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System for directly accessing fields on electronic forms

  • US 6,084,585 A
  • Filed: 07/29/1998
  • Issued: 07/04/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer-driven method of providing a user interface to gather data to complete a form, the method comprising:

  • displaying on a video display a row entry template including at least one menu field and a data field corresponding to each menu field, where contents of each menu field comprise one user-selected menu entry from a predefined group of such menu entries and each menu entry comprises a representation that a different class of information resides in the corresponding data field;

    displaying a form expand selector and a submit selector on the video display;

    receiving a user entry to the menu field comprising user selection of one of the predefined menu entries;

    receiving a user entry to the data field comprising data entered into the data field;

    detecting user activation of the form expand selector, and displaying an additional row entry template on the video display for each user activation of the expand selector; and

    receiving user entry to the submit selector, and in response, transmitting the user entries in a machine-readable format to a predefined destination.

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