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US 2014/0351405 A1Published application
First party cookie system and method
AssigneeNomi Technologies, Inc.
InventorEric Brown
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Abstract
A first party cookie system and method are provided, The system and method allow a third party to be able to drop a cookie on a computer in a privacy-compliant fashion thereby increasing the acceptance rate of cookies on computing devices.
Claims14
A system, comprising:
- a computer-based first party cookie system;
- one or more computing devices, wherein each computing device is capable of storing a cookie that is used to track navigation of the computing device to one or more properties and has a browser executed on the computing device that is capable of navigating the computing device to the one or more properties;
- each of the one or more properties having a web server and a domain name server, wherein the domain name server redirects the browser to the computer-based first party cookie system;
- and
- the computer-based first party cookie system further comprising a cookie management component that drops a cookie onto the computing device as a first party when the browser is redirected to the computer-based first party cookie system and redirects the browser to the web server of the property.
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A method for dropping first party cookies by a third party, the method comprising:
- performing, in response to a request from a browser of a computing device, a domain name lookup by a domain name server of the property;
- redirecting, by the property, the browser to a first party cookie system;
- dropping, by the first party cookie system, a first party cookie onto the computing device;
- and
- redirecting, by the first party cookie system, the browser to a web server of the property.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.