Transaction System Handling Nonstandard Services

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing transaction systems struggle to handle nonstandard services, particularly in fields like social infrastructure, where consumer demands are diversified and complex, making it difficult to facilitate smooth transactions.

Innovation Solution

A transaction system that includes a server computer connected to a network, allowing multiple consumer-side and supplier-side computers to register and refer information, with data blocks for demand and provision elements, enabling efficient matching and evaluation of services through a market place system that supports one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many transactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a regular transaction system is used for standardized services, then transaction processing is efficient and straightforward, but it cannot handle nonstandard services with diversified consumer demands

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to handle nonstandard servicesVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments transaction information into structured data blocks (basic elements and additional elements) that can be independently processed and combined. This segmentation allows the system to handle diverse service types by assembling appropriate data blocks without requiring complete system redesign for each service type.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal transaction system framework that can process both standardized and nonstandard services through a common architecture. The system uses standardized data block structures that can accommodate various service types, making the system multi-functional without requiring separate processing paths for different service categories.

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

2Adaptability or versatility

If a transaction system is designed to handle diversified service types, then it can accommodate nonstandard services, but data processing becomes more complex and less efficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice type flexibilityVSAvoidtransaction processing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the parameter representation of transaction data by using standardized data blocks with defined schemas. Instead of processing unstructured or highly variable service descriptions, the system transforms diverse service information into consistent parameterized data blocks, enabling efficient processing while maintaining flexibility to represent different service types through parameter variation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If detailed consumer-side information is collected for nonstandard services, then service matching accuracy improves, but information management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice matching accuracyVSAvoidinformation management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments consumer-side information into basic elements (common to all transactions) and additional elements (specific to particular services). This segmentation allows the system to collect detailed information where needed while maintaining a manageable core structure, improving matching accuracy without proportionally increasing management complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent adds a dimensional structure to information management by organizing data in hierarchical data blocks with basic and additional elements. This dimensional organization transforms flat complex information into a multi-level structure that is easier to manage, query, and process, reducing the perceived complexity while maintaining comprehensive data collection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS11393002B2Transaction system, method, and medium
Publication Date: 2022.07.19 HITACHI LTD
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AI summary

Provided is a transaction system that supports a transaction between a plurality of consumers and a plurality of suppliers, the transaction system including a server computer that is connected to a network, in which a plurality of consumer-side computers of the transaction and a plurality of supplier-side computers of the transaction are connected to the network, in which the server computer includes a processor that performs processing for interposing in a transaction performed between at least one of the plurality of consumer-side computers and at least one of the plurality of supplier-side computers, and a memory that records consumer-side information regarding the transaction which is output from each of the plurality of consumer-side computers and supplier-side information regarding the transaction which is output from each of the plurality of supplier-side computers.