Document Provenance Scoring via Section Weighting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current document change tracking systems in content management systems treat all document changes equally, regardless of section importance, leading to inefficient and costly manual reviews, as changes in less significant sections require thorough evaluation alongside minor changes.
Innovation Solution
A system that partitions documents into sections, assigns weight values based on importance, calculates change scores for each section, and combines these to generate an overall change score, indicating the degree of changes, thereby streamlining the review process by distinguishing between significant and insignificant changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If all document changes are treated equally in change tracking, then the change measurement is simple and uniform, but the review process becomes inefficient and costly due to unnecessary detailed evaluation of minor changes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by assigning different weight values to different sections of the document based on their importance. Critical sections receive higher weights while less important sections receive lower weights. This allows the change tracking system to differentiate between significant and minor changes locally, improving review efficiency without requiring complete system restructuring.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of change measurement from uniform word count to weighted section scores. By introducing weight values as a new parameter that varies by section, the system can prioritize changes in important sections while minimizing the impact of changes in less critical sections, thereby reducing unnecessary review workload.
2Measurement precision
If manual review is used to evaluate all changes, then the accuracy of change significance assessment is high, but the time and cost required for review increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by automatically calculating weighted change scores for all document sections before the review process begins. This pre-processing step quantifies the significance of changes in each section, allowing reviewers to quickly identify which changes require detailed attention and which can be reviewed more efficiently, thereby reducing overall review time while maintaining assessment accuracy.
3Reliability
If detailed review is performed on all document changes, then the quality of document approval is maintained, but the review process becomes time-consuming and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables continuous useful action by implementing an automated weighted scoring system that continuously evaluates changes across all document sections. This allows the system to maintain high document approval quality through consistent application of weight-based assessment while significantly increasing review throughput by eliminating the need for uniform detailed review of all changes.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product is provided for optimizing a document change or provenance scoring system by weighting sections of a document, scoring the changes for each section, and then combining the change scores for each section to generate an overall change score. An associated report may also be generated that catalogs all of the various scoring elements. The weighted score is stored in a document management system and provides a human document reviewer a level of detail to evaluate document changes. Accordingly, the weighted score reveals whether a document's changes require a brief or detailed review before the document's changes are approved for a next document version.