Unified Self-Help System for Multi-System Content Search

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current customer self-help systems are inefficient due to content duplication and redundancy across multiple data management systems offered by the same provider, leading to increased storage costs and poor search performance, as each system operates independently without an effective method to identify and share relevant content.

Innovation Solution

The use of special data training sets, operational models, and algorithms to probabilistically identify and share potentially common relevant content across multiple customer self-help systems, leveraging AI and machine learning to analyze and filter relevant data in response to user queries, thereby reducing the need to search large volumes of irrelevant content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple customer self-help systems are operated independently for different data management systems, then each system can be maintained as a separate business unit, but content duplication and redundancy occur across systems

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveindependence of self-help systemsVSAvoidredundant content storage
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple independent customer self-help systems into a unified system that serves multiple data management systems. A single self-help system is implemented that can dynamically adapt to serve different data management systems, eliminating the need for separate independent systems and reducing content duplication across systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The self-help system is designed with universal functionality to serve multiple data management systems simultaneously. It implements dynamic configuration capabilities that allow the same system to adapt to different data management systems' requirements, making one system perform multiple functions that previously required separate systems.

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

2Measurement precision

If all self-help content from multiple systems is searched to ensure comprehensive coverage, then user query accuracy improves, but search performance and processing time deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequery response accuracyVSAvoidsearch processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The unified self-help system segments content by associating it with specific data management systems through configuration data. When a user submits a query, the system segments the search space by identifying which data management system the query relates to and only searching relevant content, rather than searching all content from all systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary classification and organization of self-help content during ingestion, tagging content with associated data management system identifiers. This preliminary action enables efficient filtering and targeted searching later, avoiding the need to scan all content when responding to queries.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If separate self-help systems are maintained for each data management system, then system independence is preserved, but storage costs and maintenance complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem independenceVSAvoidnumber of self-help systems
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal self-help system that can serve multiple data management systems through dynamic configuration. The system maintains independence and adaptability to different data management systems while being implemented as a single unified platform, reducing the number of separate systems from multiple to one.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The self-help system implements dynamic configuration capabilities that allow it to adapt its behavior and content filtering based on which data management system is being accessed. The system can dynamically adjust its parameters, content selection, and response generation to match the specific requirements of different data management systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11093951B1System and method for responding to search queries using customer self-help systems associated with a plurality of data management systems
Publication Date: 2021.08.17 INTUIT INC
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AI summary

A customer self-help system employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify self-help content that is responsive to a user query by analyzing and searching a plurality of customer self-help systems. The customer self-help system generates a self-help relationship model by applying one or more processes/algorithms on training set data. In response to a user query, the customer self-help system identifies ones of the plurality of customer self-help systems that are relevant to the user query and searches the relevant ones of the plurality of customer self-help systems for self-help content that is responsive to the user query. The customer self-help system then provides the self-help content to the user in response to receipt of the user query from the user.