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Microsoft patents system that groups support tickets by fix commands

Microsoft describes a system that organizes past support tickets into groups based on the specific commands used to fix them, rather than the words in the problem description. It then trains a machine learning model to recognize new problems and suggest the correct fix commands from the matching group.

Why it mattersThis approach could help support teams resolve technical issues faster by automatically suggesting proven solutions based on how similar problems were previously fixed.

In the filing’s own words

Systems and methods for providing ticket support using a machine learning model trained using clusters of support tickets that are clustered based on similarity of resolution commands are provided. The system extracts commands used to resolve prior tickets and creates clusters of resolved tickets based on similarity of the commands. For each cluster, problem statements are extracted from the resolved tickets. The system trains a machine learning model with the extracted problem statements to identify a cluster number for each cluster. With a new support ticket, the system extracts a problem statement from the new ticket and identifies a predicted cluster number by applying the trained machine learning mode! to the problem statement from the new ticket. Based on the predicted cluster number, one or more commands used to resolve the prior tickets in the cluster corresponding to the predicted cluster number are accessed and provided to a requesting user.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: extracting, by a network system, commands used to resolve technical problems indicated in a plurality of resolved support tickets, a technical problem comprising an issue experienced in a technical system, each of the commands comprising at least one instruction that causes the network system to perform one or more operations; creating, by one or more hardware processors of the network system, clusters of resolved support tickets based on similarity of the at least one instruction associated with each of the commands used to resolve technical problems that have been extracted from the plurality of resolved support tickets and not based on problem statements in the resolved support tickets, the problem statements each indicating the technical problem, the clusters further based on a number of words in the at least one instruction associated with each of the commands; for each cluster of the resolved support tickets, extracting, by the network system, the problem statements from the resolved support tickets in the same cluster; training, by the network system, a machine learning model with training data comprising the extracted problem statements from the resolved tickets that have been clustered together based on common commands, each of the common commands comprising at least one common instruction that causes the network system to perform one or more common operations, a cluster number for each cluster and a vector representing the extracted problem statements for each cluster; maintaining the machine learning model for use during runtime to resolve technical problems by applying the machine learning model to a problem statement extracted from a new support ticket; applying the common commands that correspond to the technical problems based on clusters identified by the machine learning model; identifying feedback indicative of whether the common commands successfully resolved the technical problem; and based on the feedback, automatically retraining the machine learning model by changing a number of the clusters.

Facts

Company
Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
Official title
Ticket troubleshooting support system
Patent number
US12762513B2
Application number
18547328
Filed
Feb 21, 2022
Granted
Oct 13, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
17

Classified under

G06Q 10/10 Physics & computingG06Q 10/20 Physics & computing

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