| 摘要 |
A data source, such as a web page, a locally retrieved document, user-entered information, etc., is made visible to a user via a display, such as a computer monitor or touch-screen tablet or smart phone screen. The user selects data of interest from the display and indicates its type to a collection routine, which runs either overlaid onto the frame as a template being viewed by the user, or in the background. The collection routine then automatically associates the data with the corresponding field of a database. A later user may then view not only the current data record, but others, so as to see an organized compilation of information from multiple data sources. The collection routine may also enable multi-user and multi-source input. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method for collecting and organizing data comprising:
sensing, by a data-collection software module running within a user device, a selection by a user of at least one data item displayed by user-layer software; displaying an input template; sensing an indication by the user of selection, for each selected data item, of a data label of the displayed input template; automatically associating each selected data item with a respective database field corresponding to the data label; upon occurrence of a trigger event, sending data to the database for storage corresponding to the selected data item(s) according to their respective database fields in which: the data-collection software module runs simultaneous with the user-layer software and operates between the user-layer software and the database; and the data-collection software module is presented to the user as a graphical user interface. |
