公开(公告)号：US06237033B1

公开(公告)日：2001-05-22

申请号：US09231358

申请日：1999-01-13

申请人： Terrence M. Doeberl ,  Ronald P. Sansone ,  Suti Prakash ,  Paul W Porter ,  Marcy F. Macdonald ,  Judith A. Martin ,  Ronald Reichman

发明人： Terrence M. Doeberl ,  Ronald P. Sansone ,  Suti Prakash ,  Paul W Porter ,  Marcy F. Macdonald ,  Judith A. Martin ,  Ronald Reichman

IPC分类号： G06F1300

CPC分类号： G06F17/30899 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/22 ,  H04L67/306 ,  H04L69/22 ,  H04L69/329

摘要： A system for enabling a user of a computer attached to a computer network, and accessing sites on the network, to manage user-characterizing protocol headers on the user's computer. A particular application of the present invention is to manage so-called Internet cookies on a computer attached to the Internet and using a browser to access websites through the World Wide Web. Such cookies have a type and a value. The managing includes displaying to a user an interpretation of cookies that have been set on the user's computer; the interpretation is made by an interpreter referring to a local cookie dictionary, on the user's computer, having entries corresponding to different types of cookies. In various alternative embodiments, the managing also includes changing the values set by the websites, and fabricating cookies of types not necessarily used by a website in order to express to the website preferences a user wants the website to know. In some embodiments, the system also includes a means by which the fabricated cookies are made knowable to websites on the Internet, namely a universal cookie dictionary; and a site-specific cookie dictionary maintained by a third party so as to contain updated entries for interpreting cookies used by websites on the Internet. In one aspect of the invention, a user can periodically update the local cookie, using a local cookie dictionary, to include changes to the site-specific and universal cookie dictionaries.

摘要翻译： 一种用于使连接到计算机网络的计算机的用户能够访问网络上的站点的系统来管理用户计算机上的用户表征协议头部。 本发明的具体应用是在连接到因特网的计算机上管理所谓的因特网cookie，并使用浏览器通过万维网访问网站。 这样的cookie有一个类型和一个值。 管理包括向用户显示已经在用户计算机上设置的Cookie的解释; 解释是由解释器引用本地cookie字典，在用户的计算机上，具有对应于不同类型的cookie的条目。 在各种替代实施例中，管理还包括改变网站设置的值，以及制作网站不一定使用的类型的cookie，以便表达用户希望网站知道的网站偏好。 在一些实施例中，该系统还包括一种装置，通过该装置将制造的饼干知道为因特网上的网站，即通用饼干字典; 以及由第三方维护的特定于站点的Cookie字典，以便包含用于解释因特网上的网站使用的cookie的更新条目。 在本发明的一个方面，用户可以使用本地cookie字典来周期性地更新本地cookie，以包括对站点特定的和通用的cookie字典的改变。