Simplified Persona Selector and Indication System

• US 20090006940A1
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sxipper Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sxipper Incorporated
• Inventors: Hardt, Dick C.
• Application Number:
  US12/163,240
• Publication Number:
  US 20090006940A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging

Abstract

A system and method of enhanced user interaction with an identity agent makes use of in-form icons and actions to invoke the identity agent persona selection mechanisms.

Claims

1. An identity agent, having access to identity information stored as data elements defined by an identity schema, for providing visual cues indicative of a status, the agent comprising:

a form recognition engine for parsing received content to detect a form;

a form mapping retrieval engine for obtaining a mapping associated with the detected form;

a status analyzer for determining the status in accordance with the obtained mapping and the identity information; and

a display engine for displaying a visual cue indicative of the determined status.

2. The identity agent of claim 1 wherein the recognition engine includes a hypertext parsing engine for parsing received hypertext markup language content to detect tags indicative of a form.

3. The identity agent of claim 1 wherein the form mapping retrieval engine includes a communications interface for requesting a form mapping from a remote database.

4. The identity agent of claim 3 wherein the communications interface requests form mappings from the remote database through a web browser.

5. The identity agent of claim 1 wherein the form mapping retrieval engine includes a local mapping data interface for retrieving form mappings from a local database of form mappings.

6. The identity agent of claim 1 wherein the form mapping retrieval engine includes a mapping generator for generating a mapping based on a best-guess analysis of the detected form.

7. The identity agent of claim 1 wherein the status analyzer determines the status independently for each field in the form.

8. The identity agent of claim 1 wherein the determined status is selected from a list including:

unmapped form, mapping complete with data available, and mapping complete with data unavailable.

9. The identity agent of claim 8 wherein the list further includes:

mapping incomplete with data available, mapping incomplete with data unavailable, mapping incomplete with multiple data option available and mapping complete with multiple data options available.

10. The identity agent of claim 1 wherein the status analyzer includes a comparator for comparing the accessible data elements to elements of a schema referenced in the retrieved mapping, and a status determinator for determining the status in accordance with the output of the comparator.

11. The identity agent of claim 1 wherein the visual cue is selected from a list including an icon representing the existence of a mapping for which there is a corresponding data element and an icon representing the existence of a mapping for which there is no corresponding data element.

12. A method for indicating the status of a form mapping that associates a form field with an element in an identity schema, the method comprising:

receiving a form having a form field;

determining a status in accordance with the availability of a mapping associated with the received form, and the availability of at least one data element corresponding to the element in the identity schema mapped to the form field; and

modifying a rendering of the form to providing a visual cue indicative of one of at least three statuses.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the step of determining includes requesting a form mapping from a mapping repository to determine the availability of the mapping.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein the determined status is selected from a list including:

unmapped, mapping available with corresponding data elements available, and mapping available with corresponding data elements available.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the list further includes:

mapping available with multiple corresponding data elements available, mapping incomplete with corresponding data elements available and mapping incomplete with corresponding data elements unavailable.

16. The method of claim 12 wherein the step of modifying includes inserting an icon into the form field to indicate at least one of the at least three statuses.

17. The method of claim 12 wherein the step of modifying includes altering a background color in the form field to indicate at least one of the at least three statuses.

18. The method of claim 12 wherein the step of determining includes determining that the form field has been filled with a data element corresponding to the element in the identity schema mapped to the form field, and setting the status as mapping available and field filled with identity data.