System and method for creating and sharing bots

• US 10,417,249 B1
• Filed: 01/13/2017
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GF-17, Inc.
• Original Assignee: GF-17, Inc.
• Inventors: Sadler, Cameron, Jenkins, Cynthia
• Primary Examiner(s): Robinson, Greta L
• Application Number:
  US15/406,574
• Time in Patent Office: 977 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/252 between a Database Management System and a front-end application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 3/006 based on simulated virtual individual or collective life forms, e.g. social simulations or particle swarm optimisation [PSO]

Abstract

Disclosed is a system for automating or otherwise streamlining data manipulation so as to allow capture unstructured data and responsive to inputs, provide structured data, improving the efficiency of system operation and managing processor and network load. Moreover, the system adaptably arranges structured data in a user interface ameliorating visual interference among aspects of structured data being displayed.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more databases hosted on one or more servers comprising a non-transitory machine-readable memory, the one or more databases configured to store user data associated with the user of the system, and one or more bots;

a computer comprising a data structuring sub-unit configured to execute one or more graphical user interfaces for interfacing with the user by synthesizing structured data from unstructured data, wherein the data structuring sub-unit comprises;

an unstructured data collection module configured to gather the unstructured data;

a mask data ingesting engine configured to access a mask repository and ingest mask data comprising a filter to create an assigned user path;

a path execution engine configured to execute a user path whereby the assigned user path is assembled for presentation to the user;

a deliverable synthesis module configured to display the structured data comprising one or more element of the assigned user path via a graphical user interface and configured to position the one or more element to be displayed with a further element of the assigned user path.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the gathering unstructured data comprises collecting an interest from the user corresponding to at least one of the unstructured data, a user selection, and a random assignment.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mask data comprising the filter is configured to select a first element of unstructured data and deselect a second element of unstructured data to create the assigned user path.

4. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a user path mask engine, wherein the user path mask engine establishes the user path by masking path elements drawn from a user path repository according to at least one of user data and business data within a user profile, a third-party data source, and from a sensor overseer, wherein the user path mask engine communicates the path elements to the mask data ingesting engine comprising a mask repository submodule.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the mask data ingesting engine is further configured to:

access the mask repository submodule to retrieve the path elements drawn from the user path repository;

evolve the user profile to update the user path by masking the path elements drawn from the user path repository; and

further evolve the masking the path elements applied in response to at least one of unstructured and the structured data provide by the sensor overseer.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the path execution engine is configured to display bots related to at least one of a specific industry, work opportunities in the specific industry, and educational opportunities in the specific industry.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the path execution engine is configured to provide, via a notification generator, a notification revealing the one or more element of the user path via the graphical user interface.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the path execution engine is configured to:

create data linkages associating the unstructured data with the user path; and

evolve a user profile in response to changes in the data linkages.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the path execution engine is further configured to actively recreate the graphical user interface at direction of an I/O module in conjunction with an evolution controller, wherein data is arranged in a non-interfering visual pattern.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the one or more element comprises the one or more bots.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein the creating the assigned user path comprises analyzing user data and business data to determine an interest of the user, and further comprises identifying one or more bots corresponding to the interest of the user.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein the deliverable synthesis module comprises:

a screen element selector configured to select a first subset of the structured data for display and a second subset of the structured data for non-display, wherein the selecting is in response to at least one of a network congestion and a graphical user interface size limitation; and

a visual interference detector configured to detect at least one of an actual and potential interference among the one or more element arranged on the graphical user interface and configured to direct the screen element selector to at least one of select, deselect, and move elements to ameliorate interference.

13. A method of synthesizing structured deliverable data from unstructured data by a computer data structuring sub-unit configured to execute one or more graphical user interfaces for interfacing with a user by the method of synthesizing structured deliverable data from the unstructured data, wherein the method of synthesizing structured deliverable data from the unstructured data comprises:

gathering, by an unstructured data collection module, the unstructured data;

accessing, by a mask data ingesting engine, a mask repository and ingesting mask data comprising a filter to create an assigned user path;

executing, by a path execution engine, a user path whereby the assigned user path is assembled for presentation to the user;

displaying and positioning, by a deliverable synthesis module, an element of the assigned user path via a graphical user interface with a further element of the assigned user path.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the step of the gathering unstructured data comprises collecting, by the unstructured data collection module, an interest from the user corresponding to at least one of the unstructured data, a user selection, and a random assignment.

15. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

establishing, by a user path mask engine, the user path by masking path elements drawn from a user path repository according to at least one of user data and business data within a user profile, a third-party data source, and from a sensor overseer; and

communicating, by the user path mask engine, the path elements to the mask data ingesting engine comprising a mask repository submodule.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising:

accessing, by the mask data ingesting engine, the mask repository submodule to retrieve the path elements drawn from the user path repository;

evolving, by the mask data ingesting engine, the user profile to update the user path by masking the path elements drawn from the user path repository; and

further evolving, by the mask data ingesting engine, the masking in response to at least one of unstructured and structured data provided by the sensor overseer.

17. The method according to claim 13, wherein the executing the user path comprises displaying bots related to at least one of a specific industry, work opportunities in the specific industry, and educational opportunities in the specific industry.

18. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

creating, by the path execution engine, data linkages associating the unstructured data with the user path; and

evolving, by the path execution engine, a user profile in response to changes in the data linkages.

19. The method according to claim 13, wherein displaying and positioning, by the deliverable synthesis module, the element of the assigned user path via the graphical user interface with the further element of the assigned user path comprises:

selecting, by a screen element selector, a first subset of structured data for display and a second subset of structured data to be non-displayed, in response to at least one of a network congestion and a graphical user interface size limitation; and

detecting, by a visual interference detector, at least one of an actual and potential interference among one or more element arranged on the graphical user interface and configured to direct the screen element selector to at least one of select, deselect, and move elements to ameliorate interference.

20. A processor comprising a plurality of modules interconnected by a bus to a bus controller which directs communication among the plurality of modules, the plurality of modules comprising:

a directive transceiver configured to transmit and receive instructions to a user via a graphical user interface presented on a user device,

wherein the directive transceiver interoperates with an I/O module to structure elements on the graphical user interface of the user device;

a smart data extraction engine configured to access at least one of a sensor data provided by a sensor overseer and a public-facing data from a third-party resource, and further configured to retrieve the data in an unstructured form and provide it to the bus;

an alignment translator configured to interoperate with the I/O module to at least one of translate, scale, and selectively omit elements for display on the graphical user interface, the elements corresponding to structured data derived from unstructured data so that the elements for display on the graphical user interface exist in a non-interfering pattern;

a user path mask engine configured to ingest the unstructured data provided by the smart data extraction engine and mask user path elements retrieved from a user path repository to select an assigned user path for the user;

a profile randomizer configured to assemble a user profile comprising at least one of structured data regarding the user stored in a platform user database, randomly selection of random unstructured data, and a combination thereof;

a profile sentinel configured to interoperate with the I/O module to monitor the unstructured data and the structured data and update the user profile in response to at least one of the unstructured data and the structured data;

an evolution controller configured to direct the profile sentinel to cause automatic updates to the user profile in response to a change to at least one of the structured data and the unstructured data;

a bot creation engine configured to interoperate with the I/O module whereby the user may create at least a script configured to ingest the unstructured data and output the structured data;

a bot utilization engine configured to interoperate with the I/O module to display to the user a first bot corresponding to the user profile and not display to the user a second bot not corresponding to the user profile;

a notification generator configured to direct the user to interact with a context environment comprising a network device and configured to direct the evolution controller to automatically revise the user profile whereby the second bot is unhidden and displayed; and

the sensor overseer configured to interface with a sensor and relay the sensor data to the evolution controller, whereby the user profile is revised.