IP Library Granted Patent US 11,504,852
Granted Patent B2
US 11,504,852 · App. 17/070,925 · Granted Nov 22, 2022

System and method for detecting and fixing robotic process automation failures

Inventors: David Geffen (Givat Shmuel, IL); Lior Epstein (Kibbutz Ein Shemer, IL); Gal Tesler (Zihron Yaakov, IL)
Assignee: NICE LTD
B25J9/1674B25J9/1661G06F11/07G06F16/00
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Patent No.
US 11,504,852
App. No.
17/070,925
Granted
Nov 22, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system and method for detecting and fixing robotic process automation failures, including collecting tasks from at least one client computerized device, processing the tasks via robotic process automation, collecting tasks that failed to complete per task type, recording successful execution steps per each of the failed tasks, evaluating the recorded successful execution steps with respect to the failed task types, and providing selected execution steps that best fix the failed tasks, thereby fixing the robotic process automation failures.

Claims (27)

1. A system for detecting and fixing robotic process automation failures, said system comprising:

a task queue database configured to collect and store tasks from at least one client computerized device;

a robotic process automation unit configured to pull tasks from the task queue database for replacing a human representative by processing said tasks;

a failed tasks queue database configured to collect and store tasks and data on tasks that the robotic process automation unit failed to accomplish; and

a failure evaluation processor configured to collect said failed tasks per task type and to receive recordings of successful execution steps per each of the failed tasks; and

a real-time database configured to store data on successfully completed tasks by the robotic process automation unit,

wherein the failure evaluation processor is further configured to evaluate the recorded successful execution steps with respect to the failed task types, in order to provide selected execution steps that best fix the tasks that the robotic process automation unit failed to accomplish, wherein the selected execution steps are provided according to an assigned commonality score to at least one pair of succeeding steps which are above a predefined threshold, and

the robotic process automation unit is further configured to fix the robotic process automation failures according to the selected execution steps.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the failure evaluation processor is configured to compare execution steps of the same task types.

3. The system according to claim 2 , wherein the failure evaluation processor is further configured to aggregate the execution steps of the same task types in order to calculate percentage of commonalities between the execution steps per type of task.

4. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the system further comprises a robotic process control unit configured to receive data from the failure evaluation processor, which receives data from the robotic process automation unit and from the failed tasks queue database.

5. The system according to claim 4 , wherein the robotic process control unit is further configured to provide data on number of active tasks and number of processed tasks.

6. The system according to claim 5 , wherein said robotic process control unit is further configured to provide data on percentage of completed tasks, and percentage of failed tasks.

7. A method for detecting and fixing robotic process automation failures, said method comprising:

collecting tasks from at least one client computerized device;

replacing a human representative by processing said tasks via robotic process automation;

collecting tasks that failed to complete per task type;

recording successful execution steps per each of the failed tasks;

evaluating the recorded successful execution steps with respect to the failed task types;

providing selected execution steps that best fix the failed tasks, thereby fixing the robotic process automation failures; and

storing data on successfully completed tasks by robotic process automation,

wherein the failure evaluation processor is further configured to evaluate the recorded successful execution steps with respect to the failed task types in order to provide selected execution steps that best fix the tasks that the robotic process automation unit failed to accomplish, wherein the selected execution steps are provided according to an assigned commonality score to at least one pair of succeeding steps which are above a predefined threshold, and

fixing the robotic process automation failures according to the selected execution steps.

8. The method according to claim 7 , further comprisinf comparing successful execution steps of the same task types.

9. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising calculating percentage of commonalities between the execution steps per each type of task.

10. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising providing data on number of active tasks and number of processed tasks.

11. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the selected execution steps are provided according to an assigned commonality score to at least one pair of succeeding steps which are above a predefined threshold, thereby fixing the robotic process automation failures; wherein the data on successfully completed tasks comprises robotic process automation workflows per task type.

Assignments (2)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 26, 2026
From: NICE LTD; NICE SYSTEMS INC.; NICE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES INC.; INCONTACT, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 074986/0208 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 15, 2020
From: GEFFEN, DAVID; EPSTEIN, LIOR; TESLER, GAL
To: NICE LTD
Reel/Frame 054085/0050 →