Patent ID: 8196808
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method performed by a service provider for preserving historical information for later viewing, said method comprising steps of: (a) maintaining a website which may be accessed by users wishing to establish an account at which information is collected and stored in digital format that is uploaded by an account-holder; (b) establishing an account corresponding to said account holder; (c) receiving selected information uploaded by said account-holder in digital format so as to vary contents of said account; (d) at the occurrence of a predetermined event, writing said selected information into a nonvolatile data storage device; and (e) incorporating said said nonvolatile data storage device into an unrelated object from which at least some of said selected information stored thereon can be locally viewed using a separate portable electronic device which provides operating power to the nonvolatile data storage device.