Resource Availability Tracking Across Entity Networks

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in tracking the availability of resources across a specific entity's network, particularly due to supply chain issues and the need for real-time inventory updates, leading to challenges in finding available products and determining delivery times.

Innovation Solution

A system that identifies specific entity locations, scans resource identifiers, and determines resource availability across different locations, generating user interface components to display where resources are available and how long they will take to reach a user-identified geolocation, allowing for real-time transactions based on resource availability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If the system tracks resource availability across the entire entity network, then the completeness of resource information is improved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresource availability informationVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides the entity network into multiple specific entity locations, each with its own resource inventory. The resource availability system segments the tracking task by maintaining separate resource databases for each location while providing centralized coordination through the processing device that queries multiple locations to determine overall availability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The resource availability system acts as an intermediary between users and the distributed resource inventories across multiple locations. The system mediates by receiving user requests, querying the appropriate resource databases at different locations, and providing consolidated availability information without requiring users to directly interact with each location's inventory system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of time

If the system provides real-time resource availability updates, then the timeliness of information is improved, but the computing resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation update timeVSAvoidcomputing resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements periodic polling of resource databases at specific entity locations to detect inventory changes. The processing device periodically queries the resource database to determine if resource availability has changed, providing timely updates without requiring continuous monitoring that would consume excessive computing resources.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by allowing the resource database and availability system to automatically detect and report inventory changes without requiring manual intervention. When resources are added or removed from inventory, the system self-updates the availability status and notifies relevant users automatically.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If the system determines resource availability at multiple locations, then the accuracy of availability information is improved, but the time required for determination increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveavailability information accuracyVSAvoiddetermination time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-querying resource databases at multiple specific entity locations and caching availability information. When a user requests resource availability, the system can quickly retrieve pre-fetched data from the resource database rather than querying all locations in real-time, reducing determination time while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by prioritizing the search for resources at specific entity locations based on user proximity or preference. The processing device first checks resources at nearby locations before expanding the search to farther locations, providing accurate availability information while minimizing determination time by focusing on the most relevant locations first.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20230419062A1Systems, methods, and apparatuses for determination of an availability of a resource in a specific entity network

Publication Date: 2023.12.28 BANK OF AMERICA CORP

AI summary

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described herein to determine an availability of a resource in a specific entity network. The present invention is configured to determine the availability of a resource in a specific entity network by identifying a specific entity location associated with a user device, by scanning a readable indicia to identify a resource identifier associated with a specific entity, and by determining a physical unavailability of a resource associated with the resource identifier within the specific entity location. The present invention is further configured to determine a location of the resource to be at a different location from the specific entity location, to determine a period for the resource associated with the resource identifier to reach a geolocation identified by a user of the system, and to generate an availability of the resource user interface component to configure a graphical user interface of the user device.