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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2007
Zachary A. Garbow, Rochester, MN (US);
Bryan M. Logan, Rochester, MN (US);
Terrence T. Nixa, Rochester, MN (US);
Kevin G. Paterson, San Antonio, TX (US);
Zachary A. Garbow, Rochester, MN (US);
Bryan M. Logan, Rochester, MN (US);
Terrence T. Nixa, Rochester, MN (US);
Kevin G. Paterson, San Antonio, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Automatically completing a GUI task. Exemplary embodiments a method including providing a user configurable auto-completion application operating in the background of a computer operating system and executing on a computing device, the auto-completion application monitoring and archiving user activities, wherein certain actions by the user are parsed and indexed, analyzing the parsed and indexed actions of the user to determine at least one of relationships, user interactions, user statistics, various states of the user's actions over time, and images or video of the user's interaction to create an index of the user's typical interactions with the system and providing a fast-forward functionality based on the index such that a tree structure is presented to the user on a display device of the computing device, the tree structure indicating the user's current state in the system and one or more future states the user typically takes based on a past act.