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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2009
Parag Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Yen Su, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nicholas Zakas, Mountain View, CA (US);
Parag Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Yen Su, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nicholas Zakas, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method which may allow a Web application to manage cookies and prevent important data in cookies from being arbitrarily deleted. Cookie data may be separated into a number of tiers according to their importance. When a request to write new data to a cookie is received, the tier to which the new data belongs may be determined and compared to the tier(s) of existing data in the cookie, and existing data may be deleted from the cookie to free room for the new data only when the existing data is not more important than the new data.