Mobile Banking Reconciliation Card Interface

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems for mobile banking reconciliation lack efficiency and accuracy in matching banking records with business records, leading to discrepancies and manual errors.

Innovation Solution

A mobile banking reconciliation application that allows users to reconcile business records with banking records by displaying records in a card format, enabling users to scroll and flip through them, and automatically suggesting matches based on record characteristics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional banking reconciliation systems are used, then record matching can be performed, but manual errors increase and efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvematching accuracyVSAvoidreconciliation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automated self-matching of banking records with business ledger records through algorithmic comparison of transaction characteristics, eliminating reliance on manual accountant intervention and reducing human error while maintaining high matching accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical manual process of record-by-record matching with an automated digital system that uses computational algorithms to compare and match transactions based on multiple characteristics, thereby eliminating manual errors and significantly improving reconciliation efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Measurement precision

If detailed record matching is performed manually, then accuracy can be maintained, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction matching precisionVSAvoidreconciliation time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary automated matching of banking records with ledger records before final review, pre-identifying potential matches based on transaction characteristics such as amount, date, and counterparty, thereby reducing the time required for detailed verification while maintaining matching precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent substitutes manual detailed examination of each transaction with an automated computational system that rapidly compares transaction records across multiple dimensions, achieving both high precision matching and significant time reduction simultaneously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Reliability

If complex reconciliation processes are implemented, then matching accuracy improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereconciliation reliabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The reconciliation system is segmented into distinct functional modules including record ingestion, characteristic extraction, matching algorithm execution, and result verification, allowing complex reconciliation tasks to be performed through coordinated simple operations that maintain reliability without requiring overall system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs a universal matching framework that handles multiple transaction types and reconciliation scenarios through a single integrated platform, reducing the need for separate complex subsystems while maintaining high matching accuracy across diverse banking and business records

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

Data Source

PatentUS12223543B2Systems and methods of mobile banking reconciliation
Publication Date: 2025.02.11 XERO
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AI summary

A mobile banking reconciliation application allows a user to reconcile a business's records with banking records associated with one or more accounts of the business. The mobile banking reconciliation application can access an accounting system to obtain business records and banking records associated with the business. The banking records and business records may be displayed as a set of cards that a user can scroll and/or flip through (e.g., using the touch screen of a mobile device). The related business records displayed may be a suggestion that is based on a determination that the banking record likely matches the business record. The user may identify the appropriate business record for the particular bank record being reconciled from existing business records, or the user may create a new business record.