Abstract: In a first embodiment, a central database accessible by registered members, including merchants, will contain all of an individual's information while a smart card will store a unique id, known as an avatar, that may be utilized to access the information on the server. The central database is accessed through an authentication service to ensure smartcard validity. The unique identity information is retrieved by smartcard readers issued to registered members. In another embodiment, all the information concerning the individual is contained within the smart card itself. In a further embodiment, data on the smartcard and the central database is arranged in an access list with the more sensitive personal information being made available only to the smartcard readers having the highest level of access. At least two avatars, horizontal and vertical, are utilized with the horizontal avatar providing id that is changeable and the vertical avatar providing non-changeable id.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and program for magnifying displayed content downloaded from a server over a network. Information is received indicating selection of a region of the displayed content to magnify. A determination is made of at least one region of the selected region including image content. The server maintains a high resolution file version and a low resolution file version of the image content. A determination is then made as to whether the selected image content from the displayed image file is the low resolution file version. If so, a command is generated to retrieve from the server specific byte locations from the high resolution file version including the image content in the selected region. The specified bytes are less than all the image data bytes in the high resolution version of the file if the image content in the selected region comprises less than all of the image content maintained in the high resolution version of the file.