System and method for automatically filling out forms

A method of helping consumers to quickly fill out forms provided by merchants, said method comprising the following steps;

• providing a means for establishing an Online Profile (4);
• said Online Profile including a forms data storage (9);
• said forms data storage being an online database, and said forms data storage further including one or more tiers (5);
• wherein, a consumer may use a consumer device (1) to authenticate the identity of said consumer and establish said Online Profile (4);
• and wherein a consumer may use a consumer device in electronic communication with said Online Profile (4) to input forms data pertaining to said consumer into said forms data storage (9);
• wherein said forms data will be automatically sorted into one or more tiers (5) within said forms data storage (9) according to pre-defined sorting criteria;
• said method further comprising providing a request service and a notification service in electronic communication with said request service;
• where said request service and said notification service can both communicate over the internet;
• and said method further comprising providing means by which a merchant may electronically send a request for some or all of said consumer's forms data, that is necessary to complete a specific form, to said request service;
• and said method further comprising allowing a merchant to access said consumer's forms data and acquire needed forms data belonging to said consumer, wherein said needed forms data is needed to complete a specific form,
• said method further comprising providing a software component which is capable of electronically searching said tiers;
• said method further comprising providing a means by which said software component which is capable of electronically searching said tiers is capable of recognizing forms data fields that are responsive to the forms data values (15) within the form desired by said merchant;
• said method further comprising that said merchant may acquire said needed forms data via the following steps;
• said merchant sends a request to said request service;
• said request containing an identification of either the form that said merchant desires said consumer to complete, or the forms data values (15) needed to complete the form that said merchant desires said consumer to complete;
• and said request starting a transaction;
• wherein, when said request service receives said request from said merchant;
• said notification service electronically sends a notification to a consumer device (1) belonging to said consumer;
• said notification requesting said consumer's permission for the forms data within certain specific tiers of said consumer's Online Profile to be released to said merchant;
• said method further comprising allowing said consumer to respond to said notification by electronically sending an authorization from said consumer device (1), giving permission for the forms data within said specific tiers to be released to said merchant;
• said method further comprising that if said authorization is sent by said consumer, an electronic search of said specific tiers in said Online Profile (4) belonging to said consumer is performed by the software component which is capable of electronically searching said tiers;
• and said method further comprising that the forms data fields within said specific tiers that are responsive to the forms data values (15) in the form requested by said merchant are electronically sent to said merchant;
• thus ending the transaction.