Method and system for auto-populating electronic forms

Abstract

An autofill system is described for auto-populating electronic forms with data stored by an on-line social networking system. When a member of an on-line social network system accesses, via a web browser, an autofill-enabled web page, the autofill system determines an identification of the member, scrapes the member's profile to obtain member's information, assembles the member's profile information as member data, and communicates the member data to the web browser together with a script for presenting an autofill button on the web page.

1 . A method comprising:
 detecting, at a server system, that a member of an on-line social networking system is accessing a web page via a web browser;   obtaining, from a profile of the member, member data; and   communicating the member data and a user interface (UI) object to the web browser, the UI object configured to populate electronic forms with data obtained from the on-line social networking system.