UTILIZING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACTION COMMAND TO SELECT AN APPROPRIATE FORM

• US 20170052940A1
• Filed: 03/24/2016
• Published: 02/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: ALLEN, CORVILLE O., FREED, ANDREW R.
• Granted Patent: US 9,928,229 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis

Abstract

A technique for pre-filling a computing device form with information associated with an action command found in a message includes receiving a message. Content of the message is analyzed utilizing natural language processing (NLP) to locate an action command within the message. NLP is applied to text in the message that is associated with the action command to determine a context of the action command. A similarity algorithm is applied to the text and one or more input fields of the form to identify one or more matching elements between the text and the input fields of the form. Finally, the input fields of the form are automatically pre-filled with information associated with the matching elements in the message whose similarity exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Claims

1. A method of pre-filling a computing device form with information associated with an action command found in a message, comprising:

receiving, by a data processing system, a message;

analyzing, by the data processing system, content of the message utilizing natural language processing (NLP) to locate an action command within the message;

applying, by the data processing system, NLP to text associated with the action command to determine a context of the action command;

applying, by the data processing system, a similarity algorithm to the text associated with the action command and one or more input fields of a form to identify one or more matching elements between the text and the input fields of the form; and

automatically pre-filling, by the data processing system, the input fields in the form with information associated with the matching elements in the message whose similarity exceeds a predetermined threshold.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising

selecting the form, from among multiple candidate forms, based on which of the multiple candidate forms has a greatest number of the matching elements between the text and the input fields of the form.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the selecting the form further comprises:

selecting the form, from among multiple candidate forms, based on which of the multiple candidate forms also has a greatest number of types of the information matching types utilized in the input fields of the form.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the form is constructed in a programming language.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the programming language is one of JavaScript and hyper text markup language (HTML).

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the applying, by the data processing system, a similarity algorithm further comprises:

parsing the programming language to identify the input fields of the form;

mapping the matching elements to the input fields of the form; and

pre-filling the input fields of the form with the information associated with the matching elements in the message.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the message is one of a text message, an email message, a message included in a word processing document, and a message generated by a web page.