Remote Document Creation System with Rule-Based Data Insertion

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems for generating customized documents are inefficient and require significant manual intervention, leading to delays and errors, especially when multiple stakeholders are involved, and they often lack accessibility and security for collaborative document creation and distribution across different channels.

Innovation Solution

A client-user implemented document and communication creation system that allows remote terminal access, enabling storage of user-generated rules, template creation with data-insertable zones, data processing, and secure transmission, facilitating collaborative document creation and distribution in various formats, including printed and electronic forms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual intervention is used for document creation and distribution, then flexibility and control are maintained, but efficiency and productivity decrease significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedocument creation efficiencyVSAvoidmanual intervention level
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables client-users to independently create, customize, and distribute communications through self-service interfaces. Users can define their own rules, select templates, insert data, and choose transmission modes without requiring manual assistance from system administrators or technical staff, thereby dramatically improving productivity while maintaining adequate automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The document creation process is segmented into distinct modular steps: rule definition, template selection, data insertion, review approval, and transmission. Each step can be independently configured and executed, allowing users to work through the process systematically while maintaining control at each stage, thus resolving the contradiction between automation and manual control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If centralized system control is implemented for security, then security and compliance are improved, but accessibility and ease of operation deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem securityVSAvoidremote terminal accessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces a secure intermediary layer between the centralized control system and remote terminals. This intermediary architecture allows users to access the system remotely through standardized interfaces while the centralized system maintains security controls, compliance monitoring, and audit trails, thus achieving both security and accessibility simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides universal access through multiple transmission modes (electronic mail, SMS, MMS, social media, instant messaging) and various terminal types while maintaining a single centralized security framework. This multi-functional approach allows different users with different needs to access the system securely through their preferred channels, resolving the contradiction between centralized security control and remote accessibility.

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

3Manufacturing precision

If comprehensive rule processing is implemented, then manufacturing precision and data accuracy are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata insertion accuracyVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary processing of client-user rules and instructions before actual document generation. Templates are pre-configured with data-insertable zones, validation rules are pre-established, and compliance checks are pre-programmed. This preliminary action ensures high data insertion accuracy while keeping the runtime system relatively simple, as the complex processing has already been prepared in advance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses pre-defined templates as copies that can be repeatedly instantiated with different data sets. These templates encapsulate complex formatting, layout, and compliance rules, allowing the system to maintain high precision across multiple document generations without requiring complex processing logic to be re-implemented each time, thus reducing effective device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS12050862B2Communication fulfillment architectures, systems, and methods
Publication Date: 2024.07.30 NORDIS LLC
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AI summary

A client-user implemented document and communication creation system for generating a communication using a remote terminal remote from the system, can include at least one memory including computer program instructions and at least one processor that may be accessed remotely by the terminal. The at least one memory and the computer program instructions can further be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the system at least to receive client-user specified data insertion instructions comprising client-user specified data from the remote terminal to the processor. The at least one memory and the computer program instructions can additionally be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the system at least to process the transmitted client-user specified data insertion instructions in accordance with one or more client-user generated rule/instruction of the at least one client-user generated rule/instruction.