Cookie preservation when switching devices

• US 8,495,195 B1
• Filed: 11/04/2010
• Issued: 07/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Abidogun, Ayodeji, Subramanyan, Badri P., Maddumakumara, Nandana T., Upadhyay, Piyush
• Primary Examiner(s): Baturay, Alicia
• Application Number:
  US12/939,645
• Time in Patent Office: 992 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1066 Session management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/146 Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding

Abstract

Cookies differentiate users and maintain data related to a user during navigation. Cookies are used for activities such as authenticating, session tracking, and maintaining specific information about users. An embodiment facilitates a method of preserving cookies associated with a first mobile device operated by a user who begins using a second mobile device. Includes receiving a plurality of cookies associated with the first mobile device and storing the cookies in a data store associated with a gateway server. A cookie request is received from the second mobile device and the cookies are provided to the second mobile device.

Claims

1. One or more nontransitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, facilitate a method of preserving cookies associated with a first mobile device operated by a user who begins using a second mobile device, the method comprising:

receiving, at the second mobile device, an identifier that corresponds to the user;

providing the identifier to a gateway server, wherein the gateway server receives a plurality of cookies associated with the first mobile device and stores the plurality of cookies in a data store associated with the gateway server; and

receiving, at the second mobile device, the plurality of cookies from the gateway server, wherein receiving the plurality of cookies at the second mobile device includes

A) receiving a first subset of the plurality of cookies in a first response, wherein receiving the first subset includes receiving a cookie header with said first subset, wherein the cookie header indicates the number of cookies in the first subset and the total number of the plurality of cookies,

B) receiving a second subset of the plurality of cookies in a second response, and

C) receiving a confirmation header that indicates that all of the plurality of cookies has been provided to the second mobile device.

2. The media of claim 1, wherein the first mobile device is not enabled to handle cookies and the second mobile device is enabled to handle cookies.

3. The media of claim 1, wherein the gateway server is located entirely within a mobile network.

4. The media of claim 1, wherein the gateway server does not encrypt any of the plurality of cookies.

5. The media of claim 1, wherein the gateway server deletes the plurality of cookies stored in the data store after providing the plurality of cookies to the second mobile device.

6. The media of claim 1, wherein said receiving the identifier includes receiving a user input specifying information about the identifier.

7. The media of claim 1, wherein one or more of the plurality of cookies includes personal information associated with the user.