{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp04_retrieval_first_paired20_20260802","cell_id":"deadweight_loss_reduction__linguistics_semiotics","hypothesis_id":"H1","search_queries":["university shared instrument reservation demand-based credits peak off-peak scheduling","core facility equipment scheduling off-peak discount peak rate university","laboratory booking token credits priority users scheduling research equipment","phonetics lab recording booth reservation scheduling policy","site:.edu core facility \"off-peak\" \"peak\" instrument rates","shared facility booking \"credits\" priority reservation equipment","laboratory equipment booking demand pricing dynamic pricing patent","research core facility scheduling priority access policy instrument reservations"],"sources":[{"source_id":"PA-1","title":"Hours & Scheduling | Illinois Phonetics and Phonology Lab","publisher":"University of Illinois Department of Linguistics","url":"https://linguistics.illinois.edu/illinois-phonetics-phonology-lab/hours-scheduling","source_class":"OFFICIAL_ORGANIZATION_DATA","claims_supported":["The audiometric booth is described as the laboratory's highest-use facility.","The laboratory limits sound-booth reservations to two-hour blocks and requests tighter daily limits during the last five weeks of a semester, supporting congestion pressure but not establishing peak queues or off-peak vacancy."]},{"source_id":"PA-2","title":"Lab scheduling - Phonlab","publisher":"University of California, Berkeley PhonLab","url":"https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/plab/guestwiki/index.php?title=Lab_scheduling","source_class":"OFFICIAL_ORGANIZATION_DATA","claims_supported":["A phonetics laboratory uses calendars to reserve rooms, recording equipment, subject stations, and production equipment.","The lab asks users to limit experiment and total booked hours during weekday business hours, demonstrating quota-based rationing of shared phonetics resources."]},{"source_id":"PA-3","title":"Tufts NMR Center","publisher":"Tufts University School of Medicine","url":"https://medicine.tufts.edu/research/research-labs-centers/core-research-facilities/tufts-nmr-center","source_class":"OFFICIAL_ORGANIZATION_DATA","claims_supported":["A shared university instrument facility publishes lower off-peak than peak hourly rates.","The schedule simultaneously differentiates prices by institutional, nonprofit, and commercial user class, showing that temporal price differentiation can coexist with class-based access treatment."]},{"source_id":"PA-4","title":"Core Facilities Pricing","publisher":"UT Southwestern Medical Center","url":"https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/research/core-facilities/pricing/","source_class":"OFFICIAL_ORGANIZATION_DATA","claims_supported":["A university preclinical imaging core charges lower hourly rates for weekday off-peak and weekend self-operation than for weekday peak self-operation.","The pricing schedule also includes discounted overnight scans, confirming established time-differentiated pricing for bookable research equipment."]},{"source_id":"PA-5","title":"US20140278454A1 - Dynamic pricing of healthcare resources","publisher":"Google Patents","url":"https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140278454A1/en","source_class":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["The patent describes dynamically pricing appointment slots for resources such as MRI machines using historical and real-time supply-and-demand data.","It expressly targets the combination of idle off-hours capacity and high-demand periods by discounting low-demand slots and increasing prices during high demand."]},{"source_id":"PA-6","title":"Cost-Based Dynamic Allocation of Testing Equipment, US Patent Application 20260104975","publisher":"Justia Patents","url":"https://patents.justia.com/patent/20260104975","source_class":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["The application describes dynamically allocating and scheduling shared testing equipment using time-varying costs.","It also considers request criticality to prioritize users while improving efficient sharing, closely paralleling the hypothesis's combination of load-sensitive allocation and protected urgent use."]}],"proximity":"SUBSTANTIAL_COLLISION","closest_analogues":[{"name":"Peak/off-peak pricing at Tufts and UT Southwestern research cores","similarity":"Shared research instruments are reserved by time, with peak use priced above off-peak use to influence temporal allocation; Tufts also varies treatment by user class.","remaining_difference":"These are published cash-rate schedules rather than forecast-responsive noncash booking credits, and they do not document nontransferable clinical-priority credits in a phonetics laboratory.","source_ids":["PA-3","PA-4"]},{"name":"Dynamic pricing of healthcare-resource appointment slots","similarity":"The patent forecasts or observes demand, assigns different prices to bookable equipment slots, discounts idle off-hours, and raises prices during high-demand periods.","remaining_difference":"It uses monetary healthcare pricing and does not disclose the proposed noncash-credit budget or an explicit protected-user credit grant.","source_ids":["PA-5"]},{"name":"Cost-based dynamic allocation with request criticality","similarity":"The patent application dynamically schedules shared testing equipment using time-sensitive costs while incorporating request criticality for priority allocation.","remaining_difference":"It allocates remote test devices through an optimization model rather than letting phonetics-lab users self-sort through forecast-load booking credits.","source_ids":["PA-6"]},{"name":"Existing phonetics-laboratory calendars and booking quotas","similarity":"Phonetics laboratories already reserve recording resources by time and impose booking limits when demand is high.","remaining_difference":"The examined phonetics policies use calendars and quotas, not load-varying credits, and provide no direct evidence of simultaneous peak queues and off-peak vacancy.","source_ids":["PA-1","PA-2"]}],"overlapping_components":["Bookable shared-equipment time slots","Peak/off-peak access differentiation","Historical or real-time demand inputs","Idle-capacity utilization objective","Reservation and scheduling interface","Priority or criticality-based access protection","User-class differentiation","Booking quotas for congested periods"],"remaining_contrastive_claim":"No examined source documented a phonetics laboratory combining forecast-load-denominated noncash booking credits with nontransferable credits reserved for clinical-priority users.","claim_falsifier":"A pre-existing phonetics-laboratory policy, product deployment, patent, or research report showing forecast-responsive noncash slot prices together with ring-fenced, nontransferable priority-user credits would falsify the remaining contrastive claim.","problem_support":"WEAK","recommendation":"REJECT","world_novelty_boundary":"The bounded eight-query search establishes that shared phonetics-resource booking and congestion limits exist, and that peak/off-peak research-equipment pricing, forecast-driven appointment pricing, and criticality-aware equipment allocation are already documented separately or in close combinations. Only the exact phonetics-specific noncash-credit implementation was not located; that narrow absence does not establish world novelty, while the asserted simultaneous peak queues and off-peak vacancy remain unsupported by direct utilization data."}