Patent ID: 7752321
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for validating user experience type settings, the method comprising: accessing information relating to a first set of user experience type settings that is stored locally on a first device, the first set of user experience type settings defining a first set of parameters for servicing network traffic that involves a computing device and that is transmitted through a second device that is physically distinct and remote from the first device; receiving information relating to a second set of user experience type settings that is stored on the second device that is physically distinct and remote from the first device, the second set of user experience type settings defining a second set of parameters for servicing network traffic that involves the computing device and that is transmitted through the second device that is physically distinct and remote from the first device; comparing, using at least one processor, the information relating to the first set of user experience type settings that is stored on the first device with the received information relating to the second set of user experience type settings that is stored on the second device; determining, based on results of comparing the information relating to the first set of user experience type settings that is stored on the first device with the received information relating to the second set of user experience type settings that is stored on the second device, that the information relating to the first set of user experience type settings that is stored on the first device does not match the received information relating to the second set of user experience type settings that is stored on the second device; as a consequence of having determined that the information relating to the first set of user experience type settings that is stored on the first device does not match the received information relating to the second set of user experience type settings that is stored on the second device, transmitting from the first device, the first set of user experience type settings to the second device that is physically distinct and remote from the first device to enable the second device to update the second set of user experience type settings that is stored on the second device to match the first set of user experience type settings that is stored on the first device; receiving, at the first device and from the second device, a communication that originated from the computing device, that is intended for a destination system, and that includes the updated second set of user experience type settings; and as a consequence of the inclusion of the updated second set of user experience settings within the communication received from the second device, regulating transmission of at least a portion of the received communication from the first device to the destination system according to the parameters for servicing network traffic defined in the updated second set of user experience type settings.