Patent ID: 7930636

Claim:
A method of providing an auto-completion feature in a graphical user interface (GUI), the method consisting of: providing a user configurable auto-completion application operating in a background of a computer operating system and executing on a computing device, the auto-completion application monitoring and archiving user activities, wherein certain actions by a user are parsed and indexed, and wherein snapshots of images on the GUI are stored, an interval of snapshots being taken and an indexing rate depending on CPU utilization; analyzing the parsed and indexed actions of the user to determine at least one of relationships, user interactions, user statistics, various states of the user's actions over time, and images or video of the user's interaction to create an index of typical interactions of the user with the system; and providing a fast-forward functionality based on the index such that a tree structure is presented to the user on a display device of the computing device, the tree structure indicating a current state of the user in the system and one or more future states the user typically takes based on past actions, wherein the auto-completion application includes instructions to: query the indexed actions of the user to locate auto-completion options based on similar application states; compare an application and a user context to a prior context; and present auto-completion options that match a state of the application and the user context, wherein the interval of snapshots being taken and the indexing rate are one of increased or decreased depending on CPU utilization, such that during heavy CPU utilization the interval of snapshots being taken can be maintained, and parsing and analysis of the snapshots are delayed until CPU cycles are available, and wherein indexing can be compressed.