Patent ID: 8260806
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for storing, managing, and distributing consumer information via a distributed electronic network, by causing a computing device to perform operations comprising: determining one or more consumer information elements for fields of a web page, the one or more consumer information elements associated with an information account and in a data storage accessible via the distributed electronic network, the information account comprising a plurality of consumer information elements associated with a consumer and being subject to the consumer's control and management; causing a browser to display a web page file that has been retrieved from a vendor server, the web page file including an instruction that causes the browser to request transmission of a client-side application having at least a temporary portion; executing at a network device an application configured to manage a request/response process for the network device; transmitting over the distributed electronic network from the network device a request for the determined one or more consumer information elements the request including consumer authentication information and being made by the network device responsive to an input command supplied by the consumer; receiving at the network device the one or more consumer information elements filtered from the information account; and autopopulating the filtered one or more consumer information elements into corresponding fields.