputs from the CID are communicated to the server. The server includes a memory configured to store the state-of-life inputs and storing a program executable by a processor of the server. The server also includes a processor configured to execute the program such that the program determines a financial service product based on the state-of-life inputs and such that the server issues a communication to the CID including a recommendation of the financial service product. The processor is also configured to format one or more selections made by the customer from the recommendation on a single-rail managed account product continuum having two or more financial service products.