Smart form completion of form values

• US 20070074101A1
• Filed: 09/23/2005
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Uthe, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 9,158,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/236
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to form value processing and provide a method, system and computer program product for smart completion of form values in a form. In a first embodiment of the invention, a data processing system for completing form data can include smart complete logic configured for coupling to a content server in a content distribution platform. The smart complete logic can include program code enabled to dispose a smart complete control element and a save control element in a form where the smart complete control element can include one or more selectable form value sets.

Claims

1. A data processing system for completing form data comprising smart complete logic configured for coupling to a content server in a content distribution platform, said smart complete logic comprising program code enabled to dispose a smart complete control element and a save control element in a form, said smart complete control element comprising a plurality of selectable form value sets.

2. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein said smart complete control element further comprises a configuration to invoke logic enabled to retrieve a selected one of said form value sets and to apply field values in said selected one of said form value sets to corresponding fields in said form.

3. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein said smart complete control element further comprises a configuration to invoke logic enabled to retrieve for use in a form instance for a first user, a selected one of said form value sets produced by a second user and to apply field values in said selected one of said form value sets to corresponding fields in said form.

4. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein said save control element comprises a configuration to invoke logic enabled to save a set of values for fields in said form to a form value set.

5. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein said content server is a Web server and wherein said form is disposed in a Web page.

6. A computer implemented method for completing form fields defined in a form, the method comprising:

presenting a list of form value sets for the form;

selecting a form value set from amongst said form value sets in said list; and

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applying form field values in said selected form value set to corresponding fields in the form.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

providing at least one value for a field in the form; and

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saving each value for each field in the form in a new form value set.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising sharing said new form value set with another user.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising submitting the form over a data communications network.

10. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer usable program code for completing form fields defined in a form, said computer program product including:

computer usable program code for presenting a list of form value sets for the form;

computer usable program code for selecting a form value set from amongst said form value sets in said list; and

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computer usable program code for applying form field values in said selected form value set to corresponding fields in the form.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising:

computer usable program code for providing at least one value for a field in the form; and

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computer usable program code for saving each value for each field in the form in a new form value set.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising computer usable program code for sharing said new form value set with another user.

13. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising computer usable program code for submitting the form over a data communications network.