Central Server for Cross-Network Event Tracking and Alerting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Monitoring and tracking event data across different network environments is challenging due to transient user device connections and incompatibilities between software platforms, making it difficult to track user objectives and transfer funds effectively, especially in large-scale network environments like school districts or municipalities.

Innovation Solution

A system server communicatively coupled with network environments to monitor user devices, using machine learning models to determine thresholds for fund transfers and generate alerts based on historical data, allowing real-time event data communication and improved interfacing across networks, and enabling objective threshold setting for alert management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a system monitors user devices across multiple network environments, then the ability to track user objectives is improved, but the complexity of interfacing between different software platforms increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetracking user objectivesVSAvoidinterfacing between software platforms
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a central server as an intermediary that receives event data from user devices across different network environments and maintains a unified record of user objectives and progress. This server acts as a mediator between incompatible software platforms, translating and standardizing data formats to enable consistent tracking without requiring direct integration between each platform.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a universal interface through the central server that can accommodate multiple network environments and software platforms. The server provides standardized functions for receiving event data, storing user objective information, and calculating progress across diverse technical environments, making the system adaptable to various platforms without requiring platform-specific integration code.

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

2Productivity

If the system tracks event data from all users in real-time, then the monitoring capability is improved, but the computational resources required increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemonitoring capabilityVSAvoidcomputational resources
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-loads user objective data and thresholds into the central server before receiving event data. The server maintains pre-established criteria for objective completion and uses these pre-configured parameters to evaluate incoming event data, avoiding the need for complex real-time calculations and reducing computational resources required during actual monitoring operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

User devices perform self-service by autonomously generating and transmitting only the event data relevant to tracked objectives without requiring continuous server intervention. The devices independently monitor their own actions and communicate minimal necessary information to the server, reducing the computational burden on the system while maintaining effective monitoring capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If the system transfers funds to all users who complete objectives, then the incentive program effectiveness is improved, but the risk of erroneous transfers increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveincentive program effectivenessVSAvoidtransfer accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where the central server continuously monitors user progress against predefined objectives and only initiates fund transfers after verifying objective completion through received event data. The server maintains a feedback loop that confirms transfer execution and tracks remaining balances, ensuring accurate and intentional fund distribution while minimizing erroneous transfers through systematic verification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20240362660A1Account program systems and methods
Publication Date: 2024.10.31 CITIBANK N A
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AI summary

Presented herein are systems and methods of providing alerts based on events across network environments. A server may receive, from a plurality of computing devices, event data indicating completion of at least one objective of a plurality of objectives by a plurality of users associated with at least one network environment. Each of the plurality of objectives may define a corresponding action to be completed. The server may transfer a plurality of transactions from the first account to a plurality of second accounts associated with the plurality of users based on the event data indicating the completion of the at least one objective. The server may determine that the remaining amount in the first account is less than the threshold determined using a machine learning model. The server may automatically generate an alert message comprising an indicator that the remaining amount in the first account is less than the threshold.