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US 11,960,930 B2Granted
Automated software robot creation for robotic process automation
AssigneeAutomation Anywhere, Inc.
InventorsRanjna Garg Goyal, Radek Hecl, Narayanan Seshadri, Niveditha Nataraj
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Abstract
Improved techniques for combining a plurality of distinct recordings pertaining to user interactions with one or more software applications each of which concerns performing a task. Then, the combined recording can be used to form a software automation process for performing the task in an automated fashion. Advantageously, the improved techniques enable a robotic process automation (RPA) system to capture multiple recordings, combine (e.g., merge) the recordings, and form a software automation process to perform repetitive tasks in an automated manner, all with little or no assistance from a user.
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A robotic process automation system, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a data store configured to store a plurality of recordings, each recording pertaining to a series of user-initiated events with one or more software programs operating on one or more computing devices;
- at least one recording pre-processor, the at least one recording pre-processor being configured to (i) process each of the one or more of the recordings to determine identifiers for the user-initiated events within the each of the one or more recordings, (ii) form a digital representation for each of the one or more recordings, and (iii) examine each of the one or more recordings for repeating sequence of events in the corresponding recording to determine at least one repeating sequence in the one or more recordings;
- an aggregator configured to be executed by the one or more processors to combine two or more of the digital representations for two or more the recordings to form an aggregated recording digital representation, wherein the aggregator includes at least (i) a match detection module configured to detect matching user-initiated events present in each of the two or more of the digital representations for two or more of the recordings, and (ii) a merge digital representations module configured to merge the two or more of the digital representations for two or more of the recordings to form the aggregated recording digital representation;
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- a software automation process generator configured to be executed by the one or more processors to create a software automation process based on the aggregated recording digital representation, wherein the created software automation process is executable by at least other processor or the one or more processors to perform software automation in accordance with the aggregated recording digital representation.
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A computer-implemented method for creating a software automation process for use with a robotic process automation system, the method comprising:
- determining a plurality of contextual identifiers for each of a plurality of events from a first recording of a first series of events involving one or more software programs operating on one or more computing devices;
- determining a plurality of contextual identifiers for each of a plurality of events from a second recording of a second series of events involving one or more software programs operating on one or more computing devices;
- forming a representation for the first series of events from the first recording;
- forming a representation for the second series of events from the second recording;
- identifying one or more events from the events in the first series of events that match one or more events from the events in the second series of events, the identifying of the one or more events that match is performed based at least on the plurality of contextual identifiers pertaining to the corresponding events in the first series of events and the second series of events;
- combining the representation of the first series of events with the representation of the second series of events to form a combined representation, the combining being dependent on the identified one or more events that match, the combining including at least merging the representation of the first series of events with the representation for the second series of events, the merging being dependent on the one or more events that match events to form the combined representation;
- producing a software automation process based on the combined representation;
- and
- executing the software automation process to perform software automation in accordance with the combined representation.
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A computer-implemented method for creating a software automation process for use with a robotic process automation system, the method comprising:
- determining a plurality of contextual identifiers for each of a plurality of events from a first recording of a first series of events involving one or more software programs operating on one or more computing devices;
- determining a plurality of contextual identifiers for each of a plurality of events from a second recording of a second series of events involving one or more software programs operating on one or more computing devices;
- forming a digital representation for the first recording, the digital representation for the first recording including at least the events in the first series of events and the plurality of contextual identifiers therefor;
- forming a digital representation for the second recording, the digital representation for the second recording including at least the events in the second series of events and the plurality of contextual identifiers therefor;
- combining the digital representation for the first recording with the digital representation for the second recording to form a combined digital representation, the combining including at least (i) determining matching events that are present in the digital representation for the first recording and the digital representation for the second recording, and (ii) merging the digital representation for the first recording with the digital representation for the second recording, the merging being dependent on the matching events to form the combined digital representation;
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- producing a software automation process to carry out the combined representation, whereby the events from the first recording and the second recording are able to be programmatically performed without user interaction by execution of the software automation process.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium including at least computer program code tangible stored thereon for creating a software automation process for use with a robotic process automation system, the computer readable medium comprising:
- computer program code for determining a plurality of contextual identifiers for each of a plurality of events from a first recording of a first series of events involving one or more software programs operating on one or more computing devices;
- computer program code for determining a plurality of contextual identifiers for each of a plurality of events from a second recording of a second series of events involving one or more software programs operating on one or more computing devices;
- computer program code for forming a representation for the first series of events from the first recording;
- computer program code for forming a representation for the second series of events from the second recording;
- computer program code for identifying one or more events from the events in the first series of events that match one or more events from the events in the second series of events, the identifying of the one or more events that match is performed based at least on the plurality of contextual identifiers pertaining to the corresponding events in the first series of events and the second series of events;
- computer program code for combining the representation of the first series of events with the representation of the second series of events to form a combined representation, the combining being dependent on the identified one or more events that match, the combining including at least (i) determining matching events that are present in the representation of the first series of events and the representation of the second series of events, and (ii) merging the representation of the first series of events with the representation for the second series of events, the merging being dependent on the matching events to form the combined representation;
- computer program code for producing a software automation process based on the combined representation;
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- computer program code for executing the software automation process to perform software automation in accordance with the combined representation.
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A robotic process automation system, comprising:
- one or more processors;
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- a memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors, the memory containing instructions executed by the processor to cause the one or more processors to perform a process comprising:
- determining a plurality of contextual identifiers for each of a plurality of events from a first recording of a first series of events involving one or more software programs operating on one or more computing devices;
- determining a plurality of contextual identifiers for each of a plurality of events from a second recording of a second series of events involving one or more software programs operating on one or more computing devices;
- forming a representation for the first series of events from the first recording;
- forming a representation for the second series of events from the second recording;
- identifying one or more events from the events in the first series of events that match one or more events from the events in the second series of events, the identifying of the one or more events that match is performed based at least on the plurality of contextual identifiers pertaining to the corresponding events in the first series of events and the second series of events;
- identifying a repeating sequence of events in the first series of events;
- modifying the representation of the first series of events to reflect the identified repeating sequence of events;
- combining the modified representation of the first series of events with the representation of the second series of events to forma combined representation, the combining being dependent on the identified one or more events that match;
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- producing a software automation process to carry out the combined representation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.