Patent ID: 7617233

Claim:
A method for automatically populating a plurality of input elements of a form in a web browser, comprising: providing a single cookie containing a plurality of name-value pairs, wherein, for each of the plurality of input elements of the form: determining if the input element of the form contains a shared form variable indicating that the input element is enabled for automatic populating, wherein the shared form variable includes a name attribute and a keyword indicative of a shared form variable; and automatically populating the input element of the form using a value in a corresponding one of the plurality of name-value pairs in the cookie if the name attribute of the shared form variable corresponds to one of the plurality of name-value pairs in the cookie; sharing the cookie across a plurality of application servers having a common domain name system (DNS) suffix, wherein the cookie can be applied to forms originating from any of the plurality of application servers; wherein each of the plurality of input elements containing a shared form variable includes the same keyword, and wherein the form and the cookie are received by the web browser from an application server.