Patent ID: 8775619

Claim:
A distributed proxy server system, the system comprising: a web security service website; a proxy server, comprising: one or more processors; and a memory, wherein the memory stores instructions comprising instructions to cause the one or more processors to: receive a request at the proxy server from a client computer, the request for internet access to a first website; determine if a master cookie associated with user identification information is available to allow access to the website; perform authentication for a user associated with the request when no master cookie is available; create the master cookie associated with both the user identification information and the web security service website after performing the authentication; allow access to the first website via the proxy server by using the master cookie at the proxy server and relaying the request to the first website; create a second cookie that is associated with the first website, the second cookie having information for the first website and additional identity information provided by the distributed proxy server system redirecting to the first website; inject the second cookie into a response to the client computer along with the response from the first website such that the second cookie appears to the client computer to come from domain of the first website, the second cookie in the response to the client computer containing the additional identity information; and remove the additional identify information from the second cookie by the proxy server prior to relaying the request to the first website.