Patent ID: 7293098

Claim:
A tangible computer-readable medium encoded with a client computer program for transferring secure data, wherein execution of the computer program by one or more processors causes the “one or more processors” to perform steps comprising: a) making a request from a server; b) receiving from said server at least one of at least two secure cookies created by said server, each of said at least two secure cookies including conforming client data; c) storing at least one of said at least two secure cookies; and d) presenting to a related server at least one of said stored at least two secure cookies with a second request, said related server: i) residing on the same domain as said server; ii) making a determination of whether at least one of said at least one retrieved stored at least two secure cookies contains said selected conforming client data; and iii) fulfilling said second request if said determination is positive; wherein at least one of said at least two secure cookies is a key cookie containing an encrypted session key, said encrypted session key capable of being used for encrypting said value data contained in another of said at least two secure cookies.