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

Claim 11:
12. 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:
receive a request from a first client device to perform at least a first automation task to process at least a first work item from a plurality of work items, wherein the first work item is a first electronic document and the first automation task operates to process at least the first electronic document in an automated manner;
providing to the first client device, software code to implement a first node manager that executes on the first client device, wherein the first node manager further initiates on the client device to manage the first automation task;
causing retrieval of a set of task processing instructions that corresponds to the first work item,
interacting with the first client device which executes the set of task processing instructions that corresponds to the first work item; and
receiving, from the first node manager, status data indicative of status of processing of the first work item.