Regulatory Compliance Platform with Clause Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions fail to provide a comprehensive platform for businesses to discover and implement all relevant regulations in one place, lacking collaboration features and tying regulatory clauses to specific business structures, making compliance costly and cumbersome.
Innovation Solution
A server system that sources regulations from multiple authorities, generates enriched regulations by parsing and contextualizing them, and allows users to create constructs related to organizations and industries, facilitating search, discovery, and linking of clauses to functional constituents for effective implementation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If businesses use internal resources or hybrid efforts to implement regulations, then implementation capability is maintained, but compliance costs and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary platform that connects regulatory authorities with businesses. This platform automatically sources regulations from multiple authorities, parses them into structured components, and enables mapping to organizational functional constituents, thereby reducing the complexity burden on businesses while maintaining implementation capability
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by allowing businesses to automatically discover applicable regulations, view contextualized information, and map clauses to their own organizational structures without requiring extensive external consulting or manual analysis, thus reducing compliance complexity
2Quantity of substance
If conventional discovery solutions show regulations from one jurisdiction or industry, then solution simplicity is maintained, but comprehensiveness of regulation discovery deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal discovery platform that can source and display regulations from multiple jurisdictions and industries simultaneously. The system aggregates regulations from diverse sources, parses them into common structures, and presents them through a unified interface, enabling comprehensive discovery without proportionally increasing user-facing complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments regulations into standardized components (headers, clauses, functional constituents) through parsing, allowing comprehensive aggregation from multiple sources while presenting information in a manageable, structured format that reduces perceived complexity
3Adaptability or versatility
If collaboration tools are added to regulatory platforms, then collaborative capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges collaboration features directly into the regulation display interface by enabling users to annotate regulations, ask questions, and view community responses at the same location where regulations are displayed. This integration provides collaboration capability without requiring separate complex collaboration systems
4Productivity
If regulations are not tied to organizational functional constituents, then regulatory information remains simple, but implementation effectiveness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary parsing of regulations into standardized components and pre-establishes mappings between regulatory clauses and organizational functional constituents before the user needs to implement them. This preparation enables effective implementation through simple selection and mapping operations rather than complex analysis during implementation
Data Source
AI summary
A method and a server system for facilitating implementation of regulations by organizations is described. Regulations are sourced from data stores associated with a plurality of regulatory authorities to configure a corpus of regulations. A plurality of enriched regulations is generated from the corpus of regulations. A user is enabled to create a construct related to at least one of an organization and an industry associated with the user. The construct is indicative of corresponding functional constituents and relationships among the functional constituents. Search and discovery of one or more regulations applicable to the organization or the industry is facilitated. Subsequent to the discovery of the one or more regulations, a linking of clauses of a respective enriched regulation to at least one functional constituent of the construct is enabled for facilitating implementation of the one or more regulations applicable to the organization or the industry associated with the user.