Patent ID: 7941505

Claim:
In a computer network comprising a local server and an enterprise server in communication with the local server, a method for associating at the enterprise server a client of a user with information of a local user profile of the user, the method comprising: identifying at the local server the client during one or more interactions by the client with the local server using persistent state information transmitted to the client by the local server; establishing at the local server the local user profile of the user based on the one or more interactions with the local server; identifying at the enterprise server the client using persistent state information transmitted to the client by the enterprise server; transmitting by the local server to the enterprise server information of the local user profile; and associating at the enterprise server the client with the information of the local user profile established at the local server, wherein the persistent state information transmitted to the client by the enterprise server and the persistent state information transmitted to the client by the local server are associated.