Virtual Register Look Ahead Engine for Financial State Prediction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current software applications for personal finance management lack the ability to effectively track and visualize upcoming, non-recurring electronic transactions, making it difficult for users to predict and manage their future financial state accurately.

Innovation Solution

An AI virtual assistant system that includes a processor and memory configured to receive user inputs for future electronic transactions, analyze scheduled transactions, and generate a predictive visualization screen on a user device, allowing users to view and manage their financial state, with features like 'Look Ahead' functionality for reconciling actual and predicted transactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users manually track and calculate future transactions, then they can understand their financial state, but it requires significant time and effort

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of future financial state predictionVSAvoidtime required to track and calculate transactions
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary calculations of future financial states by automatically ingesting scheduled transactions from external systems and pre-computing projected balances before users need to review them. This eliminates the need for users to manually calculate future transaction impacts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The virtual assistant system automatically monitors, tracks, and calculates future transactions without requiring user intervention. It self-services by continuously fetching scheduled transactions from external systems and updating virtual register screens autonomously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Loss of information

If the system displays detailed information about all future transactions, then users can see the complete financial picture, but the interface becomes complex and difficult to navigate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of financial informationVSAvoidcomplexity of user interface
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments financial information into distinct virtual register screens organized by time periods (e.g., current month, next month, specific date ranges). Each screen presents a manageable portion of the complete financial picture, making information accessible without overwhelming users with all details simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system adds a temporal dimension to financial display by organizing transactions and balances across different time periods. Users can navigate through multiple virtual register screens representing different future states, transforming a potentially complex single-view problem into an organized multi-perspective presentation.

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

3Reliability

If the system provides comprehensive transaction tracking and prediction capabilities, then financial planning accuracy improves, but the system requires complex integration with multiple external systems

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereliability of future state predictionVSAvoidsystem integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system acts as an intermediary layer between users and multiple external transaction systems. It automatically connects to various external computing systems to ingest scheduled transactions, processes this data through virtual register logic, and presents unified financial projections to users, shielding them from underlying system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The virtual assistant system provides multi-functional capabilities by simultaneously performing transaction ingestion from external systems, future state prediction, virtual register screen generation, and user interaction handling. This universal approach consolidates multiple functions into a single integrated solution.

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

Data Source

PatentUS11164189B2Virtual register look ahead engine
Publication Date: 2021.11.02 BANK OF AMERICA CORP
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AI summary

A virtual assistant computing system may include a user device and a virtual assistant computing system. The virtual assistant computing system may include a first processor and a first non-transitory memory configured to receive, via a network from the user device, an input corresponding to a future electronic transaction expected to be initiated by a user and analyze information corresponding to the future electronic transaction to predict based on and a plurality of scheduled electronic transactions received from an external computing system, a future state of an electronic account associated with the user. The virtual assistant computing system may then cause display, on the user device via a network, a visualization of the future state of the electronic account based on the future electronic transaction and the plurality of scheduled electronic transactions.