Populating user data

• US 9,451,408 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2011
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Ajit
• Application Number:
  US13/327,297
• Publication Number:
  US 20130090135A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,741 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 user terminal comprising:

a display device;

a geographical location device configured to communicate with a location network;

one or more processors;

one or more computer readable storage memory;

a data receiving application embodied on the one or more computer readable storage memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors to;

determine that a transaction, implemented through the data receiving application, will require data in a postal address field for display on the display device;

issue a notification to the geographical location device to identify location data that describes a geographical location of the geographical location device using information from the location network;

receive address data that is derived from the location data;

provide the address data to populate the postal address field for display on the display device;

receive a user confirmation of the address data; and

store the confirmed address data in association with the location data from the geographical location device on the one or more computer readable storage memory of the user terminal.

2. A user terminal according to claim 1, the user terminal comprising a unitary mobile terminal.

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

4. A user terminal according to claim 1, wherein the address data is received from an address service configured to use coordinates of the location data to convert the location data to the address data.

5. A user terminal according to claim 1, wherein the data receiving application is further configured to be executed by the one or more processors to issue the notification to the geographical location device at commencement of a data entry flow which will include the postal address field.

6. A user terminal according to claim 1, which further includes a location system capable of supplying data that approximates an address to populate the postal address field.

7. A user terminal according to claim 1, wherein the geographical location device utilizes mobile cellular network location systems.

8. A user terminal according to claim 1, wherein the postal address field is associated with a billing and/or shipping address.

9. A user terminal according to claim 1, wherein the data receiving application is further configured to be executed by the one or more processors to:

receive new location data from the geographical location device;

determine that the new location data matches with the location data; and

retrieve the confirmed address data associated with the location data to populate another postal address field.

17. A user terminal according to claim 5, wherein the data entry flow is associated with a purchase.

18. A user terminal according to claim 6, wherein the data that approximates the address is replaced with the address data responsive to receipt of the address data from an address service.

10. A computer-implemented method comprising:

determining that a transaction, implemented through a web application, will require data in a postal address field for display on a display device of a user terminal;

issuing a notification to a geographical location device in communication with a location network to identify location data that describes a geographical location of the geographical location device using information from the location network;

receiving address data that is derived from the location data;

providing the address data to populate the postal address field for display on the display device;

receiving a user confirmation of the address data; and

storing the confirmed address data in association with the location data from the geographical location device on one or more computer readable storage memory of the user terminal.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the geographical location device comprises a geographical positioning system operable to provide location data using a satellite network.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the address data is received from an address service configured to use coordinates of the location data to convert the location data to the address data.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the issuing the notification to the geographical location device occurs at commencement of a data entry flow which will include the postal address field.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising receiving data that approximates an address to populate the postal address field until the address data is derived.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the postal address field is associated with a billing and/or shipping address.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving new location data from the geographical location device;

determining that the new location data matches with the location data; and

retrieving the confirmed address data associated with the location data to populate another postal address field.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 wherein the data entry flow is associated with online billing.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the geographical location device utilizes mobile cellular network location systems.