RECOMMENDING FORM FRAGMENTS

• US 20160314109A1
• Filed: 04/27/2015
• Published: 10/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: SINGH, HARPREET, HEDA, ARVIND
• Granted Patent: US 10,482,169 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging

Abstract

The present invention provides recommendation of top scoring form fragments to a form designer. A plurality of form fragments may be stored in a form repository, each form fragment including user-defined form fragment attributes, and analytics data for the form fragments may be collected over a period of time to calculate a performance score for each of the form fragments. When an author searches for a form fragment, at least one matching form fragment from the form repository may be obtained based on the search query or criteria inputted by the author using natural language processing (NLP). The matching form fragments may be ordered based on the performance score, where higher performing form fragments are listed first. The ordered form fragments may be displayed on a device associated with the author so that the form fragments may be used by the author when authoring forms.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by a computing device having a processor, cause the computer to perform a method for recommending form fragments to a form designer, the method comprising:

storing a plurality of form fragments in a form repository, each form fragment including predefined form fragment attributes;

collecting analytics data for the plurality of form fragments over a period of time to calculate a performance score for each of the plurality of form fragments;

obtaining at least one matching form fragment from the form repository based on a search query or criteria;

ordering the at least one matching form fragment based on the performance score; and

causing to be displayed the ordered at least one matching form fragment.

2. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the form fragment attributes comprises at least one of validation rules, formatting rules, description, metadata, help content, and accessibility content;

and the form fragment attributes are user-defined or implicitly defined form fragment attributes.

3. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the collecting analytics data comprises collecting for each form fragment at least one of a number of times help is accessed for the form fragment, a number of validation errors received for the fragment, or a time spent on a form fragment.

4. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the obtaining at least one matching form fragment comprises searching metadata of the plurality of form fragments for search terms in the search query or criteria.

5. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the obtaining at least one matching form fragment comprises performing a contextual search on the form fragment, wherein the contextual search uses form fragments relationships to perform the search on at least one of name, description, metadata, help.

6. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the obtaining at least one matching form fragment comprises performing natural language processing on the search query or criteria on at least one of the form fragment attributes.

7. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the ordering the at least one matching form fragment comprises:

calculating a standard deviation of values for a number of validation errors of each of the matching form fragments;

assigning a weight to the standard deviation of values for the number of validation errors;

calculating an overall score for each of the matching form fragments using the weight and standard deviation of values for the number of validation errors; and

ordering the matching form fragments by overall score.

8. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the ordering the at least one matching form fragment based on the analytics data comprises:

determining a contextual score for the matching form fragments based on existing form fragments of the form, wherein form fragments originating from the same form have a higher weight than for fragment originating from a different form;

combining the contextual score with an analytics score to determine an overall score; and

ordering the matching form fragments by overall score.

9. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the form repository is a virtual repository storing references to the form fragments of the plurality of forms.

10. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the causing to be displayed the ordered at least one matching form fragment comprises causing to be displayed for each of the one or more form fragments, a form fragment name, a performance score, and a preview of an existing form on which each of the one or more form fragments may be found.

11. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises tagging the one or more form fragments with an identifier;

and the obtaining at least one matching form fragment comprises searching for the tagged identifier.

12. A method for recommending form fragments to a form designer, the method comprising:

storing a plurality of forms in a form repository, each of the plurality of forms comprising one or more form fragments;

collecting analytics data for the one or more form fragments over a period of time;

obtaining at least one matching form fragment from the form repository based on a contextual text match of a search query or criteria;

ordering the at least one matching form fragment based on the analytics data; and

providing the ordered at least one matching form fragment.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the obtaining at least one matching form fragment comprises:

performing a search on the repository based the search query or criteria; and

retrieving at least one matching form fragment from the form repository based on the contextual text match, wherein the contextual text match considers other form fragments used in a present form.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the ordering the at least one matching form fragment comprises:

calculating a standard deviation of values for a portion of the analytics data of each of the matching form fragments;

assigning a weight to the standard deviation of values for the portion of the analytics data;

calculating an overall score for each of the matching form fragments using the weight and standard deviation of values for the portion of the analytics data; and

ordering the matching form fragments by overall score.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the ordering the at least one matching form fragment based on the analytics data comprises:

determining a contextual score for the matching form fragments based on existing form fragments of the form, wherein form fragments originating from the same form are given a higher weight;

combining the contextual score with an analytics score to determine an overall score; and

ordering the matching form fragments by the overall score.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein each of the one or more form fragments comprises at least one of validation rules, formatting rules, help content and accessibility content.

17. A system comprising:

a form repository configured to store a plurality of forms comprising one or more form fragments, each of the one or more form fragments comprises at least one of a label, validation rules, formatting rules, help content and accessibility content;

a search engine configured to search the form repository for form fragments based on a search criteria;

an analytics components configured to collect analytics data for the one or more form fragments over a period of time, the analytics components collecting at least one of validation errors, help accesses, and time spent on a form fragment; and

a scoring component configured to calculate a score for the form fragments returned by the search engine.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

a form design component configured to input a search term for a form fragment in a search field and to retrieve top scoring form fragments returned by the search engine.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the search engine is further configured to:

receive a search term for a form fragment;

retrieve form fragments from the repository matching the search term, wherein the matching is on a fragment name or fragment metadata; and

return the retrieved form fragments.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the scoring component is further configured to:

calculate a standard deviation of values for validation errors of each of the matching form fragments from the search engine;

assign a weight to the standard deviation of values for validation errors;

calculate an overall score for each of the matching form fragments using the weight and standard deviation of values for validation errors; and

order the matching form fragments by overall score.