| CPC G06F 16/38 (2019.01) [G06F 11/0793 (2013.01); G06F 16/3344 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A computer-implemented method for finding historically similar incidents in a system, the method comprising:
receiving a data object indicating an occurrence of a current incident associated with a configurable item, the data object including current incident metadata, the current incident metadata including a configurable item identifier (ID), a configurable item name, and a description of the current incident;
receiving a plurality of historical data objects corresponding to a plurality of previous incidents, each of the plurality of historical data objects indicating an occurrence of a previous incident and including previous incident metadata, the previous incident metadata including a configurable item ID, a configurable item name, and a description of the previous incident;
determining one or more historical data objects, of the plurality of historical data objects, that are similar to the data object based on a comparison of the current incident metadata to the previous incident metadata, wherein the one or more historical data objects include a plurality of lists of historical data object, each list corresponding to a particular metadata association, wherein each list is determined by a particular current incident metadata's similarity to the corresponding metadata of the historical incident metadata;
generating a score for each of the one or more historical data objects based on the comparison of the current incident metadata to the previous incident metadata; and
outputting the one or more historical data objects that are similar to the data object to a user via a graphical user interface (GUI).
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