Method and system for activating and capturing screen displays associated with predetermined user interface events
View Patent ↗Techniques to facilitate a system to capture, process, and archive a series of user interactive events and subsequently retrieve the stored user interactive events are disclosed. The captured information is indexed and stored for future access either on a terminal device or an accessible remote server device.
1. A method for tracking predetermined activities for a terminal display, the method comprising:
providing a series of displays on the terminal display, at least some of the displays requiring interactions from a user and being referred to as interactive displays;
an embedded module automatically triggered to capture an entire image of one of the interactive displays being displayed on the terminal
display only after the one of the interactive displays has been altered with at least one interaction from the user in accordance with a predetermined requirement, wherein the entire image is in pixel format and includes source information to record when and whom the one of the interactive displays has been interacted with;
continuing to successively display a next one of the interactive displays till a last one of the interactive displays, wherein, if any of the interactive displays between the next one and the last one is captured, each of the captured images includes at least one interaction from the user in accordance with a predetermined requirement; and
sending at least some of the captured images to another computing device where the another computing device is configured to generate an evidence that the captured image has not been modified.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating one or more attributes to be associated with the captured image, wherein the source information is included in the one or more attributes.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more attributes includes an alphanumeric character string.
4. The method as recited in claim 3 , wherein the alphanumeric character string is encrypted to cause any changes to any part of the captured image to be extremely difficult.
5. The method as recited in claim 3 , wherein the alphanumeric character string pertains to a time at which any of the interactive displays was altered.
6. The method as recited in claim 2 , wherein the one or more attributes include one or more of (1) a time stamp, (2) an electronic signature, (3) terminal device location information, (4) information relating to the terminal display, (5) user information, (6) relative sequence index, or (7) system provided information.
7. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the terminal display is a touch screen and the interaction includes one or more of (i) an entry by the user, or (ii) a click by the user.
8. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the sending of at least some of the captured image to the server includes compressing the captured displays into a file according to a compression scheme.
9. A terminal device for tracking predetermined activities therewith, the terminal device comprising:
a display screen;
a memory space provided with pixelated image data, the data configured to generate a series of displays for the display screen, at least some of the displays requiring interactions from a user and being referred to as interactive displays; and
an embedded module automatically triggered to capture a portion of the data in the memory space of the display screen storing one of the interactive displays after the one of the interactive displays has been altered with at least one interaction from the user in accordance with a predetermined requirement, wherein the one of the interactive displays includes an identity of the user and the time of the interaction, and the embedded module is configured to save the portion of the data and forward a file including the portion of the data to a server that is configurable to verify that there is no modification to any part of the one of the interactive displays.
10. The terminal device of claim 9 , wherein the file includes other captured data related to some of the interactive displays.
11. The terminal device of claim 10 , wherein the embedded module includes generating one or more attributes to be associated with the portion of the data.
12. The terminal device of claim 11 , wherein the one or more attributes includes an alphanumeric character string.
13. The terminal device of claim 12 , wherein the alphanumeric character string is encrypted.
14. The terminal device of claim 12 , wherein the alphanumeric character string pertains to a time at which any of the interactive displays was altered.
15. The terminal device of claim 12 , wherein the one or more attributes include one or more of (1) a time stamp, (2) an electronic signature, (3) terminal device location information, (4) information relating to the terminal display, (5) user information, (6) relative sequence index, or (7) system provided information.
16. The terminal device of claim 9 , wherein the interaction includes one or more of (i) an entry by the user, (ii) a click by the user and (iii) a word or phrase.
17. The terminal device of claim 9 , wherein the embedded module includes compressing the portion of the data according to a compression scheme.
18. The terminal device of claim 9 , wherein the file pertains to image pixels and is subjects to be analyzed by an OCR engine at the server.