Automated Fact Replacement and Style Consistency Tool

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional document management systems rely heavily on human involvement, leading to inevitable human errors in maintaining factual and stylistic consistency across multiple digital documents, resulting in the propagation of incorrect information and inconsistencies.

Innovation Solution

A fact replacement and style consistency tool utilizing natural language processing techniques identifies inconsistencies at a sentence level across multiple documents, generating a user interface to indicate and rectify factual and stylistic inconsistencies, thereby eliminating human errors and ensuring consistency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional document management systems rely on human involvement to identify and make factual changes, then users can review and approve changes, but human errors occur leading to propagation of incorrect information

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefactual accuracyVSAvoidmanual review process
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-correction by automatically detecting factual inconsistencies and generating corrections without human intervention. The computer implementation compares information across documents, identifies discrepancies, and proposes fixes, enabling the system to service itself rather than relying on manual human review.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical human review process with a computer-based automated system. Instead of manual comparison and verification by human users, the system uses computational algorithms to detect inconsistencies and generate corrections, substituting human cognitive processes with automated mechanical operations.

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

2Productivity

If manual review processes are used to maintain consistency across documents, then changes can be approved by collaborating users, but the process is time-consuming and error-prone

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedocument update speedVSAvoidreview time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of inconsistencies before documents are propagated or published. By identifying and correcting factual discrepancies in advance, the system prevents errors from spreading across multiple documents, eliminating the need for time-consuming post-publication corrections and manual review cycles.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The automated inconsistency detection operates continuously as documents are created or modified, rather than requiring intermittent manual review. The system maintains constant surveillance of document consistency, immediately detecting and flagging discrepancies without interruption to the document creation workflow.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Measurement precision

If human users manually review documents for factual consistency, then changes can be made, but human errors are inevitable leading to propagation of incorrect information

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefactual consistency detectionVSAvoidmanual review system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements automated feedback loops where inconsistencies are detected, corrections are generated, and the impact of changes is propagated to related documents. This continuous feedback mechanism ensures factual consistency across the entire document set without requiring complex manual review coordination between multiple users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11194958B2Fact replacement and style consistency tool
Publication Date: 2021.12.07 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

A fact replacement and style consistency tool is described. Rather than rely heavily on human involvement to replace facts and maintain consistent styles across multiple digital documents, the described change management system identifies factual and stylistic inconsistencies between these documents, in part, using natural language processing techniques. Once these inconsistencies are identified, the change management system generates a user interface that includes indications of the inconsistencies and information describing them, e.g., an indication noting not only a type of inconsistency but also presenting a first portion and at least a second portion of the multiple documents that are factually inconsistent. By automatically identifying these factual and stylistic inconsistencies across multiple documents and presenting indications of such cross-document inconsistencies, the described change management system eliminates human errors in connection with maintaining factual and stylistic consistency over a body of documents.