SOV Tag Mapping for Real-Time Construction Status Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Construction management systems face delays and inaccuracies in data collection, verification, and integration across sub-systems, leading to delayed project status reporting and ineffective recovery planning due to manual and uncoordinated data input processes.

Innovation Solution

A construction management system that integrates schedule of values (SOV), project schedule, and building information modeling (BIM) data using a unique SOV tagging method, allowing real-time updates and verification of work elements, reducing delays and enhancing data reconciliation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual data collection and verification methods are used across sub-systems, then data accuracy can be maintained through human review, but project status reporting delays occur due to tedious manual collation processes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata accuracyVSAvoidreporting delay

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual mechanical data collection and verification processes with automated electronic data processing systems. The system automatically extracts data from multiple sub-systems (SOV, project schedule, BIM, contract cost), verifies consistency through computational reconciliation, and generates real-time project status reports, eliminating the need for manual collation while maintaining data accuracy through systematic validation algorithms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates integrated electronic copies and representations of data from various sub-systems, allowing simultaneous access and verification across different project management components. The system generates digital replicas of project status information that can be instantly analyzed and reported without physical manual intervention, reducing reporting delays while preserving data fidelity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Ease of operation

If separate sub-systems (SOV, project schedule, contract cost, BIM) are maintained independently, then each sub-system can be managed separately, but data coordination and reconciliation become delayed and inaccurate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveindependent sub-system managementVSAvoiddata coordination

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges data from independent sub-systems (schedule of values, project schedule, contract cost tracking, and BIM) into a unified project status assessment framework. The system simultaneously maintains the independence of each sub-system for specialized management while integrating their data through automated reconciliation processes that verify consistency and generate coordinated project status indicators in real-time.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where data from each sub-system is continuously verified against the others through automated reconciliation. The system provides real-time feedback on data consistency, identifying and flagging discrepancies between sub-systems, and enables corrective actions to maintain coordinated and reliable project status information across all components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If real-time data integration is implemented across all sub-systems, then project status reporting becomes timely and accurate, but system complexity and integration requirements increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereal-time reporting capabilityVSAvoidsystem integration complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent develops a universal data integration platform that handles multiple sub-systems (SOV, project schedule, BIM, contract cost) through a single coordinated framework. The system performs multiple functions including data extraction, validation, reconciliation, and reporting within one integrated architecture, reducing overall system complexity compared to maintaining separate integration mechanisms for each sub-system pair.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20260065173A1Construction management method, system, computer readable medium, computer architecture, computer-implemented instructions, input-processing-output, graphical user interfaces, databases and file management

Publication Date: 2026.03.05 REQPAY LLC

AI summary

A system for construction management including a device having at least one processor and a memory storing at least one program for execution by the at least one processor, the at least one program including instructions, when, executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations include receiving as input an electronic version of a document; identifying at least one string of data from the electronic version of the document; mapping the identified at least one string of data to a predetermined unitary database including at least one key string of data associated with at least one key event; tagging the mapped and identified at least one string of data with a tag associated with the at least one key string of data associated with the at least one key event; and transmitting a signal based on the tagged, mapped, and identified at least one string of data. Related methods, devices, apparatuses, systems, techniques and articles are also described.