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US 9,866,648 B2Granted
Automatic transmission of user profile information to a web server
OwnerLaurent Bortolamiolinventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for the automatic transmission of user profile information to a web server are disclosed.
Claims20
A client computer comprising:
- a processor within the client computer;
- a first module, executed by the processor, that generates a user interface, obtains profile information from a user of the client computer through one or more prompts provided by the user interface, provides the profile information to a profile server, and receives a profile ID that uniquely identifies the user from the profile server, wherein the profile server is on a different local network than the client computer, wherein the profile information comprises information other than a user name and a user password;
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- a second module, executed by the processor, that intercepts a request from the client computer intended for a web server on a different local network than the client computer and profile server, generates a modified request comprising the profile ID and sends the modified request to the web server, wherein the modified request does not include a user name and a user password for the user.
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A profile server for interacting with a client and a web server, comprising:
- a client interface for communicating with the client, wherein the client interface is configured to send profile parameters to the client and to receive profile information from the client and to generate a profile ID associated with the profile information that uniquely identifies a user of the client and to send the profile ID to the client, wherein the profile information comprises information other than a user name and a user password;
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- a server interface for communicating with a web server, the profile server and web server located on different local networks, wherein the server interface is configured to provide the profile information to the web server in response to a request comprising the profile ID from the web server after the web server receives the profile ID from the client, wherein the web server does not receive a user name and a user password from the client, wherein the profile ID was not stored by the web server prior to receiving the profile ID from the client, and wherein the server interface does not provide the web server with a user name and a user password for the user of the client.
A method of establishing profile information for a user and automatically transferring the profile information from a profile server to a web server in response to a request to the web server from a client operated by the user, comprising:
- creating, by the profile server, a profile ID that uniquely identifies the user;
- setting custom variables, by the profile server, in response to information received from the web server;
- sending the custom variables and the profile ID, by the profile server, to a client;
- obtaining, by the profile server, profile information input by the user on the client in response to the custom variables, wherein the profile information comprises information other than a user name and a user password;
- receiving, by the web server, a request comprising the profile ID from the client, wherein the request does not include a user name and a user password, and wherein the web server and profile server are part of different local networks and are each independently accessible over the Internet, and wherein the web server had not previously stored the profile ID;
- sending, by the web server, the profile ID to the profile server;
- accessing, by the profile server, the profile information using the profile ID;
- sending, by the profile server, the profile information to the web server, wherein the profile server does not provide the web server with a user name and a user password for the user;
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- generating, by the web server, content for the client using at least part of the profile information;
- wherein the user is anonymous as to the web server.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.