US 12,250,245 B2
Cookie compliance management
Richard James McCarty, Austin, TX (US); Ning Yan, Yorktown Heights, NY (US); and Vishwas Chouhan, Oakland Garden, NY (US)
Assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/458,641.
Application 17/458,641 is a continuation of application No. 16/427,329, filed on May 30, 2019, granted, now 11,122,086.
Prior Publication US 2021/0392168 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 67/50 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/20 (2013.01) [G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); H04L 67/535 (2022.05)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A compliance management system, comprising:
a discovery engine configured to identify a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) cookie set by an application and a set of one or more base attributes associated with the HTTP cookie;
a characterization engine configured to characterize the HTTP cookie by a set of one or more descriptive attributes required to evaluate the HTTP cookie according to a policy, wherein the set of one or more descriptive attributes associated with the HTTP cookie are calculated based on the set of one or more base attributes identified by the discovery engine; and
a policy engine configured to apply the policy to the HTTP cookie identified by the discovery engine and characterized by the characterization engine;
wherein the discovery engine, the characterization engine, and the policy engine are configured to execute in an automated manner as software in one or more hardware processors.