Associating product with document using document linkage data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11372894-B2
Application number	US-201916369095-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 29, 2019
Priority date	Dec 21, 2018
Publication date	Jun 28, 2022
Grant date	Jun 28, 2022

Abstract

A product may be associated with a linked document, a link to which is included in a linking document. Associating the linked document with the product may include accessing document linkage data, identifying a relevant linkage record from the linkage data, using a linking document identifier determined from the relevant linkage record to access linking document information in respect of the linking document, processing the linking document information to identify a first product to which the first linking document relates, and associating the first product with the linked document.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for associating product information with a first document, the method comprising:
determining a first document identifier of the first document from a first document record associated with the first document, the first document and the first document record stored in a same data store;
identifying a second document, the second document being an issue ticket of an issue tracking system and comprising user-generated content in one or more editable fields of the second document, the user-generated content including a user-generated specification of an issue in computer code of a software product and a user-generated link to the first document, the identifying the second document comprising:
accessing document linkage data, the document linkage data including one or more linkage records, each linkage record of the one or more linkage records providing a respective linking document identifier and a respective linked document identifier, the respective linking document identifier identifying a linking document which includes a corresponding link to a linked document identified by the respective linked document identifier;
identifying, from the document linkage data, a relevant linkage record for which the respective linked document identifier corresponds to the first document identifier; and
extracting a linking document identifier from the relevant linkage record, the linking document identifier corresponding to a second document identifier of the second document;

using the second document identifier to access a second document record associated with of the second document;
processing the second document record to identify the software product associated with the second document; and
in response to identifying the software product associated with the second document, modifying the first document record to associate the software product with the first document.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein:
the user-generated link is a first user-generated link;
the issue ticket is a first issue ticket;
the software product is a first software product; and
the method further comprises:
identifying a third document, the third document being a second issue ticket of the issue tracking system and comprising a second user-generated link to the first document;
processing a third document record associated with the third document to identify a second software product associated with the third document; and
determining whether the second software product is the same as the first software product.

3. The computer-implemented method according to claim 2 , wherein in response to determining that the second software product is not the same as the first software product the method further comprises:
associating a multi-product value with the first document, the multi-product value indicating that the first document is associated with multiple software products.

4. The computer-implemented method according to claim 2 , wherein in response to determining that the second software product is not the same as the first software product the method further comprises:
modifying the first document record to associate the second software product with the first document.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the document linkage data is generated by accessing accessible documents and for each accessible document:
scraping the accessible document to identify one or more user-generated links in the accessible document; and
for each user-generated link in the accessible document, generating a linkage record including an identifier of the accessible document and an identifier of the linked document.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the first document is an article comprising user-generated content relating to the software product.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , wherein the second document and the second document record are stored in the same data store as the first document and the first document record.

8. A computer system comprising:
a processor;
a communication interface; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing sequences of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to implement a method comprising:
determining a first document identifier of a first document from a first document record associated with the first document, the first document record and the first document stored a same data store;
identifying a second document that, the second document being an issue ticket of an issue tracking system and comprising user-generated content in one or more editable fields of the second document, the user-generated content including a user-generated specification of an issue in computer code of a software product and a user-generated link to the first document, the identifying the second document comprising:
accessing document linkage data, the document linkage data including one or more linkage records, each linkage record of the one or more linkage records providing a respective linking document identifier and a respective linked document identifier, the respective linking document identifier identifying a linking document which includes a corresponding link to a linked document identified by the respective linked document identifier;
identifying, from the document linkage data, a relevant linkage record for which the respective linked document identifier corresponds to the first document identifier;
extracting a linking document identifier from the first relevant linkage record, the linking document identifier corresponding to a second document identifier of the second document;

using the second document identifier to access a second document record associated with the second document;
processing the second document record to identify the software product associated with the second document; and
in response to identifying the software product associated with the second document, modifying the first document record to associate the software product with the first document.

9. The computer system of claim 8 , wherein:
the user-generated link is a first user-generated link;
the issue ticket is a first issue ticket;
the software product is a first software product; and
the method the sequences of instructions cause the processor to implement further comprises:
identifying a third document, the third document being a second issue ticket of the issue tracking system and comprising a second user-generated link to the first document;
processing a third document record associated with the third document to identify a second software product associated with the third document; and
determining whether the second software product is the same as the first software product.

10. The computer system according to claim 9 , wherein in response to determining that the second software product is not the same as the first software product the method the sequences of instructions cause the processor to implement further comprises:
associating a multi-product value with the first document, the multi-product value indicating that the first document is associated with multiple software products.

11. The computer system according to claim 9 , wherein in response to determining that the second software product is not the same as the first software product the method the sequences of instructions cause the processor to implement further comprises:
modifying the first document record to associate the second software product with the first document.

12. The computer system of claim 8 , wherein the document l

Assignees

• Atlassian Pty Ltd
• Atlassian Inc

Inventors

• Sims Geoff
• Fulthorp Michael
• Ortman Mike
• Nelson Jeff
• Hunter Matthew

Classifications

• H04L41/5074 Primary

  Handling of user complaints or trouble tickets · CPC title

• G06F16/285 Primary

  Clustering or classification · CPC title

• G06F40/284

  Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates · CPC title

• G06F16/3347

  using vector based model · CPC title

• G06F16/93

  Document management systems · CPC title