System 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.
Claims8
A system for screening cookie files, wherein a cookie file includes a cookie file source, the system comprising:
- (a) a server that maintains a list of untrusted cookie file sources which are downloadable upon request;
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- (b) a client machine configured to:
- (i) transmit a request to the server for the list of untrusted cookie file sources,
- (ii) receive the list of untrusted cookie file sources downloaded from the server,
- (iii) use 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, and
- (iv) perform at least one of:
- (A) removing stored cookie files received at the client machine from cookie file sources on the downloaded list by (I) comparing the cookie file source of stored cookie files to the cookie file sources on the downloaded list, and (II) removing any stored cookie files that have matching cookie file sources, and
- (B) preventing cookie files received at the client machine from cookie file sources on the downloaded list from being stored in the client machine by (I) comparing the cookie file source of received cookie files to the cookie file sources on the downloaded list and, (II) preventing storage of any received cookie files that have matching cookie file sources.
A system for screening cookie files, wherein a cookie file includes a cookie file source, the system comprising:
- (a) a server that maintains a software application that includes a list of untrusted cookie file sources;
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- (b) a client machine configured to:
- (i) transmit a request to the server to download the software application that includes the list of untrusted cookie file sources,
- (ii) receive the downloaded software application that includes the list of untrusted cookie file sources from the server;
- (iii) use 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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- (iv) perform at least one of:
- (A) removing stored cookie files received at the client machine from cookie file sources on the downloaded list by (I) comparing the cookie file source of stored cookie files to the cookie file sources on the downloaded list, and (II) removing any stored cookie files that have matching cookie file sources, and
- (B) preventing cookie files received at the client machine from cookie file sources on the downloaded list from being stored in the client machine by (I) comparing the cookie file source of received cookie files to the cookie file sources on the downloaded list and, (II) preventing storage of any received cookie files that have matching cookie file sources.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.