System and method for associating a client identity between servers

• US 20110093523A1
• Filed: 07/22/2010
• Published: 04/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Daniel J. Jaye
• Original Assignee: Daniel J. Jaye
• Inventors: Jaye, Daniel J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,219,613 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A client identity is associated between servers by establishing an identity for the client at a first sever, storing information about the client at the first server, identifying the client at a second server using a second ID transmitted by the client to the second server, linking the first ID and the second ID, and associating the information about the client with the second ID.

Claims

1. A method for sharing information between servers about a client, the method comprising:

identifying the client at a first server using a first ID transmitted by the client to the first server;

storing information about the client at the first server;

identifying the client at a second server using a second ID transmitted by the client to the second server;

linking the first ID and the second ID; and

associating the information about the client with the second ID.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the client transmits the first ID to the first server by transmitting a first cookie stored at the client.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the client transmits the second ID to the second server by transmitting a second cookie stored at the client.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first ID and the second ID are liked at the second server.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first ID and the second ID are linked at the second server, by transmitting a URL by the client to the second server, wherein the URL includes the first ID.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the URL is received by the client from the first server.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the information about the client is associated with the second ID at the second server.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the information about the client is associated with the second ID at the second server.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the information about the client is associated with the second ID at the second server by transmitting the information by the first server to the second server.

10. The method of claim 4, wherein the information about the client is associated with the second ID at the second server.

11. A method for sharing an identity of a client between a first server and a second server, the method comprising:

establishing an ID for the client at the first sever by utilizing a cookie transmitted to the client by the first server; and

transmitting to the client by the first server a URL, wherein the URL includes the ID and information identifying the first server, and wherein the URL is addressed to a second server.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising, sending by the first server to the second server first information about the client associated with the ID at the first server.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first information about the client is sent by the first server to the second server by transmitting the information by the first server to the second server.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the ID is stored in a cookie at the client.

15. A server computer tangibly embodying computer logic that:

identifies a client using an ID received from the client; and

transmits to the client a URL, wherein the URL includes the ID and information identifying the server computer, and wherein the URL is addressed to a second server.

16. The server computer of claim 15, further comprising computer logic that sends to the second server first information about the client associated with the ID at the server computer.

17. The server computer of claim 16, wherein the first information about the client is sent to the second server by transmitting the information by the server computer to the second server.

18. The server computer of claim 15, wherein the ID is stored in a cookie at the client.