Populating User Data

• US 20130090135A1
• Filed: 12/15/2011
• Published: 04/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Skype S.Ã R.L. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Roos, Martin
• Granted Patent: US 9,451,408 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

A computer system for receiving user data comprising a user access component having a display and a processor arranged to execute a data receiving application, wherein the data receiving application provides on the display at least one address field; and a geographical location device in communication with a location network and arranged to identify a geographical location of the device using information from the location network, the geographical location device located at a user address, the geographical location device operable to provide location data from which address data of the user address is derived and supplied to the data receiving application to automatically populate the address field on the display.

Claims

1. A computer system for receiving user data comprising:

a user access component having a display and a processor arranged to execute a data receiving application, wherein the data receiving application provides on the display at least one address field; and

a geographical location device in communication with a location network and arranged to identify a geographical location of the device using information from the location network, the geographical location device located at a user address, the geographical location device operable to provide location data from which address data of the user address is derived and supplied to the data receiving application to automatically populate the address field on the display.

2. A computer system according to claim 1, which comprises a unitary mobile terminal.

3. A computer system according to claim 1, wherein the geographic location device comprises a geographical positioning system operable to provide location data using a satellite network.

4. A computer system according to claim 1 which comprises a data connection for supplying the location data from the geographical location device to an address service which uses the location data to provide said address data for populating the address field.

5. A computer system according to claim 1, wherein the data receiving application is operable to issue a notification to the geographical location device at commencement of a data entry flow which will include a user address.

6. A computer system according to claim 1, which further includes an approximate positioning device capable of supplying address data to populate the address field until the geographical location device has supplied the geographical location.

7. A computer system according to claim 1, comprising a memory for holding said address data in association with location data from the geographical location device.

8. A method of supplying address data to a data store in a computer system, the method comprising:

executing on a processor of the computer system a data receiving application which provides an address data field on a display for a user;

notifying a geographical location device to identify a location of the computer system using information from a location network and to supply to the data store address data to the data store derived from the geographical location data; and

the data receiving application retrieving address data from the data store and automatically populating the address field with said address data.

9. A method according to claim 8, comprising:

supplying location data from the geographical location device to an address service, wherein the address service forwards address data for populating the address field based on the location data to the data receiving application.

10. A method according to claim 8, wherein the data receiving application issues a notification to the geographical location device at commencement of a data entry flow which will include user address.

11. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing thereon program codes which when executed on a processor implements the steps of:

providing an address data field on a display for a user;

notifying a geographical location device to identify a location of a geographical location device using information from a location network; and

receiving address data based on the location identified by the geographical location device and automatically populating the address field with said address data.