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Patent No.:

US 11074090 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2021

Filed:

May. 09, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Garfield Vaughn, South Windsor, CT (US);

Gandhi Sivakumar, Bentleigh, AU;

Vasanthi M. Gopal, Plainsboro, NJ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/451 (2018.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/58 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/453 (2018.02); G06F 16/5866 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); H04L 51/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for aiding a user in troubleshooting a problem includes extracting one or more entities and actions from a problem statement received from a user computing device, wherein, in response to the extracting: mapping, the one or more entities and actions to one or more images related to the one or more entities and actions, and ordering, the one or more entities and actions into a user action sequence, creating a pictorial sequence of user-taken actions to correct the problem, comparing the pictorial sequence of user-taken actions to correct the problem with a correct pictorial sequence to correct the problem, to identify a correct action that the user failed to perform, and isolating a portion of the correct pictorial sequence that corresponds to the correct action that the user failed to perform, for displaying to the user on the user computing system.


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