Amazon Subsidiary Alexa Patents Resubmitting Form

theodp writes "Alexa Internet, a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, received a patent today for their Software system and methods for resubmitting form data to related web sites. The patented process captures form data--including usernames, passwords and credit card numbers--submitted by a user to one site and resubmits it to other related web sites with or without first prompting the user. When searching a merchant's web site, related web sites may be those of merchants carrying the same or similar products. The patent also covers taking a query submitted to one Internet search engine (e.g., AltaVista) and resubmitting it to alternate search engines (e.g., Infoseek)."

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Great situation for this ailing economy

[Goranknops]

Everyone seems in an uproar about this latest Amazon patent. Why? Because they don't realize what this could mean.

All unemployed/downsized programmers should go work at Amazon creating new patents. Think of what trivial variations you could describe! A patent for the submission of aggregate data from two forms, or one for the process of submitting form data to two websites and sticking the results in frames!

There's money to be made in those patent hills, and you don't even need to invent anything to do it!

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[mufasio]

I would like to take this time to announce my newest patent on any software program that outputs the words "Hello World" or any variation including but now limited to the words "hello" and "world". If you see a violation of this patent, please contact me at patent_nazi@amaz0n.com