Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070282832
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Prior Art Detail
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | This invention is about observing user actions with timeline information and inferring strength of relationships between given user actions within a timeframe |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | US20070033166A1 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A |
| Patentee Name | Novell, Inc |
| Relevant Pages, Columns, or Lines | A system that searches for obj |
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| Filing Date | August 3, 2005 |
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Notes / To Do
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Excerpt
Excerpt This invention is about recording user actions including keyboard events/data and maintaining a kind of incident log which can be used to infer relationships between a number of tasks user was doing at a given time. |
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Claims
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A system that facilitates automatic tracking of user data comprising:
a keystroke capture component that captures keystrokes in the form of a character string;
an extraction component that extracts one or more character substrings having at least a minimum length of characters from the character string;
a string analysis component that analyzes the character substrings extracted from the character string to determine a frequency of occurrence for each extracted character substring; and
an order component that orders the extracted character substrings according to at least one parameter comprising the frequency of occurrence.
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The concept of infering tasks relationships ( it could be about making online payments using credit card as well as proclaimed in the Microsoft application.)
The concept of infering tasks relationships ( it could be about making online payments using credit card as well as proclaimed in the Microsoft application.)
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The system of Claim 1 further comprises an input monitoring component that monitors input entered into an active browser.
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again incident log proposed in the prior art covers this claim
again incident log proposed in the prior art covers this claim
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A method that facilitates automatic tracking of user data comprising:
capturing keystrokes entered into an active web browser as a continuous string of characters;
analyzing the string of characters in order to find one or more substrings that repeat; and
recording one or more repeating substrings along with their associated entry locations and/or times of entry.
Relevance
automatic tracking of user data --> incident log maintained in prior art
automatic tracking of user data --> incident log maintained in prior art
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