Personalized account migration system and method

• US 8,631,159 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2010
• Issued: 01/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Isaac, Tomy K., Kasiraja, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): WANG, LIANG CHE A
• Application Number:
  US12/798,876
• Publication Number:
  US 20100268847A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,373 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/246, 707/707, 707709-710
• US Class Current: 709/246
• 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. A method for migrating personalized services, embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving from a user, via a receiver;

identities of a first provider of the personalized services and a second provider of the personalized services different from the first provider; and

a request to migrate the personalized services;

wherein, at the time of receiving the request, the user has provided personalized information to the first provider of the personalized services but not the second provider of the personalized services;

extracting, via a processor, organizational information associated with the first provider of the personalized services and organizational information associated with the second provider of the personalized services;

converting, via the processor;

the organizational information of the first provider of the personalized services to a first organizational information protocol; and

the organizational information of the second provider of the personalized services to a second organizational information protocol;

receiving, via the receiver and from the first provider of the personalized services, a plurality of personalized information according to the first organizational information protocol, wherein the plurality of personalized information comprises at least one of a wireless calling plan, telephone type, calling history, web-phone setup, and web-phone preferences; and

writing the personalized information to the second provider of the personalized services according to the second organizational information protocol.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of personalized information further comprises at least one of a contact list, personalized data, and preferences.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the personalized services comprises at least one of banking and financial services, email services, on-line calendar and address book services, web pages, bill payment services, application service providers, ISP services, wireless customization services shopping services, online trading services, and online auction services.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the banking and financial services further comprises at least one of payment of a mortgage, a loan, a balance transfer, account balances, filling out of forms, credit checks, digital signal encryption, electronic transfer formatting and location, and login and password information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the personalized services further comprises at least one of career services, professional services, and social services.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the career services further comprises at least one of employee information, salary information, payroll information, and job title information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first provider of the personalized services and the second provider of the personalized services is a wireless service provider.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said extracting comprises utilizing login and password information of the user.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the first organizational information protocol and the second organizational information protocol in a database.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising spidering at least one of the first provider of the personalized services and the second provider of the personalized services to extract the organizational information.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising scraping at least one of the first provider of the personalized services and the second provider of the personalized services to extract the organizational information.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

entering the first provider of the personalized services via a browser;

parsing the first provider of the personalized services; and

mapping the first organizational information protocol to a standard format.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the first organizational information protocol comprises information regarding a manner of organization, information entry methods, and information extraction methods of the service provider.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a request to migrate the personalized services over a weblink.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing access to the plurality of personalized information.