US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 11 for "Cookie compliance management" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,245, issued on March 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cookie compliance management" was invented by Richard James McCarty (Austin, Texas), Ning Yan (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Vishwas Chouhan (Oakland Garden, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cookie compliance management system enables automated evaluation of cookie compliance within an enterprise. The system determines whether a cookie set by an application in the environment is compliant with a policy. It comprises a workflow engine, a cookie discovery engine (CDE), a cookie characterization engine (CCE), a cookie policy engine (PE), ...