Patent AU-2018275026-B2 (AU)
Title: System and method for pattern-recognition based monitoring and controlled processing of data objects based on conformity measurements
Inventor: UNSWORTH RORY
IPC: G06Q40/08
Filed: 2018-12-10
Granted: 2020-12-10
Abstract: System And Method For Pattern-Recognition Based Monitoring and 
Controlled Processing of Data Objects Based on Conformity 
Measurements 
ABSTRACT 
A method for pattern-recognition based monitoring and state-transition-controlled processing of 
data objects based on conformity measurements, recognising, measuring and classifying 
automatically non-conforming workflow objects based on their measured level of non
conformity and dynamically reacting to changing environmental or internal conditions or 
measuring parameters, wherein the workflow of an underwriting system is monitored by 
capturing underwriting objects within a pathway of the underwriting process flow by means of a 
filtering module, wherein in the underwriting process flow for each underwriting process state 
one or more underwriting tasks are executed by the system in order to process the workflow 
object from one process state to a subsequent process state, and wherein an activation of 
additional process states is triggered upon the detection of non-conforming workflow objects by 
means of the control and monitoring system, wherein the method includes: generating a plurality 
of block elements based on predefined boundary conditions reflecting an overall risk and being 
provided by an automated underwriting system, and at least partially extracted data from 
historical data and/or simulated data, wherein the block elements are triggerable parts of 
workflow objects and comprise one or more of interconnectable search terms and/or meta-data, 
and wherein the block elements are assigned to a recognition block-map and stored by means of 
a first searchable data structure provided by a first database; providing a second database 
including a second searchable data structure for storing the plurality of workflow objects, and 
wherein the plurality of workflow objects stored within the second database are at least partly 
generated based on at least one of definable boundary condition parameters and historical 
workflow objects; capturing, by a control and monitoring system, a workflow object within the 
underwriting process system, wherein the control and monitoring system comprises a 
recognition module for content-scanning the captured workflow object to recognise the block 
elements of the stored recognition block-map in the captured workflow object, wherein the 
content scanning includes detecting that the captured workflow objection includes search terms, 
wherein the recognised block elements are triggered; content-scanning, for recognizing and 
identifying block elements by the recognition module, the captured workflow object and
triggering for block elements of the workflow objects by the stored block elements of the first 
searchable data structure, wherein triggered block elements of the captured workflow object are 
classified by means of a classification module, wherein associated entities are extracted by 
means of an entity module, and wherein detected search terms of the workflow object are 
flagged by means of a keyword flagging module; determining a respective proximity factor for 
each of the stored workflow objects stored in the second database relative to the block elements 
of the captured workflow object, wherein each proximity factor is a measure by matching 
recognised block elements of the captured workflow object with block elements of a workflow 
object of the second database, providing the measure for the proximity of the two workflow 
objects based on the mutually allocatable block elements; generating a conformity index which 
is assigned to the captured workflow object based on the recognized block elements conforming 
with the stored block elements of the first searchable data structure and the workflow objects of 
the second database, and wherein only workflow objects within a predefined range of the 
respective proximity factor are selected for generating the conformity index, wherein only 
workflow objects within a predefined range of the proximity factor are selected for generating 
the conformity index, and wherein the conformity index provides a measure of conformity of the 
captured workflow object with the predefined boundary conditions of the automated 
underwriting system, and triggering additional process states which are assigned to the 
workflow by a process management engine of the control and monitoring system when the 
conformity index exceeds a risk threshold value as established by a trigger module, thereby 
enabling technical systems to automatically control, steer and operate processed workflow 
objects within the underwriting process flow based on different state transitions of the captured 
workflow object.