Patent ID: 11921497
Assignee: AUTOMATION ANYWHERE, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 21:
22. A computer program product for supporting automation tasks, which automate application-level tasks as if such application-level tasks were performed by a human user, the computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and including instructions for causing a computer system to execute a method for executing automation tasks, the method comprising the actions of:
provide a plurality of sets of task processing instructions;
receive a request from a first client device to perform at least an automation task to process at least a work item from the plurality of work items;
initiating a virtual machine on a second client device;
providing to the virtual machine on the second client device, software code to implement a node manager that executes on the second client device, wherein the node manager initiates, within the virtual machine on the second client device, to manage the automation task;
causing retrieval of a set of task processing instructions that corresponds to the work item, the set of task processing instructions being retrieved being chosen from the plurality of sets of task processing instructions;
interacting with the second client device which executes the set of task processing instructions that corresponds to the work item; and
receiving, from the first node manager, status data indicative of status of processing of the second work item.