US 12,118,026 B2
Rule based de-duplication of software system defects
Michael Skelton, Pimpama (AU)
Assigned to BUGCROWD INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Bugcrowd Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/179,170.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/317,463, filed on Mar. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0281233 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 16/215 (2019.01); G06F 40/194 (2020.01); G06F 40/20 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 16/338 (2019.01) [G06F 11/3604 (2013.01); G06F 11/3692 (2013.01); G06F 16/215 (2019.01); G06F 40/194 (2020.01); G06F 40/20 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer implemented method for de-duplication of system defects, the method comprising:
storing records describing system defects for a plurality of external systems, each system defect associated with an external system;
configuring a user interface for display via a client device, the user interface displaying information stored in records describing system defects;
receiving, one or more de-duplication rules, each de-duplication rule configured to receive a description of an input system defect and determine whether the input system defect is a duplicate of an original system defect associated with the de-duplication rule, the de-duplication rule specifying one or more regular expressions, wherein the input system defect is determined to be a duplicate responsive to satisfying the one or more regular expressions;
executing a particular de-duplication rule configured to determine duplicate system defects for a particular system defect associated with a particular external system, the executing comprising whether a target system defect specified for the particular external system satisfies the one or more regular expressions specified by the de-duplication rule;
determining based on the execution of the one or more regular expressions that the target system defect specified for the particular external system is a duplicate of the particular system defect; and
storing in a record describing the target system defect, information indicating that the target system defect is a duplicate.