Patent ID: 7797351

Claim:
A method for generating data input templates, comprising: monitoring data objects that are communicated from a client interface to an application program to determine which of the data objects are accepted by the application program, wherein the data objects comprise data that has been entered by a user at the client interface; capturing and copying one or more of the data objects accepted by the application program; generating a data input template, the data input template comprising the data associated with the captured and copied data objects and a sequence in which the data was entered into the client interface; providing the data input template to the user when the application program requests the user to enter data at the client interface, wherein the data input template enables the user to provide, to the application program, repetitive batch input of the data associated with the captured and copied data objects when the application program requests multiple sets of data, and further wherein the client interface has a hierarchical structure, and each data object includes an address identifier that identifies a location within the hierarchical structure with which the data object is associated; generating metadata for each data object based on the address identifier; storing the data objects and the metadata; and structuring the template based at least in part on the metadata for the data objects and a metadata for event objects so that the structure of the template corresponds to the hierarchical structure of the client interface.