Personalized account migration system and method

US8990345B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8990345-B2
Application numberUS-201414171527-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateFeb 3, 2014
Priority dateNov 27, 2000
Publication dateMar 24, 2015
Grant dateMar 24, 2015

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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.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method of migrating personalized services between service providers, the method comprising: providing a migration selection interface to a user for selection of a first service provider and a second service provider; receiving from the user a request to migrate personalized services from the first service provider to the second service provider; and operating one or more processors to: retrieve personalized information of the user from the first servi…

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What does patent US8990345B2 cover?
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…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Linkedin Corp
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification G06Q10/107. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Mar 24 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).