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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2009
Thirugnanam Subbiah, Irving, TX (US);
Raghunath Battula, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kenneth W. Hanscom, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Charles R. Honton, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Don E. Bernal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gang Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
David L. Henry, Livingston, TX (US);
Thirugnanam Subbiah, Irving, TX (US);
Raghunath Battula, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kenneth W. Hanscom, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Charles R. Honton, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Don E. Bernal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gang Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
David L. Henry, Livingston, TX (US);
INTUIT INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a computer system, a method and a computer-program product (e.g., software) for use with the computer system are described. These embodiments may allow users to create or maintain (including repair and validation), which collect user information from a web page. In particular, using a web browser extension, one or more users' actions while navigating or interacting with the web page are captured. This captured user-action information may specify the layout of the web page, including data locations and/or types of data. Then, using the captured user-action information, a new scraping script can be generated or, based at least in part on determined changes to the web page, an existing scraping script can be maintained.