Task Server Integrating Fitness and Business Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods fail to effectively integrate fitness and business data to provide users with personalized plans that enhance both health and productivity, leading to suboptimal employee well-being and business efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that collect fitness and business data from various tools, analyze them using a task server with an analytical engine, and generate plans with notifications and results to improve health and productivity, presented in various formats to users.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If fitness data and business data are collected and integrated from multiple tools, then personalized plans improving health and productivity can be generated, but system complexity and data integration challenges increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that receives data from multiple fitness tools and business tools, processes this data, and generates personalized plans. This mediator architecture allows integration of diverse data sources without increasing client-side complexity, resolving the contradiction between personalization capability and system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The server is designed with multi-functional capabilities to handle both fitness data processing and business data processing, generating integrated personalized plans that address both health and productivity goals. This universal approach consolidates multiple functions into a single system component, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining adaptability.

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

2Productivity

If fitness tasks and business tasks are analyzed together to generate integrated plans, then employee well-being and business efficiency improve simultaneously, but analysis complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebusiness efficiencyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by continuously collecting and pre-processing fitness data and business data in the background, maintaining ready-to-analyze datasets. When plan generation is needed, the analysis can proceed efficiently using pre-prepared data, reducing actual processing time while maintaining comprehensive analysis quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The analysis process is segmented into distinct modules: fitness data analysis, business data analysis, and integrated plan generation. Each module processes specific aspects independently before combining results, which reduces overall processing time compared to analyzing all data together while still achieving comprehensive integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10504049B1Method and system for integrating business and fitness tasks
Publication Date: 2019.12.10 INTUIT INC
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AI summary

In general, embodiments of the invention provide a method, a system, and a computer readable medium for integrating business and fitness tasks and providing a plan of some type to users in some manner. The tasks may include fitness data collected by fitness tools. The tasks may further include business data collected by business tools. Embodiments of the invention analyze the fitness data and the business data of the user to produce a plan. The plan may include recommendations and/or insights regarding any pending and/or completed tasks of the user. The plan may further include notifications and results. The notifications may also include recommendations and/or insights regarding any pending and/or completed tasks and/or results that may be presented to the user. The notifications and/or results may include vocal, audible, graphical, tabular, and/or textual data describing the user's activity.