Transaction Data Overlay for Financial Planning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current account management systems face challenges in effectively utilizing and visualizing historical and current transaction data across multiple accounts, making it difficult to provide users with comprehensive financial planning and prevent overspending.

Innovation Solution

The system employs a semiconductor integrated circuit device and mobile device with hardware circuits to receive, normalize, and generate graphical representations of transaction data, allowing users to overlay historical and current transactions, create budget plans, and prevent mobile payments that exceed budget limits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If transaction data from multiple accounts is aggregated and visualized, then financial planning capability is improved, but data processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefinancial planning capabilityVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments transaction data by account and time period, processing and visualizing each segment separately before combining them into a comprehensive view. This allows complex multi-account data to be managed through systematic division into manageable units.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that normalizes and standardizes transaction data from multiple accounts before visualization. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of data aggregation, transformation, and comparison, shielding users from underlying data processing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If historical transaction data is normalized and compared with current data, then spending analysis accuracy is improved, but computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespending analysis accuracyVSAvoidcomputational requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary normalization of historical transaction data during data collection and storage phases, preparing it for future comparisons. By pre-processing data to establish consistent formats and categories, the system reduces computational burden during actual analysis and comparison operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If graphical representations of transaction data are generated and overlaid, then user interface usability is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interface usabilityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system generates graphical representations periodically or on-demand rather than continuously updating them. By triggering graph generation at specific intervals or events (such as end-of-month reporting or user-initiated requests), the system balances visual information availability with processing time constraints.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

4Reliability

If real-time transaction monitoring is implemented, then budget compliance is improved, but system response time requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebudget complianceVSAvoidsystem response time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms that monitor transactions against budget constraints in real-time, providing immediate alerts when spending approaches or exceeds limits. This continuous feedback loop ensures budget compliance by enabling timely user intervention while maintaining acceptable system response times through efficient threshold-based monitoring.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10460391B2Historical transaction-based account monitoring
Publication Date: 2019.10.29 MX TECHNOLOGIES INC
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AI summary

Apparatuses, systems, methods, and program products are disclosed for historical transaction-based account monitoring. A method includes receiving historical and current transaction data for a plurality of user accounts at a mobile device over a computer network. A method includes normalizing transactions of the historical transaction data for the historical time period based on one or more transactions of the historical transaction data that correspond to one or more transactions of the current transaction data. A method includes generating and presenting a graphical representation of the historical transaction data and a graphical representation of the current transaction data within an interactive interface on the touch screen display. A method includes dynamically presenting one or more details of a transaction in response to a user selecting a transaction on the graphical representation of the historical transaction data or the graphical representation of the current transaction data, using the touch screen display.