Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2001-03-28
2009-10-13
LeRoux, Etienne P (Department: 2161)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
active
07603356
ABSTRACT:
Cookie files received from cookie file sources (e.g., Internet websites) are screened based upon the recommendations of a service provider which downloads privacy protection criteria in the form of a “watch list” to a subscriber's client machine. A user-friendly interface allows the subscriber to optionally modify the watch list prior to it being used at the subscriber's client machine by assigning known cookie file sources to either a “trustlist” or a “blacklist.” A “composite list” is then generated and used by the client machine to screen cookie files. The subscriber receives updates from the service provider on either a periodic or “as-needed” basis using a “quick update algorithm.” A “privacy scanning algorithm” runs on the client machine and has two different modes of operation. The first is a continuous mode where unwanted cookie files are blocked from being stored at the client machine. The second is a periodic mode where the client machine is “scrubbed” of unwanted cookie files according to the privacy protection criteria.
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Norton Internet Security 2000—Review by Julien Jay.
Symantec Bundles Safe Surfing Tools—by Alexandra Krasne.
Attachment 1: Ascentive website as of Feb. 29, 2000 showing Ascentive products.
Attachment 2: Waybackmachine search of Ascentive website.
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Darlington Robert E.
Schran Adam R.
Ascentive LLC
LeRoux Etienne P
Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP
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