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Amazon patents cookies
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 10:41:36 -0500
To: undisclosed-recipient:; From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Subject: Amazon patents cookies United States Patent 6,714,926 Benson March 30, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Use of browser cookies to store structured data Abstract A web site system implements a process for storing selected data structures within browser cookies. The data structures may contain a variety of different types of data elements, including N-bit integers and other non-character elements. A version tracking scheme provides forward and backward compatibility between client and server software. The process is implemented without the need for any browser extensions, and without the need for users to download any special code to their computers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inventors: Benson; Eric A. (Seattle, WA) Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc. (Seattle, WA) Appl. No.: 494712 Filed: January 31, 2000 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1 ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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