Intuit, Inc.

Jay J Yu

Gang Wang

Matthew L Sivertson

Vinay Kumar

Kevin M McCluskey

Alex G Balazs

Anshu Verma

Bojan Beran

Yao H Morin

Eugene Krivopaltsev

Elangovan Shanmugam

Yamit Mody

Ann Catherine Jose

Evan M Worley

Gaurav V Chaubal

Luis Felipe Cabrera

Tapasvi Moturu

Amit Arya

Muzaffar H Malik

Jeffery Weber

Alexey Povkh

Jeffery Brewer

Patteaswaran Karivaradasamy

Jesse M Rodriguez

Steve Lin

Kerry K Kartchner

Kenichi Mori

Per-Kristian G Halvorsen

Gerald Baron Huff

Dirk A Reschly

Adam B Whitney

Thac S Pham

Anthony J Kouma

A method for rule-based composition of user interfaces. A machine-learned rule repository is established based on previously observed combinations of UI states, UI features, and user features. A classifier classifies users into segments. Each segment includes users for which a combination of user features and UI states are defined. A first machine learning model (MLM) estimates a user segment-content preference including preferred UI content. A second MLM estimates a seen content-seen content similarity UI content preferences estimated according to prior UI content a user has seen. Based on the UI state and based on the user ID, rule-based recipes are obtained. Each rule-based recipe specifies a corresponding UI content suitable for an interaction between the user and the interface. A selected rule-based recipe is selected from the rule-based recipes. Specific UI content specified by the selected rule-based recipe is obtained, and the interface is updated with the specific UI content.

Method and system for rule-based composition of user interfaces

A method for providing user content that may receive, from a user device, a request for content. The method may obtain, in response to the request, a field identifier from a multiple of field identifiers according to a priority for a multiple of fields corresponding to the field identifiers. The field identifier may correspond to a field. The method may obtain application content based on the field identifier. The method may generate declarative content from the application content. The declarative content may express the application content in a declarative programming language. The method may transmit, to the user device, the declarative content.

Method and system for generating dynamic user experience

A method for rule-based composition of user interfaces involves obtaining a user identity (ID) of a user accessing an application using a user interface and obtaining a user interface (UI) state of the user interface. Based on the UI state and based on the user ID, a plurality of rule-based recipes are obtained. Each rule-based recipe specifies a UI content suitable for an interaction between the user and the user interface. The method further includes ranking each of the rule-based recipes of the plurality of rule-based recipes based on a likeliness that the rule-based recipe is suitable, given the UI state and the user ID, identifying, from the ranked plurality of rule-based recipes, a highest-ranked rule-based recipe, obtaining the UI content specified by the highest-ranked rule-based recipe, and updating the user interface with the UI content.

This disclosure relates to facilitating communication between widgets of cross-platform applications. An exemplary system includes computing components configured to execute an application shell. The system is configured to cause the application shell to do the following. The application shell instantiates a cross-platform application comprising a plurality of application widgets. The application shell then determines that a first application widget of the plurality of application widgets executes instructions through an execution container of the cross-platform application. The application shell then receives a request comprising criteria from the first application widget, wherein the criteria specify an application widget to listen for communications from. The application shell then receives a communication from the second application widget and determines that the communication matches the criteria of the request by the first application widget. Finally, the application shell transmits to the first application widget an update containing data from the communication.

Semantic and standard user interface (UI) interoperability in dynamically generated cross-platform applications

This disclosure relates to customizing deployment of an application to a user interface of a client device. An exemplary method generally includes training a model based on historical context information of a plurality of users by identifying correlations between the historical context information and a plurality of widgets and storing the correlations in the model. The method further includes receiving context information from the client device. The method further includes determining a user intent based on the context information using the model. The method further includes selecting one or more widgets to include in a custom user interface definition based, at least in part, on the user intent. The method further includes transmitting, to the user interface of the client device, the custom user interface definition.

Deployment and customization of applications at the widget level

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for facilitating communication between widgets of cross-platform applications. An exemplary system is configured to instantiate a cross-platform application comprising a plurality of application widgets. The system is further configured to determine that a first application widget of the plurality of application widgets executes instructions through an execution container of the cross-platform application. The system is further configured to receive a request comprising criteria from the first application widget, wherein the criteria specify an application widget to listen for communications from. The system is further configured to receive a communication from the second application widget and determines that the communication matches the criteria of the request by the first application widget. The system is further configured to transmit to the first application widget an update containing data from the communication.

This disclosure relates to customizing deployment of an application to a user interface of a client device. An exemplary method includes training a model based on historical context information of a plurality of users by identifying correlations between the historical context information and a plurality of user interface components. The method further includes receiving context information from the client device. The method further includes determining a user intent based on the context information using the model. The method further includes customizing one or more widgets by selecting one or more user interface components to include in the one or more widgets based on the user intent. The method further includes generating a custom user interface definition comprising the one or more widgets. The method further includes transmitting, to the user interface of the client device, the custom user interface definition.

Right for me deployment and customization of applications with customized widgets

Modular computerized tax return preparation systems that allow tax data determinations to be performed when the user indicates that tax data will not be entered, which may be for various reasons including the user declining to provide personal information (such as a social security number or other personal identification information), not knowing the requested data, or not having the requested data readily available. A user interface controller presents an interview screen requesting data tax return data and the user responds that the requested data applies to the user but is not being entered or will be entered at a later time. A placeholder is generated or selected for interim use until the requested data is provided by the user, and when provided, tax data determinations and calculations can be repeated as necessary if the provided data differs from the placeholder.

Preparation of electronic tax return when electronic tax return data is requested but not provided by taxpayer

This disclosure relates to cross-platform applications that include native and non-native components on mobile devices. An exemplary method generally includes receiving a first workflow step definition including a first set of widgets to be loaded into an application shell. A mobile shell identifies a type of each widget in the first set of widgets (e.g., native or platform-agnostic) and loads each widget into the mobile shell based on the widget type. For a platform-agnostic widget, the mobile shell creates a platform-agnostic widget proxy service, which provides a runtime environment. The platform-agnostic widget may be loaded into the platform-agnostic widget proxy service and executes in the runtime provided thereby.

Deploying cross-platform applications on mobile devices with native and web components

Computer-implemented methods, systems and articles of manufacture for rendering paginated interview screens that include arrangements of tax questions or topics representative of question or topic relevancy and that are selected and arranged based at least in part upon determined question or topic categorization and/or ranking. Different pagination structures may be utilized to visually indicate tax question or topic relevancy and to encourage or enable users of a tax return preparation application to answer more pertinent questions or topics before others, while also allowing the user to navigate or scroll questions or topics of paginated screens and to select questions or topics to answer or address at the user's discretion, without being restricted by a pre-determined sequence of interview questions or hard-coded question-and-answer frameworks. Interview screen paginations and content thereof are dynamically updated as runtime data of the electronic tax return is received or updated.

Dynamic pagination of tax return questions during preparation of electronic tax return

A method for providing user content may obtain multiple fields. The method may generate, by a user content flow driver, a priority field list for an application workflow. The method may sort the fields based on the priority field list to obtain sorted fields. The method may select a next field from the sorted fields to obtain a selected next field. The method may generate content based on the selected next field. The method may transmit, to a user experience player, the generated content.

Method and system for organized user experience workflow

A method for storage retrieval, including receiving a request for application content. The request includes a first field identifier. The method further includes submitting a query to a content repository, for each asset including the first field identifier, receiving a first asset including the first field identifier and a second asset including the first field identifier, and extracting a first variability tag from the first asset and a second variability tag from the second asset based on the first asset having a matching asset property value to the second asset. The first asset and second asset are scored based at least on the first variability tag and at least on the second variability tag to obtain a first and second score, respectively. The method further includes selecting the first asset based on the first score and the second score, and transmitting the first asset as the application content.

Methods and system for storage retreival

A method for providing application content including obtaining, by a declarative content engine executing on a computer processor, an initial application content from a content repository and expressing the initial application content in a declarative programming language to obtain declarative content and transmitting the declarative content to a user experience player (UXP). The UXP processes the declarative content to obtain the initial application content, binds the initial application content to first platform-specific templates and first platform-specific navigation patterns, and renders the initial application content in a first platform-specific user display format. Additionally, the method includes receiving a user action from the UXP in response to the transmission of the declarative content, storing the user action associated with the declarative content in a user data instance repository, determining, using an interaction module and the received user action, a next application content, and obtaining the next application content from the content repository.

Common declarative representation of application content and user interaction content processed by a user experience player

A method for organizing an application workflow for users that may transmit, to a user device, a first content for a first field of multiple fields. The method may receive, in response to transmitting the first content and from the user device, user data for the first field. The method may obtain a dynamic set of fields selected from the fields, where a portion of the fields are excluded from the dynamic set of fields based on the user data. The method may select, according to a priority of the fields, a second field from the dynamic set of fields. The method may transmit, to the user device, a second content for the second field.

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Jay J Yu