Patent ID: 8275652
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for establishing a person as a user in a system associated with an employer-offered benefit comprising: generating, by a first computing device, a first account for an employee, the first account being associated with an employer-offered benefit; receiving, at the first computing device from a second computing device associated with the employee, first one or more credentials to authenticate the employee, the first one or more credentials being associated with the employee and the first account; receiving, at the first computing device from the second computing device, identity information associated with a person to be established as a user in the system and a relationship between the employee and the person to be established, wherein the person to be established is eligible to receive services under the employer-offered benefit; generating, by the first computing device, a second account for the person to be established, the second account including the identity information and the relationship, being associated with the services under the employer-offered benefit, being in the name of the person to be established, and being independent from the first account; initiating, by the first computing device, transmission of a message including second one or more credentials for activating the second account to the person to be established, the transmission using a communication channel that is specific to the person to be established; receiving, by the first computing device after the second account is activated, service-specific dependent information from a third computing device associated with the person to be established; and updating, by the first computing device, information associated with the employer-offered benefit services available to the second account using the service-specific dependent information received from the third computing device.