Network Resource Allocation via Competency Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current network resource management systems rely on objective factors, failing to effectively utilize human productivity and effort in managing network resources and bandwidth consumption.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method that uses human competency improvement, tracked through non-restricted software services, to grant time-limited access to restricted software services, where users earn access based on demonstrated qualitative improvements, with weighted competency scores normalizing diverse efforts across different activities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional network resource management based on objective factors is used, then network bandwidth consumption is managed, but human productivity and effort are not effectively utilized
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a competency tracking system as an intermediary between user activities and network resource allocation. This mediator translates qualitative human efforts into quantifiable competency scores that automatically govern access to restricted software services, effectively utilizing human productivity without requiring complex manual evaluation processes
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables users to automatically earn access to restricted services by demonstrating competency improvements through their own activities. The competency tracking system automatically monitors, evaluates, and rewards user efforts without external intervention, allowing users to self-manage their network resource access based on their demonstrated productivity
2Adaptability or versatility
If time-limited access to restricted services is granted based on competency improvement, then productive users are rewarded with additional network resource access, but the system requires tracking and quantifying qualitative human efforts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback loop where user activities are continuously monitored, competency scores are calculated based on demonstrated improvements, and access permissions are dynamically adjusted accordingly. This automated feedback mechanism transforms the difficult task of measuring qualitative human effort into a systematic process that grants flexible network access based on objectively tracked competency progression
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of network access control from static permission settings to dynamic time-limited access based on competency scores. By transforming access rights into time-bound resources that can be earned and spent, the system enables adaptable resource allocation while maintaining measurable criteria through competency tracking
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method to implement efficient utilization of network resources by an electronic data processing system to conserve network bandwidth consumed by user computing devices over a computer network by managing access to restricted and non-restricted software services. The method includes: operatively connecting the electronic data processing system to a first of the non-restricted software services via a first application programming interface (API); receiving a first topic indicative of an improvement in or a type of competency by a human user of a first of the user computing devices on which the first non-restricted software service is at least partly deployed, the first non-restricted software service having an electronic interface with which the human user interacts using the first of the user computing devices to attain or improve the competency of the human user; calculating, by the electronic data processing system, a weighted competency score based on a quantity corresponding to or representing the first topic and a weight configured to normalize the quantity relative to other non-restricted software services; and updating, by a time index calculator, a first time allowance index using the calculated weighted competency score, the first time allowance index representing a time period during which a time-limited access to a first of the restricted software services is granted by the electronic data processing system.