Videoconferencing Incident Alert System Using Machine Learning Prediction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Videoconferencing solutions experience irregular operations due to hardware or software issues, making it difficult for users to diagnose and resolve incidents, leading to productivity losses and increased downtime.

Innovation Solution

A system that generates incident alerts by analyzing operational data using machine learning processing, predicting incidents, and providing notifications and recommendations to technicians and service centers to prevent and resolve issues before they impact the session.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users manually diagnose and resolve incidents, then they can address hardware or software issues, but it leads to productivity losses and increased downtime due to lack of knowledge and difficulty in diagnosis

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveincident resolution capabilityVSAvoiduser productivity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automatic self-diagnosis and self-reporting of incidents through machine learning processing of operational data. The videoconferencing solution automatically detects irregular operations, identifies potential causes, and generates incident alerts without requiring user intervention for diagnosis, thus resolving the contradiction between maintaining reliability and preserving productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual user diagnosis and resolution actions with an automated machine learning-based incident alert system. The mechanical process of users manually troubleshooting is substituted by an automated computational system that processes operational data, predicts incidents, and notifies appropriate personnel, thereby eliminating productivity loss while maintaining system reliability.

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

2Reliability

If technicians and service centers respond to incidents, then they can resolve issues, but it increases downtime due to lack of proactive prevention and available resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveincident resolution capabilityVSAvoiddowntime
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by proactively predicting incidents before they occur through machine learning analysis of operational data. By identifying potential failures in advance and generating alerts with diagnostic information, the system enables technicians to prepare and respond more efficiently, reducing actual downtime when incidents occur.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements continuous feedback loops by monitoring operational data, analyzing it through machine learning models, and generating incident alerts that provide technicians with diagnostic information. This feedback mechanism enables proactive incident management and reduces downtime by providing timely, actionable information to service personnel.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If the system monitors and analyzes operational data to predict incidents, then it can provide proactive alerts, but it increases device complexity and data processing requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveincident prediction capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system achieves universality by implementing a multi-functional machine learning platform that handles data collection, processing, incident prediction, and alert generation within a single integrated architecture. This universal system serves multiple videoconferencing solutions and performs diverse functions, reducing overall system complexity compared to having separate specialized systems for each function.

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

Data Source

PatentUS20230188407A1Incident alerts
Publication Date: 2023.06.15 HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP
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AI summary

In some examples, a non-transitory machine-readable medium stores machine-readable instructions, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive operational data of a videoconferencing solution, to predict, utilizing a machine learning process on the operational data, an incident of the videoconferencing solution, and to generate, based on the prediction, an incident alert.