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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