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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1999
Leonardo Coutinho Massarani, Westport, CT (US);
Tapas Kumar Som, Germantown, MD (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a computer network such as the Internet including one or more servers and one or more user units or clients wherein at least some user units do not transmit client identification information such as Web cookies, a method and system for performing the method for a server to communicate with at least one of the client units, comprising the steps of: receiving an access request from one of the user units, the user unit including a network browser; determining whether the access request received originated from a cookies capable or cookies enabled network browser; and simulate and proxy cookies support at the server, on behalf of the network browser, at the server when it is determined that the access request received did not originate from a non-cookies capable or non-cookies enabled network browser.