Personalized account migration system and method

摘要

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.

主权项

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 service provider according to a first organizational information protocol of the first service provider;normalize the retrieved personalized information into a standard format;convert the normalized personalized information to conform to a second organizational information protocol of the second service provider; andexport the converted personalized information to the second service provider;wherein the personalized services include at least one of: electronic mail services and social networking services.