Auto-Fill User Interface Fields via Message Content Search
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face the cumbersome task of searching through messages to retrieve information for fillable fields in applications, such as account numbers and passwords, which can be time-consuming and inefficient.
Innovation Solution
A computing system is configured to present a user interface with fillable fields, determine their content type, and automatically search messages associated with the user account to find matching text strings, allowing the system to fill these fields with the retrieved information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If users manually search through messages to retrieve information for fillable fields, then they can obtain the required information, but the process becomes time-consuming and cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically performs the information retrieval and field-filling tasks without requiring user intervention. The computing system monitors the user interface, identifies fillable fields, searches messages for relevant information, and automatically populates the fields, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring manual user operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system proactively searches for and retrieves information from messages before the user needs to fill the fields. By performing the information retrieval action in advance and automatically transferring it to the appropriate fields, the system eliminates the need for users to manually search and copy information.
2Productivity
If the system automatically fills fields by searching messages, then user efficiency is enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The computing system integrates multiple functions into a single automated process: monitoring the user interface for fillable fields, determining field content types, searching messages for relevant information, and automatically filling the fields. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate user actions into one unified system capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary layer between the messages and the fillable fields. Instead of users directly interacting with both messages and fields, the computing system acts as a mediator that automatically transfers information from messages to the appropriate fields based on content type matching and field identification.
Data Source
AI summary
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may comprise instructions stored thereon. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to cause a computing system to at least present a user interface of an application in association with a user account, the user interface including at least one fillable field, determine a content type of the at least one fillable field, search messages stored in association with the user account for a text string associated with the content type of the at least one fillable field, and fill the at least one fillable field with the text string.