Personalized account migration system and method

• US 20080065779A1
• Filed: 10/30/2007
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Esaya, Inc.
• Inventors: Isaac, Tomy, Kasiraja, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 7,836,197 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A method for migrating information, and a migrator for migrating information, are disclosed. The method may include extracting organizational information from at least two service providers, accessing a first at least one of the at least two service providers upon selection of a migration selection interface by the user, receiving of a first plurality of information related to the user from one of the service providers, accessing a second at least one of the at least two service providers, and writing the first plurality of information to the second at least one of the at least two service providers. The migrator includes an importer in communicative connection with at least one migrate-from service provider, a normalizer that receives a first plurality of information from the importer and converts the first plurality to a standard format, a denormalizer that receives the standard format from the normalizer and converts the standard format to a second plurality of information, and an exporter communicatively connected to a migrate-to service provider, which exporter receives the second plurality of information from the denormalizer and sends the second plurality to the migrate-to service provider.

Claims

1-81. -81. (canceled)

82. A migrator for migrating personalized services, comprising:

an importer in communicative connection with at least one migrate-from provider of services, which at least one migrate-from provider of services has been selected by a user;

a normalizer that receives a first plurality of information from said importer and converts the first plurality to a standard format;

a denormalizer that receives the standard format from said normalizer and converts the standard format to a second plurality of information; and

an exporter communicatively connected to a migrate-to provider of services, which exporter receives the second plurality of information from the denormalizer and sends the second plurality to the migrate-to provider of services;

wherein the second at least one of the at least two providers of services is accessed via a website of the second at least one of the at least two providers of services.

83. The migrator of claim 82, further comprising an extractor that extracts an organizational information protocol from at least two providers of services, wherein the first plurality is normalized in accordance with the organizational information protocol correspondent to the migrate-from provider of services, and wherein the second plurality is denormalized in accordance with the organizational information protocol correspondent to the migrate-to provider of services.

84. The migrator of claim 82, wherein said importer uses control messages to import the first plurality of information from the migrate-from provider of services.

85. The migrator of claim 82, wherein said importer is unique to each provider of services, and imports according to an organizational information protocol of the migrate-from provider of services.

86. The migrator of claim 82, wherein the standard format is xml.

87. The migrator of claim 86, wherein said normalizer includes an xml generator that generates the xml.

88. The migrator of claim 82, wherein said denormalizer parses the standard format according to a DTD used to normalize the standard format, and thereby denormalizes the information.