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Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 01, 2010
Applicants:

Siddhartha Roy, Kirkland, WA (US);

Sijian Zhang, Bellevue, WA (US);

Michael Elizarov, Sammamish, WA (US);

Shaoyu Zhou, Issaquah, WA (US);

Fei Cao, Issaquah, WA (US);

Inventors:

Siddhartha Roy, Kirkland, WA (US);

Sijian Zhang, Bellevue, WA (US);

Michael Elizarov, Sammamish, WA (US);

Shaoyu Zhou, Issaquah, WA (US);

Fei Cao, Issaquah, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); G06F 21/604 (2013.01); G06F 21/6209 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for maintaining user privacy preferences based on one or more user identifications across a plurality of applications are provided. Two or more user identifications are received with associated user privacy preferences. The received user identification is compared against other user identifications to determine if the user identifications relate to the same user. It may be determined that two user identifications are related if they have at least one browser property in common. A consolidated data stream of the user privacy preferences for the related user identifications is created. The consolidated data stream is communicated to one or more applications and propagated to maintain the user privacy preferences across the applications relating to the user identification.


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