# US 7,412,434 B1 · World wide web registration information processing system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,412,434 B1 - Document ID: US7412434B1 - Status: Granted - Kind: B1 - Application number: 11/032,750 - Filed: 2005-01-10 - Granted: 2008-08-12 - Earliest claimed: 1995-12-11 - Assignees: Registrar Systems LLC - Inventors: John R. Klug; Thad D. Peterson - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7412434B1 ## CPC - G06F 21/41: where a single sign-on provides access to a plurality of computers - G06F 16/9535: Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation - G06F 16/957: Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation - G06F 16/958: Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking - G06F 21/6272: {by registering files or documents with a third party} - H04L 67/02: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] - H04L 67/306: User profiles - H04L 67/53: using third party service providers - H04L 67/535: {Tracking the activity of the user (network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34)} - H04L 69/329: in the application layer [OSI layer 7] - Y10S 707/922: Communications - Y10S 707/959: Network - Y10S 707/99931: Database or file accessing - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - Y10S: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS ## Abstract A World Wide Web registration processing system is disclosed for assisting World Wide Web users in registering at World Wide Web web sites. For each such user, the registration processing system includes a long term repository for the user's web site registration information so that this information can be automatically transferred to a plurality of web sites to which the user may at time to time request to be registered. Further, the registration processing system provides the user with the capability to have a common user identification that may be used for accessing services at a plurality of web sites. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A computer readable medium containing a data structure for storing user registration information accessible by a registration web site, comprising: at least one first data field for storing user registration information; at least one second data field for storing a user identifier; and at least one third data field for storing a user password; wherein the contents of the first, second and third data fields are provided by the registration web site to a third party web site in order to authenticate a user input directing the third party web site to perform a given action; and wherein the data structure is configured to facilitate the communication of the user registration information to the third party web site upon the third party web site communicating to the registration web site the user identifier and user password obtained from a user, and wherein the third party web site utilizes the received registration information to support the given action. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the given action further comprises a request to purchase and have physically delivered to a shipping address a good or service via the third party web site. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the given action further comprises a request to access a web page accessed via the third party web site. ### Claim 4 A computer system for use in registering a user with one or more web sites comprising: a network interface configured for use in establishing a network connection with a user client node; and a network server configured for executing a registrar application program, wherein the registrar application program includes instructions for configuring the server to obtain user registration information from the user, associate a user identifier and user password with the user registration information, and provide the obtained user registration information to at least one third party web site upon the third party web site obtaining from the user the user identifier and the user password, and providing the obtained user identifier and user password to the registrar application program, wherein the user identifier and user password are utilized by the registrar application program to authenticate a request from the third party web site for the user registration information. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The computer system of claim 4 wherein the registrar application program includes instructions for configuring the network server to save the user registration information in a database. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The computer system of claim 4 wherein the registrar application program includes instructions for configuring the network server to communicate, upon user permission, the saved user registration information to the at least one third party web site. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The computer system of claim 6 wherein the user permission is established by the at least one third party web site communicating to the network server a user identifier and password associated with the user registration information. ### Claim 8 (depends on 4) The computer system of claim 4 wherein the registrar application program includes instructions for configuring the network server to save the user registration information in a database local to the user client node. ### Claim 9 (depends on 4) The computer system of claim 4 wherein the registrar application program includes instructions for configuring the network server to save the user registration information in a database accessible to the network server. ### Claim 10 (depends on 4) The computer system of claim 4 wherein the registrar application program includes instructions instructing the network server to provide a copy of the registrar application program to the user client node; whereupon receipt of the registrar application program, the user client node executes the instructions provided in the registrar application program to obtain the user registration information. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The computer system of claim 10 wherein the registrar application program further includes instructions instructing the user client node to save the user registration information in a database. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The computer system of claim 11 wherein the database is accessible to the network server. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The computer system of claim 11 wherein the registrar application program further includes instructions instructing the user client node to communicate the user registration information to the at least one third party web site. ### Claim 14 A method for facilitating the communication of information used to facilitate an on-line transaction by identifying a user to a node associated with an on-line merchant, comprising: receiving, at a node having access to the information, from a node associated with an on-line merchant, a request for the information; wherein the request includes a user identifier and password provided by a user to the node associated with an on-line merchant; and communicating the information to the node associated with the on-line merchant, wherein the information includes at least basic, user registration information; wherein the user identifier and user password are utilized by the node having access to the information to authenticate a request from the node associated with an on-line merchant for the information. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The method of claim 14, wherein the information includes a shipping address. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The method of claim 14, wherein the a request is communicated directly from the node associated with an on-line merchant to the node having access to the information. ### Claim 17 (depends on 14) The method of claim 14, wherein the information includes information useful in monitoring web site usage. ### Claim 18 A method for identifying a user to an on-line merchant, comprising: communicating, from a first networked node associated with an on-line merchant to a second networked node associated with an on-line registration database containing user demographic information, a request for the user demographic information which includes a user identifier and a password, wherein the user identifier and password have been previously provided to the first networked node by a user; and in response to the request, receiving at the first networked node user demographic information communicated from the second networked node; wherein the second networked node can access at least one database storing user demographic information and wherein at least one of the first and second networked nodes are connected to the Internet; wherein the user identifier and user password are utilized by the second networked node to authenticate a request from the first networked node for the user registration information. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18 wherein the user demographic information includes a shipping address. ### Claim 20 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18, wherein the user demographic information saved by the second networked node is user accessible. ### Claim 21 A method for communicating user information to one or more computers connected to the Internet, comprising: receiving, at a server computer, identifying information from a user; associating, at the server computer, at least one user identifier and password with the information; upon a communication of the at least one user identifier from a user computer, associated with a user, to a merchant computer, associated with an on-line merchant, receiving at the server computer, from the merchant computer, a request for the information, wherein the request includes the user identifier provided by the user computer; and upon validation, by the server computer, of the user identifier received from the merchant computer, communicating the information from the server computer to the merchant computer; wherein user information received by the merchant computer facilitates an on-line transaction between the user and the on-line merchant. ### Claim 22 (depends on 21) The method of claim 21, wherein the information includes delivery information. ### Claim 23 (depends on 21) The method of claim 21, wherein the user identifier comprises an e-mail address associated with the user. ### Claim 24 (depends on 23) The method of claim 23, wherein the user identifier further comprises a user password. ### Claim 25 A method for registering on-line a first party with a third party by obtaining registration information associated with the first party from a data store associated with a second party, wherein at least a portion of the registration information is provided, at least in part, by the first party to the second party and relates to one or more users; comprising: receiving at the third party, from the first party, a user identifier and a password, wherein the user identifier and password are associated with registration information for the first party stored in the data store; requesting by the third party, from the second party, the registration information wherein the request includes the user identifier and the password; and upon validation of the user identifier and password by the second party, receiving at the third party, from the second party, the registration information; wherein each of the parties are associated with a node having an Internet address. ### Claim 26 (depends on 25) The method of claim 25, wherein the registration information received by the third party comprises a street address associated with the first party. ### Claim 27 (depends on 26) The method of claim 26, wherein the registration information further comprises demographic information useful in monitoring usage of at least one web site.