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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2013
Applicant:

Time Warner Cable Enterprises Llc, New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Howard Pfeffer, Reston, VA (US);

Peter Stern, Riverside, CT (US);

Michael Dillon, Aldie, VA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/02 (2013.01); G06F 3/00 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); H04L 63/0421 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for managing the delivery of targeted content. When a user desires to opt-out of receiving targeted content, the user registers with a do-not-target (DNT) registry and is issued a DNT cookie. A provider of targeted content may look for the DNT cookie stored on the user's network access device. When the DNT cookie is not found, the provider may deliver targeted content to the user. When the DNT cookie is found, the provider may not deliver targeted content to the user. A Web site may offer the user an 'override' cookie that allows that Web site to provide targeted content, or selected targeted content, even when the user has a DNT cookie. Alternatively, a DNT header can be added to a Web page request that indicates that the user does not want to receive targeted content. The DNT header may be overridden by an override cookie.


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