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
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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.
AI classification
Ownership
INTUIT INC.
assignment · 288740750
Assignors
PATZER, AARON, SINI, JEAN
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.