IP Library Granted Patent US 12,505,363
Granted Patent B2
US 12,505,363 · App. 18/142,312 · Granted Dec 23, 2025

Apparatus and a method for the detection and improvement of deficiency data

Inventors: Barbara Sue Smith (Toronto, CA); Daniel J. Sullivan (Toronto, CA)
Assignee: The Strategic Coach Inc.
G06N5/048G06N3/006G06N3/0464
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Patent No.
US 12,505,363
App. No.
18/142,312
Granted
Dec 23, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus for the detection and improvement of deficiency data is disclosed. 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 an entity profile from a user, wherein the entity profile comprises a plurality of entity data. The memory instructs the processor to identify deficiency data as a function of the entity data. The memory instructs the processor to generate an automation suggestion as a function of the deficiency data and the entity data. The memory instructs the processor to predict progress data associated with the deficiency data as function of the implementation of the automation suggestion. The memory instructs the processor to display the progress data using a display device.

Claims (51)

1 . An apparatus for a detection and improvement of deficiency data, wherein the apparatus comprises:

at least a processor; and

a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to:

receive an entity profile from a user, wherein the entity profile comprises a plurality of entity data comprising data related to a corporation, wherein the entity data further comprises financial records of the corporation,

wherein:

the entity profile is received from the user by extracting the entity profile using a chatbot; and

the chatbot is configured to respond to a chatbot input using a plurality of overlapping decision trees with interconnected nodes including shared intermediate nodes;

identify deficiency data as a function of the entity data, wherein the deficiency data is a deficient procedure associated with procedure data and wherein a determination of the deficient procedure is calculated by a deficiency quantifier utilizing a quantification classifier which further comprises:

receiving quantification training data, wherein the quantification training data correlates a plurality of entity profile data, entity data and procedure data to a plurality of examples of quantifier data;

training, iteratively, the quantification classifier using the quantification training data, wherein training the quantification classifier includes retraining the quantification classifier with feedback from previous iterations of the quantification classifier; and

generating the deficiency quantifier using the trained quantification classifier;

generate an automation suggestion as a function of the deficiency data and the entity data, wherein the automation suggestion comprises a notification that a deficient program is solved using a technical solution to a deficiency, wherein generating the automation suggestion comprises generating an automation model, wherein generating the automation model further comprises:

training an automation machine learning model iteratively as a function of automation training data, wherein the automation training data comprises the deficiency data and the plurality of entity data as inputs and the automation suggestion as an output, and wherein a current state of the plurality of entity data and the entity profile is compared to previous iterations of the plurality of entity data and the entity profile; and

generating the automation suggestion as a function of the deficiency data and the plurality of entity data using the trained automation machine learning model, wherein the automation suggestion comprises a software solution, wherein the software solution further comprises a requirement to implement a software technology in a process represented by the procedure data;

predict, using a prediction machine learning model, progress data associated with the deficiency data as a function of the automation suggestion, wherein predicting the progress data comprises:

receiving prediction training data comprising a plurality of automation suggestions comprising software solutions, the automation suggestions comprising requirements to implement a software technology in a process represented by the procedure data, correlated to a plurality of progress data;

training, iteratively, the prediction machine learning model as a function of the prediction training data; and

generating the progress data as a function of the prediction machine learning model; and

display the progress data using a display device.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein receiving the entity profile comprises extracting the entity profile using a web crawler.

3 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein generating the automation suggestion further comprises:

identifying a deficient task as function of the deficiency data;

determine an automation identifier as a function of the deficient task; and

generating the automation suggestion as a function of the automation identifier.

4 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the entity data comprises procedure data.

5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein predicting the progress data comprises predicting the progress data using an entity simulation.

6 . The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the entity simulation is generated using a simulation machine learning model.

7 . A method for a detection and improvement of deficiency data, wherein the method comprises:

receiving, using at least a processor, an entity profile from a user, wherein the entity profile comprises a plurality of entity data comprising data related to a corporation, wherein the entity data further comprises financial records of the corporation, wherein:

the entity profile is received from the user by extracting the entity profile using a chatbot; and

the chatbot is configured to respond to a chatbot input using a plurality of overlapping decision trees with interconnected nodes including shared intermediate nodes;

identifying, using the at least a processor, deficiency data as a function of the entity data, wherein the deficiency data is a deficient procedure associated with procedure data and wherein a determination of the deficient procedure is calculated by a deficiency quantifier utilizing a quantification classifier which further comprises:

receiving quantification training data, wherein the quantification training data correlates a plurality of entity profile data, entity data and procedure data to a plurality of examples of quantifier data;

training, iteratively, the quantification classifier using the quantification training data, wherein training the quantification classifier includes retraining the quantification classifier with feedback from previous iterations of the quantification classifier; and

generating the deficiency quantifier using the trained quantification classifier;

generating, using the at least a processor, an automation suggestion as a function of the deficiency data and the entity data, wherein the automation suggestion comprises a notification that a deficient program is solved using a technical solution to the deficiency, wherein generating the automation suggestion comprises generating an automation model, wherein generating the automation model further comprises:

training an automation machine learning model iteratively as a function of automation training data, wherein the automation training data comprises the deficiency data and the plurality of entity data as inputs and the automation suggestion as an output, and wherein a current state of the plurality of entity data and the entity profile is compared to previous iterations of the plurality of entity data and the entity profile; and

generating the automation suggestion as a function of the deficiency data and the plurality of entity data using the trained automation machine learning model, wherein the automation suggestion comprises a software solution, wherein the software solution further comprises a requirement to implement a software technology in a process represented by the procedure data;

predicting, using a prediction machine learning model, progress data associated with the deficiency data as function of the automation suggestion, wherein predicting the progress data comprises:

receiving prediction training data comprising a plurality of automation suggestions comprising software solutions, the automation suggestions comprising requirements to implement a software technology in a process represented by the procedure data, correlated to a plurality of progress data;

training, iteratively, the prediction machine learning model as a function of the prediction training data; and

generating the progress data as a function of the prediction machine learning model; and

displaying, using the at least a processor, the progress data a using a display device.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein receiving the entity profile comprises extracting the entity profile using a web crawler.

9 . The method of claim 7 , wherein generating the automation suggestion comprises:

identifying a deficient task as function of the deficiency data;

determine an automation identifier as a function of the deficient task; and

generating the automation suggestion as a function of the automation identifier.

10 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the entity data comprises procedure data.

11 . The method of claim 7 , wherein predicting the progress data comprises predicting the progress data using an entity simulation.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the entity simulation is generated using a 20 . simulation machine learning model.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 30, 2024
From: SMITH, BARBARA SUE; SULLIVAN, DANIEL J.
To: THE STRATEGIC COACH INC.
Reel/Frame 067098/0831 →
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