US 8090877

Patent Overview — US8090877B2

Title: Systems and methods for fine grain policy driven cookie proxying

Patent number / application: US8090877B2; Application US12/360,014

Assignee: Citrix Systems Inc (original and current assignee, per the source listing)

Key dates (as listed, subject to the source's own assumptions):

• Priority date: 2008-01-26
• Filing date: 2009-01-26
• Publication of US20090193129A1: 2009-07-30
• Grant/publication of US8090877B2: 2012-01-03
• Adjusted expiration listed: 2029-10-01; legal status listed Active

Inventors: Puneet Agarwal; Saibal Kumar Adhya; Srinivasan Thirunarayanan; James Harris

Purpose: The application "generally relates to data communication networks" and to "systems and methods for fine grain policy driven cookie proxying management, clientless cookie management and techniques for cookie proxying." The stated problem: an enterprise serves clients with differing cookie capability and security configurations, so "a client that is not enabled to use cookies may have difficulty connecting and using the service." The proposed solution lets an enterprise offer services "regardless of their cookie or cookie related security configurations," and "enables a client that is not configured to use cookies to access a server that uses cookies."

Plain-language scope (from the excerpt): An intermediary deployed between client and server "intercepts and modifies transmissions" to compensate for cookie-configuration mismatch. In the described method, the intermediary receives a server response containing a URL and a cookie, "remove[s] the cookie from the response," inserts a unique client identifier into the URL, stores the removed cookie in association with that identifier, and forwards the modified response to the client. On the return path, the intermediary matches the request URL against stored removed cookies, "add[s] the removed cookie" to the request URL, and forwards it to the server. A cookie manager performs matching; name-value pairs may be returned; responses may carry multiple cookies and multiple client identifiers; the unique client identifier may be "a cookie proxy session cookie comprising a portion of the cookie."

Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US8090877](/patent/US8090877)/en

What the excerpt does not establish: The full claim language and claim count; the complete specification and figures (text was truncated at "The intermediary receives th…"); the actual content of any prior-art references or their dates; examination history; and whether any listed legal status, expiration, or assignee information is accurate or current.