Visual Scheduling Reconfiguration Under Real-Time Resource Constraints

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing scheduling systems struggle with overwhelming variables and constraints, making real-time dynamic reconfiguration of schedules impossible, especially when changes occur, leading to inefficiencies and schedule disruptions.

Innovation Solution

A computerized system using visual representations on a graphical user interface to dynamically recalculate and reconfigure schedules in real-time, considering resource availability and constraints, allowing users to interactively manage appointments and constraints.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If automated real-time recalculation of all possible appointment combinations is implemented, then scheduling adaptability and responsiveness to changes is improved, but computational complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvescheduling adaptabilityVSAvoidcomputational complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The scheduling problem is segmented into multiple independent constraint categories (resource constraints, time constraints, skill constraints, preference constraints). Each constraint type is evaluated separately through independent filtering passes, breaking down the complex combinatorial optimization problem into manageable segments that can be processed sequentially rather than requiring simultaneous evaluation of all possible combinations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary filtering of appointment possibilities based on hard constraints before presenting options to users. By pre-calculating which appointments are feasible under mandatory constraints (resource availability, skill requirements, time conflicts), the system reduces the search space early in the process, avoiding unnecessary computational effort on impossible combinations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If comprehensive constraint checking is performed for all appointments, then schedule compliance accuracy is improved, but processing speed decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveschedule compliance accuracyVSAvoidprocessing speed

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Constraint checking is segmented into hierarchical levels: mandatory constraints (resource availability, skill requirements, time conflicts) are checked first with strict binary pass/fail evaluation, followed by preference constraints (user preferences, optimization goals) that allow for more nuanced evaluation. This segmented approach ensures compliance accuracy for critical constraints while maintaining processing speed by using simpler evaluation logic for less critical constraints.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs partial constraint checking in multiple passes rather than exhaustive checking of all constraints simultaneously. In each pass, only relevant constraints for the current set of candidate appointments are evaluated, performing just enough checking needed to filter down to viable options without unnecessary excessive computation on all possible constraints for every appointment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Ease of operation

If real-time dynamic reconfiguration is enabled, then user interaction responsiveness is improved, but system resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser interaction responsivenessVSAvoidsystem resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses periodic action by implementing event-driven recalculation triggered by specific user interactions (appointment additions, deletions, modifications) rather than continuous real-time monitoring. When a change occurs, the system recalculates affected appointments and updates the display. This periodic, on-demand approach maintains user interaction responsiveness while avoiding unnecessary continuous computation that would waste system resources during periods when no user actions occur.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS12481962B2Systems and methods for calculating and dynamically reconfiguring resource-constraint scheduling using visual representations on graphical user interface

Publication Date: 2025.11.25 ABA SCHEDULES LLC

AI summary

Computerized systems and methods useful for resource-constraint scheduling using visual representations on a graphical user interface to build one or more schedules across a business network, where the schedules are dynamically reconfigured based off real-time changes to resource availability, constraints and requirements that must be satisfied, where interactions by the user with the schedule at the user interface cause the dynamic, real-time recalculation of possible appointments meeting the constraints, after which a schedule is reconfigured and displayed at the user interface.