Patent ID: 6725269
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A system that provides a user with the ability to establish multiple identities while browsing on the Internet, the system comprising:a multiple identity web browser module adapted to allow the user to establish multiple identities on a single client computer; and an automatic cookie management module adapted to manipulate a plurality of cookie data sets corresponding to a plurality of established identities and set a current cookie data set to correspond to a current identity, such that a web site visited by the user has access only to the current cookie data corresponding to the current identity, wherein the multiple identity web browser module is adapted to allow the user to add identities to the plurality of established identities, the system provides the user with a list of e-mail sites when establishing a new identity for providing an e-mail address that corresponds to the new identity, and the system automatically begins a sign up procedure for establishing an e-mail account corresponding to the new identity in response to the user selecting from amongst the list of e-mail sites.