Personalized account migration system and method

• US 7,325,067 B1
• Filed: 11/27/2000
• Issued: 01/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Esaya, Inc.
• Inventors: Kasiraja, Mark, Isaac, Tomy K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cardone; Jason
• Assistant Examiner(s): Duong; Thomas
• Application Number:
  US09/723,324
• Time in Patent Office: 2,619 Days
• Field of Search: 709/230, 709/231, 709/201, 709/202, 709/203, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/232
• 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.

Claims

1. A method for migrating information, comprising:

extracting organizational information from at least two providers of services to form at least two organizational information protocols, wherein one organizational information protocol corresponds to one of the at least two providers of services;

providing a migration selection interface to a user for selection of one of the at least two providers of services, said one of the at least two providers of services having a corresponding organizational information protocol;

accessing a first at least one of the at least two providers of services upon selection of the migration selection interface by the user;

receiving, according to the organizational information protocol correspondent to the first at least one of the at least two providers of services, of a first plurality of information related to the user, upon said accessing a first at least one of the at least two providers of services;

accessing a second at least one of the at least two providers of services upon selection of the migration selection interface by the user;

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; and

writing the first plurality of information to the second at least one of the at least two providers of services according to the organizational information protocol correspondent to the second at least one of the at least two providers of services.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least two providers of services provide services in a service provision area.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the service provision area is at least one selected from banking and financial services, email services, on line calendar and address book services, mysite.com pages, bill payment services, and application service providers.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the banking and financial services are at least one selected from the group consisting of payment of a mortgage, a loan, a balance transfer, account balances, filling out of forms, credit checks, digital signal encryption, and login and password information.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the mysite.com site is at least one selected from the group consisting of an ISP site, a wireless customization site, a shopping site, and an online trading site.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the organizational information protocol includes a format and a location for the first plurality of information.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, upon said extracting, formatting the organizational information protocol for each provider of services into an organizational information database organized by provider of services.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the organizational information protocol represents a manner of organization of the at least one provider of services, information entry methods for the at least one provider of services, and information extraction methods for the at least one provider of services.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the organizational information protocol includes keys that precede the first plurality of information on the at least one provider of services.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said extracting comprises creating an account with the at least one provider of services, and tracking of the account created.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said extracting comprises scraping the at least one provider of services.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein said extracting comprises spidering the at least one provider of services.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein said extracting comprises:

entering the at least one provider of services as a browser;

parsing the at least one provider of services;

mapping the organizational information protocol to a standard format.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the migration selection interface comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a clickable icon, a button, a tile, an authorization box, an entry of a name, an entry of a password, an entry of personal information, and an entry of credit card information.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein said accessing a first at least one provider of services comprises entering a user name and password.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein said receiving the first plurality of information further comprises normalizing of the first plurality of information into a same format as the organizational information protocol database.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein said normalizing is performed by an import coordinating service.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein said normalizing comprises sending, by the import coordinating service, of control messages, which control messages receive the first plurality of information according to the organizational information protocol.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said sending comprises sending of the control messages in a bundle.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein said normalizing further comprises receiving, by the import coordinating service, of return control messages, which return control messages include the first plurality of information according to the organizational information protocol.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the first plurality of information includes personal information data and errors that occurred during said receiving of a first plurality.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the errors include information requested by said receiving that could not be located and information requested by said receiving that was not formatted according to the organizational information protocol.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein said writing comprises denormalizing the first plurality of information into the organizational information protocol correspondent to the second at least one provider of services.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein said denormalizing comprises sending export control messages that map the first plurality of information into a proper location on the second at least one provider of services.

25. The method of claim 1, further comprising billing the second at least one provider of services for the user migrated to the second at least one provider of services.

26. The method of claim 1, further comprising billing the user for the user migrated to the second at least one provider of services.

27. The method of claim 1, further comprising billing the second at least one provider of services for the method of migrating information.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein said billing comprises billing the second at least one provider of services for a link to the method of migrating information on the second at least one provider of services.

29. A method for migrating information, comprising:

extracting organizational information from at least two providers of services to form at least two organizational information protocols, wherein one organizational information protocol corresponds to one of the at least two providers of services;

providing a migration selection interface to a user for selection of one of the at least two providers of services after forming said one of the at least two organizational information protocols;

accessing a first at least one of the at least two providers of services upon selection of the migration selection interface by the user;

receiving, according to the organizational information protocol correspondent to the first at least one of the at least two providers of services, of a first plurality of information related to the user, upon said accessing a first at least one of the at least two providers of services;

normalizing the first plurality of information into a standard format;

accessing a second at least one of the at least two providers of services upon selection of the migration selection interface by the user;

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;

denormalizing the normalized first plurality of information into a second plurality of information;

writing the second plurality of information to the second at least one of the at least two providers of services according to the organizational information protocol correspondent to the second at least one of the at least two providers of services.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein the at least two providers of services provide services in a service provision area.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the service provision area is at least one selected from banking and financial services, email services, on line calendar and address book services, mysite.com pages, bill payment services, and application providers of services.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the banking and financial services are at least one selected from the group consisting of payment of a mortgage, a loan, a balance transfer, account balances, filling out of forms, credit checks, digital signal encryption, and login and password information.

33. The method of claim 31, wherein the mysite.com site is at least one selected from the group consisting of an ISP site, a wireless customization site, a shopping site, and an online trading site.

34. The method of claim 29, wherein the organizational information protocol includes a format and a location for the first plurality of information.

35. The method of claim 29, further comprising, upon said extracting, formatting the organizational information protocol for each provider of services into an organizational information database organized by provider of services.

36. The method of claim 29, wherein the organizational information protocol represents a manner of organization of the at least one provider of services, information entry methods for the at least one provider of services, and information extraction methods for the at least one provider of services.

37. The method of claim 29, wherein the organizational information protocol includes keys that precede the first plurality of information on the at least one provider of services.

38. The method of claim 29, wherein said extracting comprises:

entering the at least one provider of services as a browser;

parsing the at least one provider of services;

mapping the organizational information protocol to a standard format.

39. The method of claim 29, wherein said accessing a first at least one provider of services comprises entering a user name and password.

40. The method of claim 29, wherein said normalizing is performed by an import coordinating service.

41. The method of claim 40, wherein said normalizing comprises sending, by the import coordinating service, of control messages, which control messages receive the first plurality of information according to the organizational information protocol.

42. The method of claim 41, wherein said sending comprises sending of the control messages in a bundle.

43. The method of claim 42, wherein said normalizing further comprises receiving, by the import coordinating service, of return control messages, which return control messages include the first plurality of information according to the organizational information protocol.

44. The method of claim 29, wherein the organizational information protocol is placed into the standard format.

45. The method of claim 44, wherein the standard format is xml.

46. The method of claim 29, wherein the first plurality of information includes personal information data and errors that occurred during said receiving of a first plurality.

47. The method of claim 46, wherein the errors include information requested by said receiving that could not be located and information requested by said receiving that was not formatted according to the organizational information protocol.

48. The method of claim 29, wherein said denormalizing comprises sending export control messages that map the second plurality of information into a proper location on the second at least one provider of services.

49. The method of claim 29, further comprising billing the second at least one provider of services for the user migrated to the second at least one provider of services.

50. The method of claim 29, further comprising billing the user for the user migrated to the second at least one provider of services.

51. The method of claim 29, further comprising billing the second at least one provider of services for the method of migrating information.

52. The method of claim 51, wherein said billing comprises billing the second at least one provider of services for a link to the method of migrating information on the second at least one provider of services.