US 2024/0403829 A1Published application

Task-experience discovery

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Liceeeensing, LLC

InventorsTorbjørn HELVIK, Aleksander TORSTENSEN

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Abstract

The technology described herein identifies a user or user group with relevant experience for a yet to be completed task that is part of a project. The technology described herein improves on past efforts to identify users with relevant experience by considering the project context of an active task and a collaboration history of the user or user group. The technology builds a project-context oriented task description that includes the task description of the active task along with the task descriptions of other tasks within the project. The project-oriented task description is used to generate a vector embedding, which are used to identify similar tasks. Once a similar task is identified, the user or user group associated with the similar task are candidates to provide relevant experience. A collaboration network may be used to identify users who worked together previously on a task or project.

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Dependent claims

A computing system comprising:

a processor;
and
computer storage memory having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, configure the computing system to:
obtain, from computer storage associated with a project management program, a digital task record for an active task to be completed as part of a project, the digital task record associated with a user and including a textual task description;
obtain, from the computer storage associated with the project management program, additional descriptions from other elements in the project;
combine text from the textual task description with addition text from the additional descriptions to form a project-oriented task description for the active task;
generate, by a language model, a task embedding for the active task using the project-oriented task description;
determine a plurality of semantic similarity parameters using the task embedding and a plurality of task embeddings associated with a plurality of other tasks;
identify a plurality of tasks within a threshold semantic similarity to the task embedding using the plurality of semantic similarity parameters, wherein each of the plurality of tasks is associated with one or more users;
determine a relevance parameter for the one or more users;
identify a potential collaborator from the one or more users based on the relevance parameter;
and
provide a task insight comprising identification information for the potential collaborator to the user.

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One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method, the method comprising:

obtaining, from computer storage associated with a project management program, a digital task record for an active task to be completed as part of a project, the digital task record associated with a user and including a textual task description;
obtaining, from the computer storage associated with the project management program, additional descriptions from other elements in the project;
combining text from the textual task description with addition text from the additional descriptions to form a project-oriented task description for the active task;
generating, by a language model, a task embedding for the active task using the project-oriented task description;
identifying, from a collaboration network, a plurality of working groups that have worked together in the past;
for each working group, determining from historic-task records, one or more tasks with which a working group is associated;
comparing the task embedding to task embeddings associated with the one or more tasks to generate a group similarity parameters that quantifies a similarity between the active task and the one or more tasks;
identifying a potential working group from the plurality of working groups based on the group similarity parameter;
and
providing a task insight comprising identification information for the potential working group.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.