Path-Driven Calendar Interface with Financial Impact Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic calendar systems fail to leverage the benefits of an electronic format, replicating a written calendar's look and feel, and do not effectively integrate with other electronic systems to enhance event data presentation, lacking the ability to automatically analyze and present information beyond basic event details like location and duration.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a path-based graphical interface where events are represented as points on a path, with closer events to the current time foregrounded, and incorporating automatic querying and analysis to present financial impacts of decisions, integrating with financial systems to provide users with impact information without additional input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional table or list-based interface is used to display calendar events, then the interface is simple and easy to understand, but the system fails to leverage electronic format benefits and cannot effectively integrate with other electronic systems to enhance event data presentation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the traditional two-dimensional table or list interface into a three-dimensional path-based graphical interface. Events are represented as points along a visual path that unfolds over time, adding a temporal dimension to the display. This dimensional change enables richer visual representation of event sequences and their relationships, facilitating better integration with electronic systems while maintaining usability through intuitive visual navigation.
Solution Approach 2:
The path-based interface employs nested information architecture where detailed event information, financial implications, and related data are contained within the path structure. Users can explore nested layers of information by interacting with specific path segments, allowing comprehensive data integration without overwhelming the interface with all details simultaneously.
2Extent of automation
If basic event details like location and duration are displayed, then the interface remains simple, but the system cannot automatically analyze and present additional information such as financial impacts
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically queries financial systems and analyzes event data to determine financial implications without requiring user input or manual analysis. The path-based interface self-updates with relevant financial information, allowing the system to serve itself by gathering and presenting comprehensive event data automatically.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of event data and financial implications before presenting information to the user. By pre-querying financial systems and pre-calculating impacts, the system prepares comprehensive event information in advance, enabling automatic presentation of deep financial data without delaying user access to the interface.
3Ease of operation
If a path-based graphical interface with perspective format is implemented to show events dynamically, then user engagement and decision-making are improved, but the interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The path-based graphical interface dynamically adapts its presentation based on the current event being viewed. The perspective format automatically adjusts to highlight relevant information and maintain optimal viewing of upcoming events. This dynamic behavior enhances user engagement by presenting information in the most relevant context without requiring manual interface manipulation.
Solution Approach 2:
The path-based interface acts as an intermediary layer between raw event data and user perception. It translates complex event information and financial implications into an intuitive visual narrative that guides user understanding and decision-making, simplifying the interaction despite the underlying system complexity.
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AI summary
A method may include retrieving, from a data store, an environment template data file; parsing the environment template data file to identify: path data; an amount of events; and display location information with respect to each event in the amount of events; accessing a user profile identifying scheduled events for a user; for a first event in the scheduled events for the user, predicting using at least one processor, a set of decisions associated with the first event, and a set of impact determinations for each respective decision in the set of decisions; generating, using the processing device, a user interface based on the path data, the amount of events, the display location information, the set of decisions associated with the first event, and the set of impact determinations for each respective decision in the set of decisions; and presenting the user interface on a computing device of the user.