Patent ID: 9696890
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer program product for file-centric form selection, the computer program product comprising: a computer readable storage medium and program instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium, the program instructions comprising instructions for: receiving a selection of electronic computer files from a user; determining a list of available forms, each form in the list of available forms having input fields, wherein at least one of the input fields of each form accepts at least one file as an input, and wherein each input field is designated as a mandatory or an optional input field for each form; filtering the list of available forms into a list of relevant forms, wherein the list of relevant forms includes only forms that include one or more input fields that accept as input at least one file from the selection of electronic computer files; determining a relevance value for each form in the list of relevant forms, wherein the relevance value is determined according to a count of the number of mandatory input fields and optional input fields on each form that are able to be completed using the selection of electronic computer files as input to the input fields; and presenting the list of relevant forms to a user in order of the relevance value determined for each form.