SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED WEB SITE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SCRIPTING USING UNTRAINED USERS

Patent №

US 8,706,762

Granted

2014-04-22

Filed 2012

Owner

INTUIT INC.

Lab

AI components

4

nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13473478

A system and method allows users to provide portions of scripts or scripts for retrieval of information from one or more web sites of one or more businesses by demonstrating operation of the one or more web sites and identifying locations of one or more fields on each web page of the one or more web sites, and the system and method stores the scripts and uses the scripts to retrieve information from such web site or web sites for any number of users. Different portions of different scripts may be used as a single script to retrieve information from a single web site. Scripts or portions of scripts may be repaired using information from previously working scripts or portions, the web site when the script or portion worked, and the web site when the script or portion did not work.

Natural languageKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 40/14G06F 11/3409G06F 16/00G06F 16/95G06F 16/953G06F 16/9535G06F 40/149G06F 11/3414+6 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.90
Knowledge representation0.86
Machine learning0.06
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

INTUIT INC.

assignment · 288740750

Assignors

PATZER, AARON, SINI, JEAN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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