Patent ID: 8176185
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating with a remote site on a network, comprising: establishing a plurality of user personas respectively associated with a plurality of remote sites on the network, wherein the user personas contain one or more attributes including usernames and passwords which are used in accessing the remote sites, and selected remote sites are associated with the user personas by respective universal resource locators (URLs) stored with the user personas, the user personas including at least a first user persona having a first stored URL which is a hypertext protocol address and having attributes which further indicate whether Java programming is enabled for the hypertext protocol address and whether cookies are enabled for the hypertext protocol address, a second user persona having a second stored URL which is a file transfer protocol address, a third user persona having a third stored URL which is an email address, and a fourth user persona for default use in accessing any remote site having no other corresponding user persona; and after said establishing, selecting a specific remote site to access, the specific remote site having a particular URL; after said selecting the specific remote site to access, selecting a specific user persona by matching the particular URL of the specific remote site to a URL stored with a specific one of the user personas associated with the specific remote site; and in response to said matching, automatically accessing the specific remote site using the one or more attributes in the specific user persona.