Task Code Recommendation Model Using Location-Aware ML

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional task management applications strain resources due to time spent looking up and entering task codes, and are often backward-looking, failing to consider upcoming task code usage effectively.

Innovation Solution

A machine learning model trained on historical task code history and geospatial location data generates task code recommendations, reducing the time spent on manual entry and improving forward-looking task code predictions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If users manually look up and enter task codes in conventional task management applications, then task code entry can be completed, but time is lost and resources are strained

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetask code entry efficiencyVSAvoidtime spent on manual entry
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by proactively generating and presenting task code recommendations before the user needs to manually enter them. The machine learning model analyzes historical data and current context to predict relevant task codes in advance, allowing users to simply select from pre-computed options rather than performing manual lookup and entry operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system serves itself by automatically generating task code recommendations without requiring user intervention for manual entry. The machine learning model continuously learns from user selections and historical data, autonomously improving its recommendation accuracy over time while reducing the burden on users to manually search and input task codes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If conventional task management applications focus on tracking previously used task codes, then historical task data can be recorded, but upcoming task code usage cannot be accurately predicted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetask code prediction accuracyVSAvoidforward-looking capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where user selections of recommended task codes are fed back into the machine learning model. This feedback loop allows the model to continuously learn from actual user behavior patterns, historical task associations, and contextual factors, thereby improving its predictive accuracy for upcoming task code usage while maintaining adaptability to changing work patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of historical task code patterns, user behavior, and contextual data to generate predictions about upcoming task code usage. By analyzing past associations between tasks, users, locations, and time periods, the system proactively prepares relevant task code recommendations before users need them, enabling accurate forward-looking predictions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20260023819A1Task code recommendation model
Publication Date: 2026.01.22 INTUIT INC
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AI summary

Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a display device. In some embodiments, the device comprises a display and one or more processors configured to implement a user interface on the display. In some embodiments, the display device is configured to transmit a signal. Certain embodiments provide that the user interface is configured to allow a user to enter time for a task. According to certain embodiments, in response to a user initiating a time entry process, a set of task codes is generated by a machine learning model based on a data array comprising a task code history and a geospatial location of the device. Some embodiments provide that the geospatial location is determined based on the transmitted signal. Certain embodiments provide that the generated set of task codes is provided to the user via the user interface.