Real-time Resource Transfer System with Intelligent Routing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current resource transfer systems face inefficiencies in processing capacity and memory storage due to end-of-day reconciliation processes, leading to potential misappropriation and delayed confirmation of transactions across entities.

Innovation Solution

A real-time resource transfer system utilizing a real-time payment network for immediate reconciliation processing, allowing resources to be transferred directly between entities' resource pools without lag, with intelligent routing and receipt selections based on speed, security, and protection levels, reducing processing capacity and memory requirements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If end-of-day reconciliation processing is used, then processing capacity and memory storage requirements are reduced, but transaction confirmation is delayed and misappropriation risks increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction confirmation timeVSAvoidprocessing capacity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts processing modes based on transaction characteristics. For high-value or time-sensitive transactions, real-time processing is activated; for routine transactions, batch processing is used. This dynamic switching resolves the contradiction by applying real-time processing only when needed, preserving processing capacity while reducing confirmation time for critical transactions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the processing parameter from batch-oriented to transaction-oriented based on transaction type, value, and urgency. By modifying processing parameters dynamically, the system achieves real-time confirmation for important transactions without permanently increasing overall processing capacity requirements, thus resolving the time-capacity contradiction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If real-time resource transfer is implemented, then transaction confirmation is immediate and misappropriation is reduced, but processing capacity and memory storage requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction securityVSAvoidprocessing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The processing system is segmented into real-time and batch processing streams. Real-time processing handles only critical transactions, while batch processing handles routine transactions. This segmentation reduces the complexity burden on the real-time processing capacity by isolating it from the bulk of processing work, thus achieving high reliability without proportional increases in system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

An intermediary layer is introduced between the transaction initiation and final processing. This intermediary layer filters, prioritizes, and routes transactions appropriately, reducing the direct processing complexity required for real-time handling by managing the flow and classification of transactions before they reach the processing engine.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If entities have no control over resource processing, then system operation is simplified, but entity autonomy and control over transactions are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem operation simplicityVSAvoidentity control flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides feedback mechanisms to entities about their transaction status, processing options, and resource allocation. This feedback enables entities to maintain control and make adjustments without complicating the core system operation, thus preserving entity autonomy while keeping the system operationally simple through automated processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

Entities are enabled to self-manage their transactions through automated processing options and self-service interfaces. The system provides pre-configured processing rules and options that entities can select or modify without requiring complex system intervention, thus maintaining operational simplicity while giving entities full control over their resource processing needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11025558B2Real-time resource processing based on resource channel factors
Publication Date: 2021.06.01 BANK OF AMERICA CORP
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AI summary

A resource transfer system that provides intelligent distribution of resources based on resource routing selections, resource receipt selections, and/or resource processing advantages, and in response makes the resource transfers accordingly. The resources may be transferred based on the desired speed of distribution, the reason for distribution, the entities involved in the interaction, the level of security for distribution, level of protection for the interaction, or the like.