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Providing standardized transparency for cookies and other website data using a server side description file

US8578036B1 · kind B1 · utility

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12Claims

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Assignee

Google LLC · US

Inventors

Wieland Holfelder · Planegg, DE
Dominic Battre · Munich, DE
Michael Christopher West · Munich, DE
Jochen Eisinger · Birkenfeld, DE
Bernhard Bauer · Munich, DE
Patrick Louis Maurice Nepper · Rosenheim, DE
Pamela Lori Greene · Bad Abbach, DE
Adam T. Barth · Annandale, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 25, 2012
Grant date	Nov 5, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 25, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/951
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and a computer-implemented method for processing a cookie description file are provided. A browser provides the cookie description file that includes meta-information associated with cookies that are associated with a domain. The meta-information includes cookie information specific to each cookie. The cookie description file is parsed and the meta-information associated with each cookie is extracted. The parsed meta-information is displayed in a user-readable format on a client device.

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