US 2006/0136524 A1 · Method and device for backing up cookies

Abstract

The present invention relates to summarizing cross-network user behavioral data and further relates to restoring damaged data structures, either data structures summarizing cross-network user behavioral data or data structures remotely identifying to logic running on a user computer. The summarizing cross-network user behavioral data may particularly include publishing the data to one or more data structures that become accessible to a server hosting an authorized domain when a user accesses the authorized domain. The restoring of damaged data structures may particularly include automatically detecting deletion of or damaged to data structures and restoring the damaged data structures.

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Dependent claims

A method of backing up and recreating cookies on a user's computer, including:

providing logic to be installed on the user's computer, the logic
having access to a storage area for cookies,
having access to persistent memory distinct from the cookies storage area, and
operating without requiring the user to specifically invoke the logic;
remotely identifying to the logic one or more favored cookies to be backed up;
the logic automatically backing up the favored cookies to the distinct persistent memory;
the logic automatically detecting that at least one particular favored cookie has been deleted or damaged;
and
the logic automatically restoring at least part of the particular favored cookie to the cookies storage area using data from the distinct persistent memory.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and device for backing up cookies

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Method and device for backing up cookies

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Abstract

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