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Method and system for identifying provider network locations based on user-provided codes

  • US 20020032749A1
  • Filed: 10/04/2001
  • Published: 03/14/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/25/1999
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. In a system having a plurality of end-users that remotely access a network having at least a hub site and a plurality of provider sites, a method of identifying for at least one of the end-users a location on the network of at least one of the providers, comprising:

  • receiving, at the hub site, code information corresponding to one or more codes provided by the end-user;

    in response to the code information, retrieving from a profile database associated with the hub site network address information corresponding to the location on the network of a provider that is associated with the received code information; and

    using the network address information to direct the end-user to the location on the network of the associated provider, wherein the profile database comprises a user-record corresponding to each end-user;

    each user-record comprising public information that the end-user submits to the hub site and that the end-user expects will be shared with one or more of the providers without permission of the end-user, private information that the end-user submits to the hub site and that the end-user expects will not be shared with any of the providers without permission of the end-user, and a non-externally identifying symbol associated with the user-record that identifies the end-user on the network.

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