Uipath Inc.

Alison Tai

Andrew Hall

Inter-session automation for RPA is disclosed. A robot or another application or process running in the user session may interact with an application, but one or more attended RPA robots in one or more child sessions perform operations and fetch data that the user session robot will then use to interact with the application in the user session. Attended RPA robots in client sessions may share data through an IPC protocol, by storing data in a persistent data store, such as a spreadsheet, an object-oriented database, a plain text file, another data store or file, etc. The user session robot or another application or process running in the parent session can then read this information and respond accordingly.

Inter-session automation for robotic process automation (RPA) robots

Shared variable binding and parallel execution of a process and robot workflow activities for robotic process automation (RPA) are disclosed. An RPA robot may be 'bound' to a variable that is accessed by and displayed in an application. When the RPA robot is triggered, the RPA robot performs potentially conditional logic that may result in modifications to one or more bound variables. The RPA robot may lookup data, perform calculations, check on the status of other processes, and/or perform any other logical operations. The RPA robot may then modify, delete, or otherwise change the value of one or more bound variables, causing the application associated with those variables to display the results (e.g., when the user interface (UI) of the application is refreshed).

Shared variable binding and parallel execution of a process and robot workflow activities for robotic process automation

Inter-session automation for robotic process automation (RPA) is disclosed. A robot or another application or process running in the user session may interact with an application, but one or more attended RPA robots in one or more child sessions perform operations and fetch data that the user session robot will then use to interact with the application in the user session. Attended RPA robots in client sessions may share data through an Inter-Process Communication (IPC) protocol, by storing data in a persistent data store, such as a spreadsheet, an object-oriented database, a plain text file, another data store or file, etc. The user session robot or another application or process running in the parent session can then read this information and respond accordingly.

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Alison Tai