US 12,583,106 B2 · Automation windows for robotic process automation

Abstract

Automation windows for RPA for attended or unattended robots are disclosed. A child session is created and hosted as a window including the UIs of applications of a window associated with a parent session. Running multiple sessions allows a robot to operate in this child session while the user interacts with the parent session. The user may thus be able to interact with applications that the robot is not using or the user and the robot may be able to interact with the same application if that application is capable of this functionality. The user and the robot are both interacting with the same application instances and file system. Changes made via the robot and the user in an application will be made as if a single user made them, rather than having the user and the robot each work with separate versions of the applications and file systems.

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Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program, the computer program configured to cause at least one processor to:

initialize an automation in a child session as a process;
and
execute the automation, wherein a child session window of the child session is located within a parent session window of an operating system,
during execution, the automation executes a workflow comprising a plurality of activities within the child session, and
a user interacting with an instance of an application does not interfere with the automation interacting with a different instance of the application via the child session or an instance of a different application via the child session,
the child session is launched from an application in a different session, communication between the application and the automation is accomplished using an inter-process communication (IPC) protocol, and
the application is configured to send commands to the automation process via the IPC protocol.

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A computing system, comprising:

memory storing computer program instructions;
and
computer implemented method, comprising:
at least one processor configured to execute the computer program instructions, wherein the computer program instructions are configured to cause the at least one processor to:
initialize automation in a child session as a process, by a computing system;
and
execute the automation, by the computing system, wherein a child session window of the child session is located within a parent session window of an operating system, during execution, the automation executes workflow comprising a plurality of activities within the child session, and
a user interacting with an instance of an application does not interfere with RPA robot interacting with a different instance of the application via the child session or an instance of a different application via the child session;
the child session is launched from an application in a different session, communication between the application and the automation is accomplished using an inter-process communication (IPC) protocol, and
the application is configured to send commands to the automation process via the IPC protocol.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Automation windows for robotic process automation

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Abstract

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