COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR INDENTIFYING AND AUTOMATING REPETITIVE USER INPUTS

• US 20090327888A1
• Filed: 05/30/2006
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IPIFINI, Inc.
• Original Assignee: IPIFINI, Inc.
• Inventors: Marks, Andrew S., Woolf, Tod M.
• Application Number:
  US11/915,776
• Publication Number:
  US 20090327888A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/704
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

The invention relates to machine-readable code that tracks user input and associated computer output during use of a computer programmed with the code, identifies repetitive patterns and automates the user input portion of those identified repetitive patterns when they occur again.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium containing instructions for controlling a computer process to enable:

a) the recordation of user input and associated computer output;

b) the analysis of said input and output to identify a repetitive pattern; and

c) the compilation and storage of said identified repetitive pattern for automated replay of the user input portion of said pattern at a later time.

2. The computer-readable medium according to claim 1, wherein said instructions for controlling a computer process further enable the display of a user interface through which a user controls one or more of said recording, analysis, compilation, storage or replay.

3. A system for identifying a repetitive pattern of user input and associated computer output and automating the user input portion of said pattern, said system comprising:

a) a computer operative to receive user input from an input device;

b) said input device in communication with said computer; and

c) software stored on tangible, computer-readable medium in communication with said computer, wherein the software comprises machine readable code that when executed by a processor records said user input and associated computer output;

analyzes said user input and computer output to identify a repetitive pattern;

compiles and stores said repetitive pattern for replay of the user input portion at a later time.

4. The system according to claim 3, further comprising a display in communication with said computer, wherein said machine readable code provides a user interface outputted to said display through which a user controls one or more of said recording, analysis, compilation, storage or replay.

5. A method for identifying a repetitive pattern of user input and associated computer output and automating the user input portion of said pattern, said method comprising the steps of:

a) recording user input from an input device in communication with a computer and associated computer output;

b) analyzing said input and output to identify a repetitive pattern;

c) compiling and storing said repetitive pattern in a storage device or memory in communication with said computer; and

d) replaying the user input portion of said repetitive pattern.

6. The method of claim 5, comprising the additional step of:

e) providing a user with a user interface through which the user controls one or more of said recording, analysis, compilation, storage or replay.