Patent ID: 8700788
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for enabling connection, through a single user action, and secure automatic login to a destination website on the Internet via an affiliate web server associated with the destination website, comprising the steps of: configuring a user PC to include a browser and a user data folder that is unrestricted to the user of the user PC for storing therein a predetermined icon corresponding to the destination website, user login credential information, and a URL for the destination website; producing an encrypted token encrypting the user login credential information and storing the encrypted token in the user data folder; storing the predetermined icon, user login credential information, and the URL for the destination website in the user data folder; displaying the predetermined icon on the user PC; associating launching the browser with executing a single user action on the predetermined icon; and thereafter executing the single user action on the predetermined icon displayed on the user PC; and establishing a secure connection to the destination website using the encrypted token; wherein the secure automatic login is accomplished without the use of cookies or a file manager program, or without storing the user login credential information external to the user PC.