Abstract: A method for shopping cart validation automation, comprising analyzing a webpage to determine if it contains a shopping cart structure and if the user has expressed desire to initiate a checkout procedure, extracting shopping cart and other price elements from pages of a checkout tunnel, accumulating such information for the shopping transaction, validating the shopping transaction using the accumulated information, and allowing the user to confirm or cancel the transaction upon validation. Alternatively, the method may message the use that the transaction is not reconcilable where the shopping cart could not be validated. Also, the system can advantageously build a history database storing transactional details, including screen shots of pages of the checkout tunnel.

Abstract: An analysis engine executes under client control to review web pages in real-time and control interaction with the web pages of a website to assist the user of the client in providing selections, providing information and otherwise interacting with the website. In analyzing web pages, the engine uses rule-based logic and considers web pages from an anthropomimetic view, i.e., considers the content, forms and interaction elements as would be perceived and dealt with by a human user, as opposed to by merely considering the web pages in their native form, such as HTML formatted files.

Abstract: A method for online purchase automation, comprising identifying when the user has selected to navigate to or receive a web page related to a purchasing action, identifying when content of the web page is received; analyzing the web page concurrent with the purchase action, without requiring detailed structural information about the web page in advance, and determining whether the web page is related to a purchasing action, by parsing the web page or related data elements. If the web page is related to a purchasing action, the next steps are determining the user interface elements of the web page or related data elements, retrieving site-independent customer data for the purchase based on the analyzing of the user interface elements, simulating user input using the site-independent customer data to populate at least portions of the web page, and displaying to the user the populated purchasing page for user action.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for web page task automation. In one embodiment, the method comprises of the following steps: i) decomposing the high level task into a sequence of anthropomimetic subroutines, ii) decomposing each routine into a series of anthropomimetic actions or steps, for example stored as a unit shares of work, iii) generating computer code to interact with the content of the webpage, for each unit share of work, iv) executing the generated computer code by a web interface module, and transmitting the results of the execution of computer code, steps iii) and iv) being repeated until all steps of a subroutine have been executed, until the sequence of subroutines for a logical task have been achieved.