System and method for network administration and local administration of privacy protection criteria
AssigneeAscentive LLC
InventorsAdam R. SCHRAN, Robert E. DARLINGTON
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Abstract
Cookie files are screened in a client machine, wherein a cookie file includes a cookie file source. A request from a subscriber is received at a server to send a list of untrusted cookie file sources to the client machine. The list of untrusted cookie file sources is downloaded from the server to the client machine. The downloaded list of untrusted cookie file sources is used to detect cookie files received at the client machine from cookie file sources on the downloaded list by comparing the cookie file source of any received cookie file to the untrusted cookie file sources on the downloaded list.
Claims1
A method of screening cookie files in a client machine, wherein a cookie file includes a cookie file source, the method comprising:
- (a) receiving, at a server, a request from a subscriber to send a list of untrusted cookie file sources to the client machine;
- (b) downloading the list of untrusted cookie file sources from the server to the client machine;
- (c) using the downloaded list of untrusted cookie file sources to detect cookie files received at the client machine from cookie file sources on the downloaded list by comparing the cookie file source of any received cookie file to the untrusted cookie file sources on the downloaded list;
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- (d) maintaining a watch list of untrusted cookie file sources at the server, wherein the downloaded list of untrusted cookie file sources is obtained from the watch list.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.