Form filling engine to populate fields of an electronic form

US10445419B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Adobe Inc. · US

Inventors

• Shawn A. Gaither · Raleigh, US
• Richard Treitman · Lexington, US
• David Parmenter · Newton, US
• Arian Behzadi · San Francisco, US
• Kyeung sub Yeom · San Mateo, US
• James Alisago · Felton, US
• Frederic Thevenet · San Francisco, US
• Andres Gonzalez · Austin, US
• Anatole A. Matveief · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 5, 2016
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2019
• Expiry date: Aug 26, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/453
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for assisting a user with completing an electronic form via a computing device are described. For example, the user operates the computing device to populate fields of the electronic form. Rather than presenting the electronic form at the computing device in order to populate the fields, a form filling engine reformulates the electronic form into a set of input requests. The form filling engine is local or remote to the computing device. Each input request, when presented, provides guidance about at least one field and solicit a user response that is proper for that field. The form filling engine presents the input requests via the computing device one at a time to solicit the user responses. Data from the user responses are used by the form filling engine to populate the fields of the electronic form.