Proactive Defect Detection via Sentiment and NLP Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Digital applications often face defects that go undetected until users report issues, leading to negative feedback and reputation damage, especially in public environments where traditional defect reporting channels are not effective.

Innovation Solution

A multi-data analysis based proactive defect detection and resolution system that uses sentiment analysis, natural language processing, and event flow data to identify potential defects and trigger corrective actions, linking consumer feedback with application development data to generate defect tickets and modify application code.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional defect reporting channels are used in public environments, then users can report issues, but defects remain undetected until users report them causing negative feedback and reputation damage

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedefect detection capabilityVSAvoidtime to detect defects
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of application behavior, user interactions, and operational data before defects manifest as user-reported issues. By continuously monitoring and analyzing data patterns, the system detects potential defects proactively, enabling resolution before they impact users and cause reputation damage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a feedback mechanism that continuously collects operational data, user interactions, and application performance metrics. This feedback loop enables the system to learn from ongoing operations and automatically detect anomalies indicating defects, transforming passive defect reporting into active defect detection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If multi-data analysis is performed to proactively detect defects, then defect detection capability improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedefect detection capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex analysis task into distinct functional modules: data collection module, data processing module, analysis module, and defect detection module. Each module handles specific aspects of the analysis, making the overall system more manageable and maintainable while achieving comprehensive multi-data analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces intermediary components such as data processors and analysis engines that bridge raw data and defect detection. These intermediaries simplify the complexity by providing structured processing pipelines and standardized interfaces between different system components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If sentiment analysis and natural language processing are used to analyze consumer feedback, then defect identification accuracy improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedefect identification accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies sentiment analysis and natural language processing selectively to relevant portions of consumer feedback rather than analyzing all feedback uniformly. By identifying and focusing on feedback that contains defect-related signals, the system achieves high accuracy while minimizing unnecessary processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts processing parameters such as analysis depth, sampling rates, and threshold values based on data characteristics and system load. This allows the system to maintain high defect identification accuracy while optimizing processing time through parameter tuning.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10346282B2Multi-data analysis based proactive defect detection and resolution
Publication Date: 2019.07.09 ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES LTD
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AI summary

Multi-data analysis based proactive defect detection and resolution may include analyzing operational data for an application to determine whether a functionality related to the application is below a predetermined threshold associated with the functionality related to the application, and based on the analysis, generating an indication to perform defect analysis related to the functionality related to the application. A sentiment analysis may be performed on consumer data related to the application to determine a sentiment of the consumer data related to the application, and a natural language processing (NLP) analysis may be performed on the consumer data related to the application to determine a function associated with a negative sentiment. Application code and process data related to the application may be analyzed to determine a defect associated with the application. Further, a code of the application may be modified to correct the defect associated with the application.