Patent ID: 6499042
Filing Date: 2002-12-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of electronically filling in an online form with data associated with a user, the method comprising:transmitting from a client machine to a form-filling server a location identifier of a form-originating server and a form location corresponding to the online form on the form-originating server and a user identifier; decoding at the form-filling server the location identifier and the form location thereby enabling the form-filling server to open a connection between the form-filling server and form-originating server; requesting the form-originating server to provide the form-filling server with the online form so that the form-filling server has a similar view of the online form as the client machine does; parsing the online form on the form-filling server thereby identifying fields in the online form to be filled in; inserting data associated with the user into the fields in the online form on the form-filling server using the user identifier; and transmitting the online form with the inserted data associated with the user from the form-filling server to the client machine.