Utilizing information associated with an action command to select an appropriate form

• US 9,928,229 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2016
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• 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.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cortes, Howard
• Application Number:
  US15/080,096
• Publication Number:
  US 20170052940A1
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 form filling system, a message;

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

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

selecting multiple candidate forms based on the multiple candidate forms being preconfigured to allow completion of the action command;

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

selecting a form from among the multiple candidate forms, by the form filling system, 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; and

automatically pre-filling, by the form filling system, the input fields in the form with information associated with the matching elements in the message whose similarity exceeds a predetermined threshold without user interaction to minimize copy errors and reduce task execution time associated with filling in the form.

2. The method of claim 1, 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.

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

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the programming language is hyper text markup language (HTML).

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the applying, by the form filling 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.

6. 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.