Resource Forecasting Model for Actionable Allocation Decisions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems lack the ability to provide intelligent resource management by analyzing historical data to make actionable recommendations for future business scenarios and optimize resource utilization.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that utilizes a foresight model trained on operational data to generate forecasts and send notifications for recommended actions, incorporating features like scenario planning, promotions, and real-time cash flow analysis, leveraging technologies such as DeepAR models and stochastic optimization for optimal decision-making.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If current data analysis systems are used, then business insight is provided, but forecasting capability and action recommendation are lacking

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveforecasting capabilityVSAvoiddecision-making quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary forecasting actions by training the DeepAR model on historical operational data to predict future resource states and events before actual decisions need to be made. This allows businesses to anticipate future conditions and prepare appropriate actions in advance, rather than reacting to past data only.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback loops where forecasted future states are compared with actual outcomes, and the DeepAR model is continuously retrained with new operational data. This feedback mechanism improves forecasting accuracy over time and enables the system to provide increasingly accurate action recommendations based on learned patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If traditional resource management systems are used, then current state analysis is provided, but future state prediction is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecurrent state analysisVSAvoidfuture state prediction
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces traditional mechanical forecasting methods with a DeepAR neural network model that uses stochastic optimization. This substitution enables the system to capture complex nonlinear patterns in operational data and provide probabilistic forecasts with confidence intervals, significantly improving the reliability of future state predictions while maintaining precise measurement of current states.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Device complexity

If no predictive analytics are implemented, then system simplicity is maintained, but resource allocation optimization is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidresource allocation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameter representation by transforming operational data into probability distributions that capture uncertainty in future states. The DeepAR model outputs not just point forecasts but full probability distributions, enabling decision-makers to assess risk and optimize resource allocation under uncertainty. This parameter transformation adds predictive power while maintaining a unified interface for resource management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12614197B2System and method for intelligent resource management
Publication Date: 2026.04.28 ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
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AI summary

A computer system and method for intelligent system diagnostics and management is provided. The system comprises at least one processor and a memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor configure the processor to perform the method. The method comprises receiving resource data and usage data, preprocessing the resource data and the usage data into operational data, training and updating a foresight model using the operational data, receiving a forecast generated by the foresight model, and sending a notification for a recommended action based on the forecast. The forecast may be associated with a future resource state or event associated with the operational data.