Re: Amazon's new cookie patent

And the question is: is it still possible to comply with the cookie  
RFCs without infringing this patent...



On Apr 1, 2004, at 11:11 AM, Richard M. Smith wrote:

> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser? 
> Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/ 
> srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,714,926.WKU.&OS=PN/6,714,926&RS=PN/ 
> 6,714,926
>  
>
> Inventors:
>  Benson; Eric A. (Seattle, WA)
>
>  Assignee:
>  Amazon.com, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
>
>  Appl. No.:
>  494712
>
> Filed:
>  January 31, 2000
>  
> Use of browser cookies to store structured data
>
>  Abstract
>
> A web site system implements a process for storing selected data  
> structures within browser cookies. The data structures may contain a  
> variety of different types of data elements, including N-bit integers  
> and other non-character elements. A version tracking scheme provides  
> forward and backward compatibility between client and server software.  
> The process is implemented without the need for any browser  
> extensions, and without the need for users to download any special  
> code to their computers.
>
>  ....
>
>  

Received on Thursday, 1 April 2004 11:28:14 UTC