Patent ID: 9111292
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A subscriber loyalty appliance, comprising: a utility program installed on and enabled to execute on a user computer, and restricted by its instructions for use by a particular licensee and an identifiable user of a personal electronics device, and providing a service for drawing said identifiable user into frequent interaction; a dashboard comprising a graphical user interface (GUI) with display screen means for presenting two visual fields with a first for a control field configured to control the utility program and a second for a private browser for said identifiable user; a private browser visually disposed in the dashboard and including a computer process configured to automatically fetch its display contents from a network server according to a user identifier associated with said particular licensee of the utility program; wherein, a frequent interaction by said identifiable user with the utility program is depended upon to increase user attention to said display contents of the private browser, and thereby promote subscriber loyalty by said identifiable user; a personal dashboard implemented as an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for presentation on a user display in a window having a visual split into a first part and a second part; a password manager for providing one view of a plurality of password-protected accounts in said first part of the personal dashboard, for managing security services from a single place, for accessing password-protected accounts with one click, for arranging secure storage of credit card accounts, and for delivering downloads and installation of security options; a unique customer identifier useful as an index into a private database of sensitive customer information; a simple browser visually disposed in said second part of the personal dashboard and for automatic forwarding of the unique customer identifier over a network to a business partner server; and means for the simple browser to only display webpages returned as hypertext markup language (html) or a uniform resource locator (URL) by the business partner server.