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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2010
Jimson Xu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Deneb Meketa, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ian G. Melven, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew T. Wobensmith, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jethro Villegas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jimson Xu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Deneb Meketa, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ian G. Melven, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew T. Wobensmith, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jethro Villegas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, support a browser privacy mode in a plugin of the browser. In one aspect, a method includes applying a private browsing mode of a browser in a plugin program of the browser, the applying including: obtaining, in a process, an indication of the private browsing mode of the browser; specifying, in response to the indication, that an instance of the plugin program initiated within the process is set to run in a private data mode that cannot be exited; receiving, in the instance of the plugin program initiated within the process and set to run in the private data mode, information that results in locally cached data; and saving, in response to the receiving, the locally cached data entirely in volatile memory without saving to persistent storage.