Smart form completion of form values

• US 9,158,749 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2005
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Uthe, Robert T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Queler, Adam M
• Application Number:
  US11/233,885
• Publication Number:
  US 20070074101A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,672 Days
• Field of Search: 715221-226, 715/212, 715/246, 715/271, 707/1, 707/104.1, 707/100, 707/102
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to form value processing and provide a method, system and computer program product for smart completion of form values in a form. In a first embodiment of the invention, a data processing system for completing form data can include smart complete logic configured for coupling to a content server in a content distribution platform. The smart complete logic can include program code enabled to dispose a smart complete control element and a save control element in a form where the smart complete control element can include one or more selectable form value sets.

Claims

1. A data processing system for completing form data comprising

a processor configured to

present a form to a user upon receiving a request by the user to present the form, the form comprising one or more fields and at least one of the one or more fields configured to accept user input;

determine whether there are existing form value sets defined by any user from a group of users including the requesting user and other users, available for the form;

in response to a determination that there are existing form value sets available for the form, present a list of the available form value sets for the form to the user;

receive a selection by the user of a form value set from amongst said available form value sets in said list;

apply form field values in said selected form value set to corresponding fields in the form;

in response to a determination that there is not any existing form value set available for the form, prompt the user to provide a value for each field in the form;

determine whether the user requested each value for each field in the form be saved in a new form value set upon the user providing the value for each field in the form; and

,

save the new form value set to be shared with other users comprising persisting a name for the new form value set, a name of the user, a field name for each field in the form, and also a corresponding value for each field upon determining that the user requested each value for each field in the form be saved in the new form value set.

2. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein said data processing system is a Web server and wherein said form is disposed in a Web page.

3. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein saving the new form value set further comprises persisting a privacy flag indicating whether the new form value set is private to the user.

4. A computer implemented method for completing form fields defined in a form, the method comprising:

presenting, by a processor of a computer, a form to a user upon receiving a request by the user to present the form, the form comprising one or more fields and at least one of the one or more fields configured to accept user input;

determining, by the processor of the computer, whether there are existing form value sets defined by any user from a group of users including the requesting user and other users, available for the form;

in response to a determination that there are existing form value sets available for the form, presenting, by the processor of the computer, a list of the available form value sets for the form to the user;

receiving, by the processor of the computer, a selection by the user of a form value set from amongst said available form value sets in said list;

applying, by the processor of the computer, form field values in said selected form value set to corresponding fields in the form;

in response to a determination that there is not any existing form value set available for the form, prompting, by the processor of the computer, the user to provide a value for each field in the form;

determining whether the user requested each value for each field in the form be saved in a new form value set upon the user providing the value for each field in the form; and

,

saving, by the processor of the computer, the new form value set to be shared with other users comprising persisting a name for the new form value set, a name of the user, a field name for each field in the form, and also a corresponding value for each field upon determining that the user requested each value for each field in the form be saved in the new form value set.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising submitting the form over a data communications network.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein saving, by the processor of the computer, the new form value set further comprises persisting a privacy flag indicating whether the new form value set is private to the user.

7. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer usable program code, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform the followings steps:

presenting a form to a user upon receiving a request by the user to present the form, the form comprising one or more fields and at least one of the one or more fields configured to accept user input;

determining whether there are existing form value sets defined by any user from a group of users including the requesting user and other users, available for the form;

in response to a determination that there are existing form value sets available for the form, presenting a list of the available form value sets for the form to the user;

receiving, by the processor of the computer, a selection by the user of a form value set from amongst said available form value sets in said list;

applying form field values in said selected form value set to corresponding fields in the form;

in response to a determination that there is not any existing form value set available for the form, prompting the user to provide a value for each field in the form;

determining whether the user requested each value for each field in the form be saved in a new form value set upon the user providing the value for each field in the form; and

,

saving the new form value set to be shared with other users comprising persisting a name for the new form value set, a name of the user, a field name for each field in the form, and also a corresponding value for each field upon determining that the user requested each value for each field in the form be saved in the new form value set.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, further comprising submitting the form over a data communications network.

9. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein saving the new form value set further comprises persisting a privacy flag indicating whether the new form value set is private to the user.