Fallout Aggregation System for Telecommunication Ordering

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Solution Overview

Problem

Telecommunication service providers face challenges with complex ordering systems that lead to fallout issues, requiring efficient and cost-effective solutions to manage fallout errors and improve customer satisfaction.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for aggregating fallout errors in an ordering system by maintaining a repository of errors, automatically detecting fallout events, and determining their association with existing errors, allowing for alerting administrators and updating the repository with severity priority information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a centralized fallout aggregation system is implemented, then fallout management efficiency is improved and customer satisfaction is enhanced, but system complexity and implementation cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefallout management efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple fallout detection and management functions into a single centralized aggregation system that consolidates fallout data from multiple sources and processes, thereby improving overall fallout management efficiency while reducing redundant operations across different systems

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The aggregation system is designed to perform multiple functions including automatic fallout detection, event correlation, severity assessment, and automated alerting through a single unified platform, making the system highly versatile and reducing the need for multiple separate specialized systems

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Loss of time

If automatic fallout detection and aggregation is implemented, then response time to fallout issues is reduced, but computational resources and processing power increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse time to fallout issuesVSAvoidcomputational resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-configures fallout detection rules, event correlation criteria, and alerting thresholds before fallout events occur, allowing for rapid automatic detection and response when issues arise without requiring intensive real-time computational analysis for each individual event

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The aggregation system continuously monitors fallout events and automatically adjusts its detection and alerting behavior based on learned patterns and historical data, improving response efficiency over time while optimizing computational resource utilization through adaptive processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10296967B1System, method, and computer program for aggregating fallouts in an ordering system
Publication Date: 2019.05.21 AMDOCS DEV LTD
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AI summary

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for aggregating fallouts in an ordering system. In use, a repository of fallout errors associated with an ordering system is maintained. Further, one or more fallout events associated with the ordering system are automatically detected. Additionally, it is determined that the one or more detected fallout events are associated with at least one fallout error associated with processing an order in the ordering system. Furthermore, it may be determined whether the at least one fallout error corresponds to one of a plurality of stored fallout errors stored in the repository of fallout errors, in response to determining that the one or more detected fallout events are associated with the at least one fallout error from processing an order in the ordering system.