System and method for adaptively anticipating next user interactions with a computer application

A computing system, comprising:

• a processor;
• a display screen configured to facilitate user interaction with a legacy computer application executing on the computing system;
• a capturing module stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium and including instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to capture within a controls data structure an ordered history of user interactions with controls of a computerized form provided by the legacy computer application executing on the computing system;
• a probabilistic model module stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium and including instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
• generate a likelihood data structure, wherein the likelihood data structure represents conditional probability values indicating a likelihood that each control of the computerized form will be a next control used, conditioned on the ordered history of user interactions, and generate a list of next likely controls to be used based on the likelihood data structure, wherein the next likely controls are ranked within the list of next likely controls according to the conditional probability values associated with the next likely controls;
• and
• a visual user interface module stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium and including instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
• generate a limited graphical user interface representing the list of next likely controls to exclusion of other controls of the computerized form, and regulate a next control of the computerized form to be used at least in part by displaying the limited graphical user interface, representing the list of next likely controls, via the display screen.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the computing device to at least:

• capture within a controls data structure an ordered history of user interactions with controls of a computerized form provided by a legacy computer application executing on a computing device;
• generate a likelihood data structure representing conditional probability values that indicate a likelihood that each control of the computerized form will be a next control used, conditioned on the ordered history of user interactions;
• generate a list of next likely controls to be used based on the likelihood data structure, wherein the next likely controls are ranked within the list of next likely controls according to the conditional probability values associated with the next likely controls;
• generate a limited graphical user interface representing the list of next likely controls to exclusion of other controls of the computerized form;
• and
• regulate a next control of the computerized form to be used at least in part by displaying the limited graphical user interface, representing the list of next likely controls, via a display screen.