Method and apparatus for form filling

摘要

In the presently preferred embodiment of the invention, every time a user submits a form the client software tries to match the submitted information with the stored profile of that user. If a match is discovered, the program tags the field of the recognized data with a corresponding type. The resulting profile can be used after that to help all subsequent users to fill the same form.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
detecting, by a first application, that a second application has loaded a form, wherein the form comprises one or more fields; accessing, by the first application, user data for a first user stored by the first application, the user data comprising one or more data values; based on tracked information indicating values entered by a set of one or more other users into the one or more fields of the form, identifying, by at least one processor, a correspondence between the one or more fields of the form loaded by the second application and the one or more data values of the user data for the first user stored by the first application, wherein the set of one or more other users does not include the first user; and completing the identified one or more fields of the form loaded by the second application with the corresponding one or more data values of the user data for the first user stored by the first application and identified based on the tracked information indicating values entered by the one or more other users into the one or more fields of the form.