Systems and methods for completing tasks

An apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-volatile memory storing computer program code that when executed on the processor causes the processor to execute a process including:
• determining a potential for tasks of one or more applications not to be completed at a given time, the one or more applications being hosted on remote computing devices;
• initiating a call to one or more application programmable interfaces (APIs) of the remote computing devices to retrieve data about the one or more tasks from the one or more applications, the tasks being generated by the one or more applications and including a time of completion being that of the given time;
• initiating another call to the APIs of the remote computing devices to retrieve other data about tasks that have been completed by other users from the one or more applications;
• analyzing the retrieved other data to identify at least one of the completed tasks as being similar to the at least one of the generated tasks, based on comparing task descriptions and completion times of the at least one of the completed tasks and the at least one of the generated tasks;
• and
• initiating an update to at least one of the one or more applications using the retrieved data, so that at least one of the generated tasks is completed before or at the given time, wherein the initiation of the update to the at least one of the one or more applications is based on identifying another user who completed the at least one completed task similar to the at least one generated task, based on the comparison of the task descriptions and the completion times.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium encoding instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause a process to be carried out, the process including:

• determining a potential for tasks of one or more applications not to be completed at a given time, the one or more applications being hosted on remote computing devices;
• initiating a call to one or more application programmable interfaces (APIs) of the remote computing devices to retrieve data about the one or more tasks from the one or more applications, the tasks being generated by the one or more applications and including a time of completion being that of the given time;
• initiating another call to the APIs of the remote computing devices to retrieve other data about tasks that have been completed by other users from the one or more applications;
• analyzing the retrieved other data to identify at least one of the completed tasks as being similar to the at least one of the generated tasks, based on comparing task descriptions and completion times of the at least one of the completed tasks and the at least one of the generated tasks;
• and
• initiating an update to at least one of the one or more applications using the retrieved data, so that at least one of the generated tasks is completed before or at the given time, wherein the initiation of the update to the at least one of the one or more applications is based on identifying another user who completed the at least one completed task similar to the at least one generated task, based on the comparison of the task descriptions and the completion times.