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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2000
Applicants:
Paul Andre Gauthier, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kevin A. Epstein, San Mateo, CA (US);
Anshu Aggarwal, Foster City, CA (US);
Inventors:
Paul Andre Gauthier, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kevin A. Epstein, San Mateo, CA (US);
Anshu Aggarwal, Foster City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Inktomi Corporation, Foster City, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for capturing and managing user-specific data, where the user-specific data contains information on the user's interaction with the Net. The method generally involves using a proxy to capture or cause to capture the user-specific data and then storing the user-specific data. The user-specific data may be used to customize the contents of electronic information delivered to the particular user.