US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 7 for "Simulation of user actions in computer environment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,307, issued on July 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Simulation of user actions in computer environment" was invented by Sho Ayuba (Tokyo), Mayumi Goto (Ayase-city, Japan), Yoshio Horiuchi (Hiratsuka, Japan) and Timothy Waileong Koh (Chuo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A launch of a user application is detected and a clone instance of that user application is initiated. A trigger is detected. The trigger is within the user application and is for a simulation of a user action. The user action is executed in the clone instance in response to detecting the trigger. The results of the use...