×

Systems and methods for discovering automatable tasks

  • US 10,613,838 B2
  • Filed: 10/26/2017
  • Issued: 04/07/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A system, comprising:

  • a first computing device comprising at least one hardware processor and at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, cause the at least one hardware processor to perform;

    receiving an indication of an action being performed by a user on the first computing device;

    gathering contextual information associated with the action; and

    transmitting information indicative of the action and the contextual information as an event in an event log including a plurality of events;

    a second computing device in communication with the first computing device and comprising at least one hardware processor and at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, cause the at least one hardware processor to perform;

    receiving the event log comprising the plurality of events;

    clustering the plurality of events to generate a plurality of clustered events;

    identifying a plurality of sub-tasks in the plurality of clustered events that each comprise a sequence of one or more clustered events at least partially repeated in the plurality of clustered events;

    identifying a task in the plurality of clustered events being performed by the user that comprises at least one sub-task from the plurality of sub-tasks; and

    generating a score for the task indicative of a difficulty of automating the task, wherein the score is generated using at least one value selected from the group consisting of;

    information identifying applications used to perform the task, a number of applications used to perform the task, a number of user interface elements used in the task, an amount of natural language input provided to the applications during the task, a number of times the sequence of the one or more clustered events repeats in the at least one sub-task, a number of keystrokes performed in the task, a number of clicks performed in the task, a ratio between keystrokes and clicks performed in the task, a percentage of time spent performing typing actions in the task, a percentage of time spent performing clicking actions in the task, and a frequency of copy and paste actions performed in the task.

View all claims
  • 5 Assignments
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×