Method and system for managing cookies according to a privacy policy
CA 2490255 A1 · Owner: Hjelm, Johan · Inventors: Lindskog, Helena; Thoernqvist, Peter; Nilsson, Mikael
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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The present invention involves a user agent (100) requesting a cookieassociated resource over Internet from a content provider (200) on behalf of a user. In response thereto, the content provider (200) transmits a privacy policy file, describing the content provider~s policy regarding usage of cookies and privacy data in connection with the resource to the user agent , (100). The agent (100) then generates a cookie receipt specifying whether the user accepts the policy and, thus, accepts that the content provider sets a cookie on the user equipment (300). The receipt is transmitted to the content provider (200), e.g. in the HTTP header of a get resource message. In case of a positive …
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- Filed June 19, 2003. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 19, 2023.
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