Task Correlation Framework for Cross-Platform Code Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current solutions fail to efficiently analyze and manage tasks across disparate sources, leading to manual effort and inefficient use of computing resources in enterprise settings, as they struggle to correlate and interpret tasks from different platforms.

Innovation Solution

A method involving natural language processing techniques to extract and compare task data from multiple sources, identifying matching tasks and analyzing code to determine implementation, utilizing a framework that includes data extraction, standardization, comparison, and reporting engines to provide actionable insights.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual methods are used to document and update task commitments, then task management can be performed, but considerable manual effort and time are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetask management efficiencyVSAvoidmanual effort time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically extracts task data from multiple sources, compares tasks using NLP techniques, identifies matching tasks, and analyzes code implementation without requiring manual intervention. The framework performs self-service by autonomously managing task correlation across disparate platforms, eliminating the need for manual documentation and updating of task commitments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If current solutions are used to analyze tasks from disparate sources, then task analysis can be performed, but the solutions fail to effectively correlate and interpret tasks from different platforms

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetask correlation accuracyVSAvoidmulti-platform task analysis capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The framework is designed to handle tasks from multiple disparate sources including project management tools, issue tracking systems, and code repositories. It provides universal task correlation capability by extracting data from different platforms, standardizing the data format, and applying NLP techniques to identify matching tasks across diverse sources, thereby achieving both precision and adaptability.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The framework introduces an intermediary layer that standardizes task data from different platforms before comparison. This intermediary standardization process enables accurate correlation by translating diverse task formats into a common structure, allowing the NLP comparison to effectively identify matching tasks across disparate sources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Loss of information

If multiple data sources are monitored manually, then task data can be collected, but inefficient use of computing resources occurs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetask data completenessVSAvoidcomputing resource utilization
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The framework continuously monitors multiple data sources automatically, extracting task data on an ongoing basis without manual intervention. This continuous automated operation ensures complete task data collection while optimizing computing resource utilization through efficient data extraction and processing pipelines that operate continuously rather than through intermittent manual efforts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS11960927B2Task correlation framework
Publication Date: 2024.04.16 DELL PROD LP
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AI summary

A method comprises extracting first task data from a first data source corresponding to a first application and second task data from a second data source corresponding to a second application, and comparing the first task data to the second task data using one or more natural language processing techniques. In the method, one or more matching tasks between the first task data and the second task data are identified based at least in part on the comparing. Code of at least one of the first application and the second application is analyzed to determine whether the code of at least one of the first application and the second application implements the one or more matching tasks.