Account portability for computing
AssigneeSanDisk IL Ltd.
InventorsShimon Shmueli, Alex Lang, Jean Billman
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a portable device containing software adapted to execute on and instruct a host computing device. When executing the software, the host computing device may recognize financial account fields in a web page during a browsing session and automatically fill these fields with financial account information stored on the portable device to facilitate a web-based transaction. The portable device may contain information relating to multiple financial accounts.
Claims25
A portable device comprising:
- a) a body;
- b) memory within the body containing software and financial account information;
- c) an interface associated with the memory and adapted to facilitate interaction with the host computing device during a computing session;
- d) the software adapted to execute on the host computing device to instruct the host computing device to:
- i) recognize financial account fields in a web page during a browsing session;
- ii) fill in the financial account fields in the web page with the financial account information from the portable device to facilitate a web-based transaction;
- iii) automatically execute on the host computing device in association with the computing session;
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- iv) in association with termination of the computing session, instruct the host computing device to remove records pertaining to the computing session from the host computing device to enhance privacy associated with the computing session.
A computer readable medium including software to reside on a portable device capable of interacting with a plurality of host computing devices, the software comprising instructions for the host computing device to:
- execute on the host computing device during a computing session;
- recognize financial account fields in a web page during a browsing session;
- and
- fill in the financial account fields in the web page with financial account information stored on the portable device to facilitate a web-based transaction,
- said software further adapted to execute automatically on the host computing device in association with the computing session, and
- in association with termination of the computing session, instruct the host computing device to remove records pertaining to the computing session from the host computing device to enhance privacy associated with the computing session.
A method for facilitating a web-based transaction using a portable device capable of interacting with a plurality of host computing devices, the method comprising:
- executing software resident on the portable device on a host computing device in association with a computing session, the software adapted to instruct the host computing device:
- recognize financial account fields in a web page during a browsing session;
- fill in the financial account fields in the web page with financial account information stored on the portable device to facilitate a web-based transaction, wherein the software is further adapted to execute automatically on the host computing device in association with the computing session;
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- remove records pertaining to the computing session from the host computing device to enhance privacy associated with the computing session in association with termination of the computing session.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.