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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Re:What about sites already using such patents?

[moncyb]

Since they are using this patent for years now, how can a patent holder who has registered it as patent at a later date, start charging them?

If they're using prior art, it should be a perfect defense, but through stupidity of courts and the patent office, they may lose anyway...