REORGANIZING AND PRESENTING DATA FIELDS WITH ERRONEOUS INPUTS

• US 20160110334A1
• Filed: 10/14/2015
• Published: 04/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Company Limited (Ant Group Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Yu, Junze
• Granted Patent: US 10,417,325 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0706 the processing taking place on a specific hardware platform or in a specific software environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0769 Readable error formats, e.g. cross-platform generic formats, human understandable formats
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines

Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for re-entering erroneously entered data fields in a web form. During operation, the system identifies one or more data fields with erroneous inputs in a first web form. Upon submission of the first web form, the system restructures the identified data fields based on association information of a respective identified data field and displays the restructured data fields in a resubmission window distinct from the first web form.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for re-entering erroneously entered data fields in a web form, comprising:

identifying, by a computing device, one or more data fields with erroneous inputs in a first web form;

restructuring the identified data fields based on association information of a respective identified data field; and

displaying the restructured data fields in a resubmission window distinct from the first web form.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the one or more data fields comprises determining whether a data field is associated with an error message.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising displaying the error message with the associated data field in the resubmission window.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying an associated data field for a first data field of the one or more data fields;

obtaining a current value for the associated data field;

displaying a name of the associated data field and the current value with the first data field in the resubmission window.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising avoiding repetition of the associated data field and the current value for a second data field of the one or more data fields in the resubmission window, wherein the associated data field is associated with the second data field.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying categorization information for a first data field of the one or more data fields; and

displaying the first data field in the resubmission window based on the categorization information.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising controlling the resubmission window to constantly stay at a predetermined position on a screen displaying the resubmission window.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the resubmission window is one of:

a floating div;

a JavaScript popup window; and

a second form in a separate tab or window in a browser.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising, upon submission of the first form, precluding a user of the first form from going back to the first form for a data input.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising ordering the identified data fields in the resubmission window based on an order of the identified data fields in the first form.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method for receiving password input from a user, the method comprising:

identifying one or more data fields with erroneous inputs in a first web form;

restructuring the identified data fields based on association information of a respective identified data field; and

displaying the restructured data fields in a resubmission window distinct from the first web form.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein identifying the one or more data fields comprises determining whether a data field is associated with an error message.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the method further comprises displaying the error message with the associated data field in the resubmission window.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises:

identifying an associated data field for a first data field of the one or more data fields;

obtaining a current value for the associated data field;

displaying a name of the associated data field and the current value with the first data field in the resubmission window.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the method further comprises avoiding repetition of the associated data field and the current value for a second data field of the one or more data fields in the resubmission window, wherein the associated data field is associated with the second data field.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises:

identifying categorization information for a first data field of the one or more data fields; and

displaying the first data field in the resubmission window based on the categorization information.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises controlling the resubmission window to constantly stay at a predetermined position on a screen displaying the resubmission window.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the resubmission window is one of:

a floating div;

a JavaScript popup window; and

a second form in a separate tab or window in a browser.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises, upon submission of the first form, precluding a user of the first form from going back to the first form for a data input upon submission.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises ordering the identified data fields in the resubmission window based on an order of the identified data fields in the first form.

21. A computing system for facilitating dynamic load-based merging, the computing system comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform a method, the method comprising;

identifying one or more data fields with erroneous inputs in a first web form;

restructuring the identified data fields based on association information of a respective identified data field; and

displaying the restructured data fields in a resubmission window distinct from the first web form.