Product Impact Analysis System for Risk Quantification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Organizations face challenges in assessing the impact of various products on their operations, as each product imposes different requirements and resources, leading to varying risk levels that affect overall system risk, which existing technologies fail to effectively quantify and summarize for user review.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that utilize natural language processing to parse features from product data, generate product profiles, and calculate risk assessment data by analyzing the impact of products on risk metrics, including threat, legal, liability, and vulnerability risks, providing cumulative risk scores for informed decision-making.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If organizations manually assess product impact on operations, then they can understand individual product risks, but the process becomes time-consuming and cannot effectively quantify overall system risk

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverisk quantification accuracyVSAvoidassessment time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the overall risk assessment process into distinct components: product feature extraction, product profiling, risk metric identification, and impact analysis. Each component processes specific data elements independently, enabling parallel execution and reducing overall assessment time while maintaining comprehensive coverage of risk factors

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual mechanical assessment processes with automated computational systems. Natural language processing algorithms automatically extract features from product data, generate product profiles, and calculate risk metrics without human intervention, dramatically reducing assessment time while improving consistency and precision

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

2Reliability

If organizations analyze detailed product features to assess risks, then they achieve comprehensive risk understanding, but the complexity of the analysis process increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverisk assessment completenessVSAvoidanalysis system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating standardized product profiles from raw product data before conducting risk assessment. This pre-processing step organizes unstructured product information into consistent formats, reducing the complexity of subsequent risk analysis while ensuring comprehensive feature coverage

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Product profiles serve as an intermediary layer between raw product data and risk assessment algorithms. The profiles consolidate extracted features into structured representations that bridge the gap between detailed product information and risk metric calculations, simplifying the overall system architecture while maintaining assessment completeness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Loss of information

If organizations use existing risk assessment methods, then they can identify some risk factors, but they fail to provide cumulative risk scores for informed decision-making

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverisk information completenessVSAvoiddecision-making ease
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges multiple individual risk metric assessments into a unified cumulative risk score. By aggregating results from various risk dimensions (threat, legal, liability, vulnerability) into a single comprehensive metric, the system provides complete risk information in an easily interpretable format that facilitates informed decision-making

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms complex multi-dimensional risk data into simplified risk score parameters. By changing the representation from detailed individual risk factors to aggregated risk scores with clear numerical values, the system maintains information completeness while dramatically improving ease of interpretation and decision-making

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10664784B2Analyzing product impact on a system
Publication Date: 2020.05.26 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

A method, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory, for analyzing product impact, the method comprising receiving, by the data processing system, data representative of an entity's operations, receiving, by the data processing system, a selection of one or more products, parsing, by the data processing system, features of the one or more products from product data input, and generating, by the data processing system, product profiles for the one or more products based on the parsed features. The method further comprising generating, by the data processing system, risk assessment data based on the data representative of the entity's operations and the product profiles, the risk assessment data including an indication of one or more changes in risk metrics of one or more risk components associated with the entity's operations by offering the one or more products.