Optimal Schedule Selection System Using Machine Learning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in optimizing their schedules to balance multiple life domains effectively, as existing methods lack the ability to generate personalized and interactive curricula that align with user availability and performance goals.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that utilize a computing device to receive user data, identify domain targets, generate candidate schedules through machine-learning models, and select an optimal schedule by minimizing expected loss, presenting it to the user and tracking progress.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple life domains are considered in schedule optimization, then the comprehensiveness of the schedule improves, but the complexity of the scheduling system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveschedule comprehensivenessVSAvoidscheduling system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the scheduling problem into multiple independent life domains (e.g., work, family, health, personal development). Each domain is evaluated separately using domain-specific metrics, and schedules are generated by integrating these segmented evaluations. This allows comprehensive multi-domain optimization while managing complexity through modular processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Manufacturing precision

If personalized curricula are generated based on user data, then the schedule alignment with user goals improves, but the computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveschedule alignment precisionVSAvoidcomputational energy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing user data to extract domain-specific metrics and preferences before generating schedules. Machine learning models are pre-trained on domain-specific data to enable faster inference during schedule generation. This reduces computational energy consumption during actual schedule creation while maintaining high alignment precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses self-service mechanisms by implementing automated feedback loops where user interactions with generated schedules are automatically analyzed and used to refine future schedule recommendations. This reduces the need for intensive re-computation and allows the system to adapt to user preferences efficiently over time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If machine-learning models are trained with domain-specific data, then the accuracy of schedule recommendations improves, but the data processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by using domain-specific machine learning models trained on specialized data for each life domain (e.g., productivity metrics for work domain, health metrics for fitness domain). Each domain model processes only relevant data locally, improving recommendation accuracy for that specific domain while reducing overall data processing time through specialized rather than general-purpose processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11803820B1Methods and systems for selecting an optimal schedule for exploiting value in certain domains
Publication Date: 2023.10.31 FLOURISH WORLDWIDE LLC
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AI summary

Aspects of the present disclosure generally relates to a method including receiving user data and identifying at least a domain target for the at least a domain as a function of the domain-specific data. Also, the method may include generating a plurality of candidate schedules. Further, the method may include selecting an optimal user schedule from the plurality of candidate schedules. Moreover, the method may include presenting, at a remote device, the optimal user schedule to a user, and tracking, by the computing device, a user's progress with regard to the optimal user schedule.