AI Prioritization of Wireless Network Issue Tickets

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current telecommunication networks lack the ability to prioritize user-reported issues effectively, as they do not have information on the level of importance or urgency perceived by users, leading to inefficient allocation of resources for issue resolution.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that dynamically and automatically determine the priority of user-reported issues based on historical data, including user behavior and network performance, using AI to assess the probability of users disengaging from the network if issues are not resolved quickly, thereby prioritizing tickets for the engineering team.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a default priority is assigned to all issue tickets, then the ticketing system is simple and easy to operate, but the engineering team cannot effectively prioritize issues based on user importance levels

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveticketing system operationVSAvoiduser issue importance information
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically determines issue priority by analyzing user-reported symptoms and comparing them against a knowledge base of known issues and their impacts, eliminating the need for manual priority assignment by the engineering team while capturing critical information about user importance levels

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The manual mechanical process of engineering team members reviewing and assigning priorities is replaced with an automated computer-based system that uses symptom matching and impact analysis to determine priority levels, improving both efficiency and information accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Measurement precision

If the engineering team manually reviews all issue tickets to determine priority, then accurate priority assessment is achieved, but the process becomes time-consuming and reduces productivity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveissue priority assessment accuracyVSAvoidengineering team issue resolution speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of issue symptoms and automatically determines priority levels before tickets reach the engineering team, so that when engineers do review tickets, the priority is already established based on objective criteria, maintaining accuracy while speeding up the overall process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses a knowledge base that is continuously updated with information about known issues, their symptoms, and their impacts on users, creating a feedback loop where resolved issues improve future priority determination accuracy without requiring manual engineering review for each new ticket

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12010525B2Prioritizing an issue reported by a user of a wireless telecommunication network
Publication Date: 2024.06.11 T MOBILE US INC
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AI summary

The disclosed system and method obtain a report of an issue reported by a user of the wireless telecommunication network, and historical information associated with the user and the wireless telecommunication network. The historical information includes multiple issues reported by users similar to the user, and multiple user statuses associated with the users similar to the user. The user status among the multiple user statuses includes active and inactive, indicating whether the user is an active member of the telecommunication network or has left the network. The system provides the historical information to an AI model, and obtains from the AI model a priority associated with the issue experienced by the user. The system causes a resolution of the issue based on the priority.