System and method for network administration and local administration of privacy protection criteria

摘要

Cookie files are screened in a client machine, wherein a cookie file includes a cookie file source. A request from a subscriber is received at a server to send a list of untrusted cookie file sources to the client machine. The list of untrusted cookie file sources is downloaded from the server to the client machine. The downloaded list of untrusted cookie file sources is used to detect cookie files received at the client machine from cookie file sources on the downloaded list by comparing the cookie file source of any received cookie file to the untrusted cookie file sources on the downloaded list.

主权项

1. A method of screening cookie files in a client machine, wherein a cookie file includes a cookie file source, the method comprising:
(a) transmitting a request for a list of untrusted cookie file sources from the client machine to a server; (b) downloading the list of untrusted cookie file sources from the server to the client machine; (c) using the downloaded list of untrusted cookie file sources to detect cookie files received at the client machine from cookie file sources on the downloaded list by comparing the cookie file source of any received cookie file to the untrusted cookie file sources on the downloaded list; and (d) performing at least one of:
(i) removing stored cookie files received at the client machine from cookie file sources on the downloaded list by (A) comparing the cookie file source of stored cookie files to the cookie file sources on the downloaded list, and (B) removing any stored cookie files that have matching cookie file sources, and(ii) preventing cookie files received at the client machine from cookie file sources on the downloaded list from being stored in the client machine by (A) comparing the cookie file source of received cookie files to the cookie file sources on the downloaded list and, (B) preventing storage of any received cookie files that have matching cookie file sources.