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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Mingwu Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prajakta Kalekar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Damian Reeves, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Benjamin William Clark, New York, NY (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing information about cookies. Input is received from a data provider, the input including one or more cookies associated with users in a network. Each cookie is evaluated, and an activity level in the network for a given cookie is determined. A threshold activity level is determined. Inactive cookies are identified based on the determined activity level of a respective cookie and the threshold activity level. Inactive cookies are reported.