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Automated creation and maintenance of programs to process internet form related submissions

  • US 7,934,149 B1
  • Filed: 09/26/2000
  • Issued: 04/26/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • receiving, through a network, a form authored by a form authoring tool and containing one or more input fields;

    parsing, independently of the form authoring tool, the received form to identify the input fields contained in the received form;

    providing, independently of the form authoring tool, a graphical user interface to enable selection and configuration of one or more actions to be carried out in response to a subsequent specific submission of the form to a server by a third party, wherein the graphical user interface includes the identified input fields, wherein the selection of the one or more actions is from a group of two or more types of actions, and wherein the configuration of the one or more actions allows for the customization of the behavior of the selected one or more actions and allows for the behavior of the configured actions to be dependent upon the identified input fields or the data input during the specific submission of the form to the server;

    automatically generating, independently of the form authoring tool, program code to carry out the one or more selected and configured actions, wherein the program code is external to the form and independent of the form authoring tool;

    receiving the specific submission of the form from the third party at the server;

    automatically determining whether the generated program code is consistent with the specific submission of the form; and

    executing the program code on the server in response to receipt of the specific submission of the form from the third party to carry out the one or more selected and configured actions.

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