Patent ID: 6496855
Filing Date: 2002-12-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An arrangement comprising at least one computer network connected to at least one service computer, the terminal being associated with at least one user, a method for managing the registration of the user with the at least one service computer, the method comprising the steps of:gathering registration data for the at least one service computer; storing the registration data in at least one data structure on at least one registration agent computer connected to the computer network; gathering personal data for the user; storing at least part of the personal data in at least one data structure on at least one registration agent computer connected to the computer network; in response to a request from the user to a registration agent computer connected to the computer network to register the user with the at least one service computer, submitting an application to register the user with the at least one service computer by transmitting registration information from at least one registration agent computer to the service computer, the registration information being compiled from data obtained by accessing the user's personal data stored in the associated data structure and by accessing registration data for the service computer stored in the associated data structure; and providing a unique proxy address for the user in a registration application so that communications addressed to the user using the unique address are received by the at least one registration agent computer or registration agent server and are subsequently forwarded to the user, including a header indicating which service computer a communication originated from.