SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING, CLASSIFYING, ORGANIZING AND POPULATING INFORMATION ON ELECTRONIC FORMS

• US 20140122987A1
• Filed: 10/23/2013
• Published: 05/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: UBIQ Security Incorporated
• Original Assignee: FHOOSH, Inc.
• Inventors: Eigner, Linda, Eigner, William, Tobias, Eric, Kahle, Charles, Iasi, Anthony F.
• Granted Patent: US 10,146,850 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/337 Profile generation, learning or modification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/355 Class or cluster creation or modification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/60 Protecting data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0204 Market segmentation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management

Abstract

Systems and methods for collecting, classifying, transmitting and updating personal information for completion and submission or supplementation of electronic forms or databases on any type of mobile or other computing device are provided. Information relating to a user is obtained from one or more sources through electronic means, and the information is then organized and securely stored in a database using field mapping and other techniques to classify the information into specific categories. The information that is obtained and organized may include contact information, financial information, health information and historical information. The organized information may then be accessed by the user to automatically and instantaneously populate or supplement an electronic document, form or web-based application without requiring the user to manually enter the information. The system automatically detects and stores updates to information and builds a database of forms and electronic documents for future use.

Claims

1. A system for collecting, classifying and populating information onto electronic forms or databases, comprising:

a communications interface which collects information of a user from at least one information source;

a classification unit which classifies the information to identify fields applicable to the information and values for the fields;

a profile creation unit which creates a user profile with the classified information; and

an information populating unit which populates at least one form field of an electronic form or database by matching the at least one form field with the classified information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the information source is selected from at least one of:

manual completion of a user template form and capturing an image of a physical or electronic document.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a field comparison unit which assigns a field name and a field identification number to each field and compares field names and field values to determine similar fields.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the field comparison unit determines similar fields by identifying similar values entered in different field names.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a user activity collection unit which collects user activity relating to the use of electronic forms or databases, the types of fields entered in the user profile and the values of the fields.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic form or database is at least one of an academic form, a financial form, a legal form, a health care form, a personal information form or a business form.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the user profile is linked with additional user profiles to create a shared group profile which includes similar fields and field values.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein a value of a field of the user profile is automatically updated when a user manually enters a value into a form field on the electronic form that corresponds to a field in the user profile.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the user profile is updated to add a new field when a user enters a value into a form field on the electronic form that does not correspond to a field in the user profile.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the user populates or selects content for the at least one form field by touching the form field on a touchscreen of an electronic device.

11. A method of collecting, classifying and populating information onto electronic forms or databases, comprising the steps of:

collecting information of a user from at least one information source;

classifying the information to identify fields applicable to the information and values for the fields;

creating a user profile with the classified information; and

populating at least one form field of an electronic form or database by matching the at least one form field with the classified personal data.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising assigning a field name and a field identification number to each field and comparing field names and field values to determine similar fields.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising determining similar fields by identifying similar values entered in different field names.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising collecting user activity relating to the use of electronic forms or databases, the types of fields entered in the user profile and the values of the fields.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the electronic form or database is at least one of an academic form, a financial form, a legal form, a health care form, a personal information form or a business form.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising linking the user profile with additional user profiles to create a shared group profile which includes similar fields and field values.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising automatically updating a value of a field of the user profile when a user manually enters a value into a form field on the electronic form that corresponds to a field in the user profile.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising updating the user profile to add a new field when a user enters a value into a form field on the electronic form that does not correspond to a field in the user profile.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the user populates the at least one form field by touching the form field on a touchscreen of an electronic device.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the user populates the at least one form field by speaking the name of the form field to an audio input device of an electronic device.