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Sharing the personal information of a network user with the resources accessed by that network user

  • US 6,944,669 B1
  • Filed: 10/23/2000
  • Issued: 09/13/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer-implemented method for sharing a user'"'"'s personal information with a merchant server so as to facilitate an e-commerce transaction in a networked computing environment, the method comprising:

  • collecting personal information from a user of a computer network;

    storing the user'"'"'s personal information in a server;

    associating, at the server, a session identifier with the user'"'"'s personal information;

    receiving, at the server, a request from a merchant server for at least a portion of the user'"'"'s personal information, wherein the request includes a session identifier;

    determining, at the server, that the received session identifier corresponds to the session identifier associated with the user'"'"'s personal information; and

    sending, from the server, at least a portion of the user'"'"'s personal information to the merchant server when the received session identifier corresponds to the session identifier associated with the personal information.

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