Patent ID: 8707157
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for populating forms, comprising: identifying a plurality of inputs to a form on a merchant website from a plurality of past users of the merchant website, wherein the form comprises a message field and a date field; receiving, from a current user, a request to view the form; identifying, in response to a selection of a product on the merchant website by the current user, a plurality of temporal data comprising a date when the request to view the form was received from the current user and a name of the current user from metadata within a browser operated by the current user; identifying a geographic location of the current user based on an internet protocol (IP) address of a computing device of the current user; performing, based on the geographic location and the plurality of temporal data comprising the date, a statistical analysis on the plurality of inputs by: determining, by a computer processor and based on the statistical analysis, that a statistical threshold corresponding to the message field and the date field on the form is exceeded; calculating, in response to determining that that the statistical threshold is exceeded, a default value for the message field comprising the name of the event and the name of the current user; and sending the default value and a date of the event to the computing device to populate the message field on the form and the date field on the form.