Fitting Data Into Field On Form Patents (Class 715/225)
  • Patent number: 12242812
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (‘machine representation’); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: UNLIKELY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LIMITED
    Inventors: William Tunstall-Pedoe, Finlay Curran, Harry Roscoe, Robert Heywood
  • Patent number: 12190069
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (‘machine representation’); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: UNLIKELY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LIMITED
    Inventors: William Tunstall-Pedoe, Finlay Curran, Harry Roscoe, Robert Heywood
  • Patent number: 12153895
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (‘machine representation’); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: UNLIKELY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LIMITED
    Inventors: William Tunstall-Pedoe, Finlay Curran, Harry Roscoe, Robert Heywood
  • Patent number: 12106057
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (‘machine representation’); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: UNLIKELY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LIMITED
    Inventors: William Tunstall-Pedoe, Finlay Curran, Harry Roscoe, Robert Heywood
  • Patent number: 12008327
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (‘machine representation’); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: UNLIKELY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LIMITED
    Inventors: William Tunstall-Pedoe, Finlay Curran, Harry Roscoe, Robert Heywood
  • Patent number: 11641317
    Abstract: An activity stream based interaction model is disclosed. To cause a desired application level action to be performed at a remote system, such as automatically retrieving and displaying a document in a viewer or other portion of a user interface at the remote system, a text-based tag, such as a hash tag, is inserted into an activity stream. The activity stream is sent to the remote system, which is configured to respond to the text-based tag by performing, at least in part automatically, the corresponding application level action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeroen Mattijs van Rotterdam, Gary Frankel
  • Patent number: 11557139
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments of a system, method, and article for receiving a document from a remote device and identifying items in the document. Various operations may be performed based on one or more dependencies of the identified items. For example, additional items may be identified in the document. One or more of the identified items may be parsed. A correspondence between the identified items and a second set of items may be determined. The identified items may be validated based on a set of rules. One or more of the identified items may be transmitted to the remote device in response to the performance of the various operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Tobias Weller
  • Patent number: 11544241
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a pseudo data field in a CRM system to allow end users to generate and manage pseudo data fields for account objects in the CRM system, which may behave like actual data fields of account objects in the CRM system but live outside the CRM account. The present invention uses a data model that includes two objects to allow end users to generate and manage the pseudo data fields. One of the objects is pseudo data field configuration object, which may be used to configure the pseudo data fields that should be made available to end users. The other object is pseudo data field object which may be used to record user responses or values users use to populate the pseudo data field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Veeva Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Arno Sosna, Povilas Petkevicius, Camila Muse
  • Patent number: 11252069
    Abstract: An activity stream based interaction model is disclosed. To cause a desired application level action to be performed at a remote system, such as automatically retrieving and displaying a document in a viewer or other portion of a user interface at the remote system, a text-based tag, such as a hash tag, is inserted into an activity stream. The activity stream is sent to the remote system, which is configured to respond to the text-based tag by performing, at least in part automatically, the corresponding application level action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Open Text Corporation
    Inventors: Jeroen Mattijs van Rotterdam, Gary Frankel
  • Patent number: 10896192
    Abstract: In an example, a database system may be configured to download to a user system an application configured to generate a data table from records stored in a data store, wherein the data table includes: a plurality of rows, wherein each row corresponds to at least one record of the records; and each row including a plurality of cells, each cell corresponding to a different grouping of data fields of its respective one(s) of the records; receive a communication from the application, the communication corresponding to at least one user input to a displayed cell of the data table; determine whether to feedback the at least one user input to the displayed cell of the data table to a corresponding data field of a corresponding record of the data store; and update the corresponding record in the data store based on a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Owen Winne Schoppe, Ian Schoen, Jesse Hausler
  • Patent number: 10803980
    Abstract: A user interacts with a medical imaging system and a medical reporting system to prepare a medical report. The medical reporting system includes report templates for medical reports. The report templates include placeholder fields with unique placeholder designations and metadata. After a user entry in the medical imaging system to select an image dataset, the image dataset and analysis tools are made available to the user. After a user entry in the medical reporting system to select a report template, a report template is made available. Placeholders contained in the selected report template are displayed with corresponding placeholder designations and metadata, automatically sent to the imaging system, and displayed as data requests. According to the data requests displayed, the data corresponding to the data requests is ascertained or determined by the user and assigned to the placeholder designations. A report editor automatically saves the data in the placeholder fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Karlheinz Glaser-Seidnitzer, Andrew John Hewett, Martin Huber, Gerhard Kohl, Michael Rusitska
  • Patent number: 10606904
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing user experience in a document viewing environment are provided. The method includes displaying contextual information for an entity comprising of key/value pairs in the document thereby enhancing the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Inventor: Aravind Musuluri
  • Patent number: 10600504
    Abstract: A sorter of medical findings for assessment by a medical coder is provided. In some embodiments, the sorter receives information about a user (coder), including identification, a role, and historical activity. The sorter determines whether to run in exploration or exploitation modes. Exploration is used to explore the scope of the findings and also identify variables that impact a finding. Exploitation is designed to maximize a goal (such as throughput or profitability). Lastly a finding is selected and provided to the user. The selection is based upon computing internal parameters when in exploration, or based upon optimizing for criteria when in exploitation. The sorter may also determine competency for the user, and cut them off from performing additional coding if they are found incompetent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: APIXIO, INC.
    Inventors: John O. Schneider, Vishnuvyas Sethumadhavan, Robert Derward Rogers
  • Patent number: 10223501
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for tracking, monitoring, and standardizing molecular and diagnostic testing products and services. A claim for payment, corresponding to a testing product or service, may be received, and a de-identification may be performed on the claim to remove personal identifiers from the claim to create a de-identified claim file. From the de-identified claim file, a unified representation of the claim may be created to form a structured payment claim object. The claim object may be matched to a specific testing product and/or a bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Concert Genetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Judsen D. Schneider, Mark P. Harris, Taylor A. Murphy, Joe Marshall Cottrell, III, Jon Staples, Blake S. Blackshear, Ashly M. Badgett, Joy M. Pratt, Gillian W. Hooker, Christopher Hooper, Laura K. Poff, Robert L. Metcalf
  • Patent number: 10216988
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a storage unit, a reception unit, a recognition unit, and a specification unit. The storage unit stores therein accumulated information containing entry information of multiple types of forms accumulated by form type and entry field. The reception unit receives a form. The recognition unit recognizes the entry information contained in the form received by the reception unit. The specification unit compares the accumulated information and the entry information recognized by the recognition unit to specify the type of the form received by the reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshimasa Dobashi, Hiroyuki Mizutani
  • Patent number: 9009586
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for authoring an article entry comprising a plurality of data fields from at least one electronic document and storing the article in a knowledgebase. The apparatus comprises an authoring applet displayed on an electronic display, the applet comprising a plurality of panes, one of each of the panes associated with a respective one of the plurality of article data fields, wherein the selection device is used to highlight a text snippet from the at least one electronic document by moving a cursor to a start of the text snippet, depressing and holding a user operable selection device button while moving the cursor to an end of the text snippet wherein on release of the button the highlighted text snippet is copied to an active pane as a pane content and for subsequent editing and publishing to the knowledgebase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Inventor: Micah Nathanael Peterson
  • Patent number: 8996991
    Abstract: A method of parsing a markup-language document includes detecting, in a markup-language document, a start of a first data node of a first node type and identifying a first data definition associated with the first node type. The first data definition specifies defined contents of the first node type. The method further includes adding a first entry associated with the first data node to a data structure and reading, from the markup-language document, contents of the first data node. The method also includes determining a status of the first data node based on the first data definition and the contents read from the first data node and indicating the status of the first data node on a graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Takuki Kamiya
  • Patent number: 8984404
    Abstract: Provided is a method of guiding an image-based task execution. The method allows a user of a computing device to record an association between an image and at least one task, wherein a task is an action related to content present in the image; and upon subsequent recognition of the image, guides a user to perform the at least one task associated with the image, based on previously recorded association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Suryaprakash Kompalli, Vimal Sharma, Praphul Chandra
  • Patent number: 8954839
    Abstract: A computer based system and method for contract authoring. The method can receive an external contract document in electronic form, wherein the external contract document comprises a plurality of text portions relating to a plurality of contract component types, respectively. The method can accessing a knowledge base describing a plurality of text patterns which identify with the plurality of the contract component types, respectively. Moreover, the method can process the external contract document utilizing the knowledge base to automatically identify the plurality of the contract component types for the plurality of the text portions in the contract document, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Inventors: Sachin Sharma, Shawn Fernandes
  • Patent number: 8954837
    Abstract: Context sensitive delimiter insertion when adding references is disclosed. In some embodiments, a plurality of indications of selections of a cell or cell range while in a formula editing mode in a host cell into which a formula is being entered is successively received, and in response to receiving each indication of selection of the plurality a reference to the selected cell or cell range is successively inserted into the formula, wherein the references inserted into the formula are delimited by a first delimiter type if in a first context and wherein the references inserted into the formula are delimited by a second delimiter type if in a second context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Peter William Rapp
  • Patent number: 8954838
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a system for displaying cells of a table. During operation, the system can receive a sort-and-merge request for sorting the rows of the table using a sort column. Next, the system can sort the rows of the table based at least on cell values in the sort column to obtain a sorted table. The system can then merge a set of consecutive cells in a merge column of the sorted table to obtain a merged cell, wherein the set of consecutive cells are associated with the same cell value. Note that the sort column and the merge column can be the same column, or they can be different columns. Next, the system can display the merged cell and other cells in the sorted-and-merged table. Displaying a cell can involve positioning the cell's value in a visible area of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil P. Balaram, Takashi Toyooka
  • Patent number: 8954474
    Abstract: A method of maintaining data described in a plurality of data models. An ontology is used to describe the data models. The data models are managed using the ontology and using a validation schema to validate object(s) governed by the ontology and derived from data-centric component(s) of content that has a semantically independent structure. Management of the data models is neutral relative to implementation of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Mark A. Dahl, Edward J. Levinskas, Patrick L. Walsh, Russell G. Gianni, James G. Tanner, Roberto Aaron Vergaray
  • Patent number: 8949706
    Abstract: Systems and methods for distributed electronic signature documents. A method for distributed electronic signature documents includes creating a signing template that contains information about how a signable document is to be signed. A signable document is created to be distributed to a signer for signing. The signable document is electronically transmitted to the signer. A message is sent using an activatable control in the signing document to a web signing server to invoke the signing process. A browser window is opened on a signer's computer in order to execute the signing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: DocuSign, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew David McCabe, Thomas H. Gonser
  • Publication number: 20150033107
    Abstract: A method and device for adding a fillable form field into a PDF document static form. The method comprises the following steps: receiving the click of a user on a position in a static form where a form field is required to be added, and judging the size and the shape of the blank space around the clicked position by extending upwards, downwards, leftwards and rightwards from the clicked position; prompting and receiving the selection by the user of the type of the form field which is required to be added; and according to the type of the form field which is selected by the user and the size and the shape of the blank space around the clicked position, adding the form field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: FOXIT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuqian Xiong
  • Patent number: 8896880
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing extensions to an LCDS imaging data stream. An LCDS imaging data stream is modified utilizing existing constructs of the imaging data stream in order to provide extensions to the imaging data stream for full-color rendering capabilities without re-writing or converting the imaging data stream into another format. Modifying an LCDS imaging data stream generally includes modifying one or more palettes associated with the imaging data stream to include a full color standardized approach to specifying colors, configuring one or more ink values associated with the imaging data stream with a full color palette, configuring a convenience specification associated with the imaging data stream to include at least one full-color space, and providing a variable color form capability for the imaging data stream in place of a palette syntax associated with the imaging data stream in order to provide a convenience feature for a user of the imaging data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: George Kenneth Hartupee, Jr., Hayley H. Yau
  • Patent number: 8860994
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving an input print job file including a form definition (formdef), determining whether the formdef is an N-up formdef and generating an output print job file by inserting a forms overlay into the input print job file as a pre-printed form if the formdef is an N-up formdef.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions
    Inventors: David L. Stokes, Susan M. Saad, Michael G. Lotz
  • Patent number: 8850304
    Abstract: A computer apparatus and method are provided for visually mapping fields of various electronic forms to a common object model. The forms may then be dynamically completed via a runtime engine that retrieves mapping data from a relational database and uses the mapping data to automatically populate corresponding fields of the forms without manual input by the user. Specifically, a visual mapping tool displays the objects of the common object model as well as the fields of a form to be mapped. A user drags and drops one or more of the displayed objects into a mapping area, and drags and drops a field to which the one or more objects are to be mapped. The user also identifies a type of association between the selected objects and the field. A mapping entry is then generated in a map file to map the selected objects to the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Kip Medv PI LP
    Inventors: Qin Ye, Darius Lezama, Matthew J. Haddad
  • Patent number: 8843818
    Abstract: A field pair as a combination of a definite field and an indefinite field is decided and a correlation value between the definite field and the indefinite field in each of the field pairs is calculated. Among the field pairs in which the correlation value is not smaller than a threshold value, indefinite fields having corresponding definite fields which belong to the same field group are made to be a new field group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Tateishi, Dai Kusui
  • Patent number: 8839090
    Abstract: A system for automatically completing fields in online forms, such as login forms and new user registration forms, which employs a Master Cookie File containing sets of records associated with the user, his or her accounts or web sites, and registered values associated with form tags (e.g. username, password, address, email, telephone, etc.). When the user encounters another form, the MCF is automatically searched for matching values and form tags, primarily from the same account or web site, or alternatively from other accounts or sites. A flowing pop-up menu is displayed nearby the form fields from which the user can select values to automatically complete the form. Automatic account information updating, value expiration management, mapping of favorite values, and sharing of values are optional, enhanced functions of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Jenson Boss, Yen-Fu Chen, Rick Allen Hamilton, II, Timothy Moffett Waters
  • Patent number: 8825715
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for executing a first operation using a first system, the first operation generating first output data, generating a first fieldset, the first fieldset including one or more fields corresponding to the first output data, populating the one or more fields of the first fieldset with values of the first output data, transmitting the first output data to a second system, executing a second operation using the second system, the second operation generating second output data, the second output data overlapping the first output data, generating a second fieldset, the second fieldset including one or more fields corresponding to the first output data and the second output data, and populating the one or more fields of the second fieldset with values of the second output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Jacoby Thwaites
  • Patent number: 8806322
    Abstract: A system and machine-implemented method for populating an electronic form is provided. A command for pasting a string of unstructured data into one of several fields of a structured address form is detected. The string of unstructured data is geocoded to obtain a geolocation. The geolocation is reverse-geocoded to obtain structured address data. Each of the several fields of the structured address form is populated with a corresponding field from the structured address data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Grim Hegland Iversen
  • Publication number: 20140215301
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating a template for automatic data capture are described. The method comprises determining locations of a plurality of data fields in a first document, wherein the plurality of data fields are identified based, at least in part, on structured data associated with the first document, identifying at least one second document that includes the plurality of data fields in locations similar to those determined for the first document to produce a set of documents, determining locations of a plurality of anchorboxes describing common text elements of the set of documents, and generating the template, wherein the template describes locations of the plurality of anchorboxes and locations of the plurality of data fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: athenahealth, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven James Stone, Frederick Henle, Fuchang Yin
  • Patent number: 8791906
    Abstract: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry and also provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided. If a field into which text is being entered is determined to be a special input field, a disambiguated result can be sought first from a predetermined data source prior to seeking results from other data sources on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Vadim Fux, Michael Elizarov, Sergey V. Kolomiets
  • Patent number: 8755606
    Abstract: Systems (100) and methods (300) for efficient feature data analysis. The methods involve: determining a first number of screen pages needed to verify that each of a plurality of clusters of detected features comprises only detected features which were correctly identified during feature extraction/detection operations as being of the same feature class as a selected feature of an image; determining a second number of screen pages needed to verify that each of a plurality of singular detected features was correctly identified during the feature extraction/detection operations as being of the same feature class as the selected feature of the image; selecting one of a plurality of different validation processes based on values of the first number of screen pages and the second number of screen pages; and performing the selected validation process to verify that each of the detected features does not constitute a false positive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: J. Harlan Yates, Mark Rahmes, Michael McGonagle, Timothy B. Faulkner
  • Patent number: 8749558
    Abstract: The method for displaying according to the present invention is used for displaying the displacement of an object (group) on the display of an electronic device. The method calculates an animation interval according to an amount of animation and an animation time; calculates an animation end time according to the animation interval and the order of animation to be executed; calculates a distribution ratio according to the animation end time and a distribution curve; calculates a displacement according to the distribution ratio and an animation execution distance; calculates an updated coordinate according to the displacement after the object (group) is moved; and replots the displaced object (group) in the display window of the display of the electronic device according to the updated coordinate. By calculating the displacement of each step of animation during the animation process, the present invention can present the process of object (group) movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Esobi Inc.
    Inventors: Hong-Yang Tsai, Ko-Min Hsueh
  • Patent number: 8739047
    Abstract: A method of managing agile software development includes displaying assets associated with an agile software development process. Selection of a first link corresponding to a respective asset of the displayed assets is detected; in response, one or more related assets associated with the respective asset are displayed. Selection of a second link corresponding to a first related asset of the one or more related assets is detected; in response, a user interface for editing attributes of the first related asset is displayed, wherein the user interface and the one or more related assets are displayed in a common window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: VersionOne, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Holler, Ian Culling, Rajiv Delwadia, Pavel Mamut, Mark Crowe, Donald Hanson, Patrick Boudreaux
  • Patent number: 8732570
    Abstract: A system and method for paper-based, automated completion of forms allows a user charged with filling out multiple forms containing some common information to write each unique piece of information one time, and the system generates a set of completed forms with the required information on each form with no change to the use or structure of the current forms. The control module is operable on a processor to determine a mapping between common fields on multiple forms or multiple pages of the same form, copy information written in a field on one form to equivalent fields on other forms, and produce a set of completed forms. The system is computationally simple and independent of language because these operations can be performed without having to understand, translate or convert the writing. Furthermore, there is no loss of security or privacy beyond the use of paper forms because these operations can be performed without access to a centralized database and without connectivity to other systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael J. Gormish, Michael G. E. Griffin, Max E. McFarland
  • Patent number: 8719216
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a result for a post-query may include: (a) Algorithmically treating the query to create a signature. (b) Composing a pseudo-get web identifier including a web address identifying a responding station and the signature. (c) Sending the query via a network to the responding station to request the result. (d) Determining whether the result is stored in a cache unit in the network. (e) If the result is stored in a cache unit, providing the result to the requesting station. (f) If the result is not stored in a cache unit, acquiring the result from the responding station. (g) Storing the result in a receiving cache unit. (h) Sending a resubmitted query via the network to the responding station in a format appropriate to retrieve the stored result from the receiving cache unit. The resubmitted query format includes the signature phrase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: John Francis Bremer, Jr., Alimuddin Mohammad
  • Patent number: 8687022
    Abstract: A method for generating digital content where an intermediary figure included in an inputted image is perceived, a digital object is inserted into a location where the intermediary figure is displayed, and digital content, which is the image into which the digital object is inserted, is displayed. Accordingly, the user can generate digital content easily using a touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ka-won Cheon, Say Jang, Kuk-hyun Han, Taik-heon Rhee, Pil-seung Yang, Seung-hwan Hong, Su-jin Yeon
  • Patent number: 8688549
    Abstract: Data validation techniques are provided. For example, such techniques complement user entries associated with events of interest through context. In one aspect of the invention, a technique for processing one or more user entries associated with one or more events of interest includes the following steps/operations. Context associated with the one or more events of interest is obtained. At least a portion of the obtained context is associated with one or more user entries representing events of interest. At least a portion of the one or more user entries is evaluated, responsive to at least a portion of the context. An indication of the one or more events of interest is provided, responsive to the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Maria Rene Ebling, Edith Helen Stern, Pnina Vortman
  • Publication number: 20140075280
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention comprise systems and methods for facilitating transfers of data between an accessible data store and one that may not be directly accessible. In embodiments, an application interfaces with a web form of a client system to facilitate data transfer with an accessible database at a service provider system. The data transfer occurs even where the application may not have access to modify directly the destination database. By using web form filling, the systems and methods presented herein can dynamically determine mappings between fields in the client forms and fields in the service provider records and thereby service a variety of client records systems. Embodiments of the present invention also include capturing of one or more images triggered by event interactions with the form; and, in embodiments, one or more captured images may be combined with the form as evidence of who completed the form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: SW Development, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Laakmann, Mark Silliman
  • Patent number: 8666941
    Abstract: For interactive television subscribers, a system (10) and method for persistent storage of common information relating to a user (25) required by multiple disparate iTV applications to be shared among said applications to ease the burden of data entry off the user. Subscribers do not have to repeatedly enter the same common user information required by multiple applications. The registration information inputted by a user (25) is logged, temporarily stored in the STB (35), and its contents transmitted to a remote central repository (100) at predetermined intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Soloff, Carlos Gonzalez, Edward P. Jurado
  • Patent number: 8667408
    Abstract: A system for generating customized badges. The system includes a computer, a printer coupled to the computer, a display coupled to the computer, and a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium includes instructions for opening a badge profile, providing a data entry screen based on the profile, receiving data in the data entry screen, and printing customized badges on the printer based on the received data. The badge profile defines a size, type, and location of data to be printed on the customized badges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Contemporary, Inc.
    Inventors: James Peterson, Brian Powell
  • Patent number: 8661330
    Abstract: Embodiments of a computer system, a method and a computer-program product (e.g., software) for use with the computer system are described. These embodiments may be used to assist users while they are filling in forms. In particular, based at least in part on a current location of a user (such as a location of a portable electronic device associated with the user), an association with location and non-location information for an entity may be identified. For example, a predetermined relationship between the user's current location and the location of the entity may be accessed. Alternatively, a relationship between the user's current location and the location of the entity may be determined, for example, based at least in part on proximity. This identified location and/or non-location information for the entity may be used to fill in one or more fields in a form associated with an application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Greene Kilat, Joseph W. Lasee, Jose A. Alvarez, Vladimir Magdalin
  • Patent number: 8635244
    Abstract: A method of providing a news release to a user is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises: providing access to the user, over a network, to data stored in a computer-readable digital storage medium; and structuring the data provided to the user over the network so that the user experiences a news release having a plurality of sections, the sections including a headline, a summary, key points, and a network address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: NewsGems LLC
    Inventors: Eileen C. Shapiro, Steven J. Mintz
  • Publication number: 20130332804
    Abstract: Methods and devices for data entry are disclosed. An example method includes detecting contextual information for a mobile device, automatically selecting a data entry form template from a plurality of data entry form templates based on the contextual information, generating a data entry form instance of the selected data entry form template, entering data received via an input device of the mobile device into the instance of the data entry form, storing the instance of the data entry form including the data, and presenting a representation of the instance of the data entry form in an interface with a representation of at least one additional instance of a data entry form generated based on the data entry form template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Conrad Delbert Seaman, William Alexander Cheung, Christopher Wormald, Gerhard Dietrich Klassen
  • Patent number: 8601361
    Abstract: Automatically populating and/or generating tables using data extracted from files is disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to receiving an indication that at least a portion of a data object is desired to be included in a table, a set of one or more data values associated with the data object is selected for inclusion in the table and automatically included as an entry corresponding to the data object in the table. In various embodiments, the table may comprise an existing table and/or a newly generated table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Glen Berger, Jay Christopher Capela, Yaniv Gur, Roger Rock Rosner, Christopher Douglas Weeldreyer
  • Patent number: 8577846
    Abstract: A system may present a document including a form. Forms content may be received into the form. The received forms content may be periodically and automatically saved to reduce the likelihood that received forms content is lost prior to form submission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Axe, Evan Williams
  • Patent number: 8572496
    Abstract: Method and system of present invention provide a web-based graphical user interface to a remote user for sending electronic messages, where the interface comprises an element for selecting an option for sending individual electronic messages to multiple recipients in visible fields (“to” and “cc”), obtain a set of data, comprising a list of two or more recipients in visible fields, a message subject and/or a message body, where the message subject and/or the message body contain a markup indicating variable field, and generate and transmit individual electronic messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: David Koopman
  • Patent number: RE45371
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for gathering information from different sources to be used to automatically fill in online forms. The information is collected using a persona of an individual. A persona is created by filtering a larger set of raw data for that user so that only certain fields are allowed to be seen and used by others. An individual can have several personas, each assigned to a particular other individual, such as a family member or a friend. The individual allowing one of his personas to be shared is the information provider and the user requesting the information is the information requester. The information is taken from both the provider and requester, and used by a vendor in a form, filled out by the information requester. In one embodiment, the information requester is a “gift giver” and the provider is a “gift receiver.” The gift giver is requesting shipping and other information from the gift receiver, who can grant one of his personas to the particular gift giver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Zanni Assets Limited Liability Company
    Inventor: Geoffrey W. Simons