Unstructured Data Classification With Key-Datum Validation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing rule-based systems for processing unstructured data, such as emails, lack flexibility and adaptability, leading to inefficiencies and errors in handling diverse and dynamic email content.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus and method utilizing a processor and memory to receive unstructured data, classify it using a classifier, identify key datums with a key datum extractor, generate an output using a validation model, and transmit it to a downstream system, incorporating multimodal generative models and computer vision to fill gaps with prediction data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Extent of automation

If rule-based systems are used for email categorization and response automation, then automation extent is improved, but adaptability deteriorates due to inability to handle diverse and dynamic email content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomation of email processingVSAvoidadaptability to diverse email content
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces rigid rule-based mechanical systems with machine learning models (classifiers, extractors, validation models) that can dynamically adapt to diverse email content while maintaining automation. The ML-based approach substitutes fixed if-then rules with learned patterns that generalize to new content types.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the operational parameters from static rules to dynamic machine learning models that can adjust their behavior based on input characteristics. The classifiers and extractors modify their processing parameters adaptively based on the email content they encounter, enabling both automation and versatility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If manual processing is used for high volume unstructured data, then adaptability is improved, but productivity deteriorates due to labor intensity and time consumption

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehandling flexibility of unstructured dataVSAvoidprocessing speed and volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service processing where the machine learning models automatically classify, extract, and validate data without human intervention. The automated pipeline processes emails independently, maintaining adaptability through ML while achieving high productivity through automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Manual human processing is replaced with an automated machine learning system that combines the adaptability of human-like understanding with the speed and volume capacity of computational systems. The ML models process unstructured data with both flexibility and high throughput.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Device complexity

If rule-based systems are used for data processing, then device complexity is reduced, but measurement precision deteriorates leading to errors in classification and extraction

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem structure simplicityVSAvoidclassification and extraction accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the processing task into distinct specialized components: classification model for categorization, extraction model for key datum identification, and validation model for accuracy checking. This segmentation improves precision through specialized processing while managing complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The validation model provides feedback mechanisms that check and verify the outputs of classification and extraction processes. This feedback loop improves measurement precision by detecting and correcting errors, while the modular feedback structure manages system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12411871B1Apparatus and method for generating an automated output as a function of an attribute datum and key datums
Publication Date: 2025.09.09 HAMMEL
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AI summary

An apparatus and method for generating an automated output as a function of an attribute datum and key datums. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to receive a first datum comprising a plurality of unstructured data, classify, using a classifier, the first datum based on an attribute datum, identify, using a key datum extractor, key datums as a function of the attribute datum, generate, using a validation model, an output as a function of the attribute datum and the key datums, and transmit the output to a downstream system.