Patent ID: 7949702

Claim:
A method of synchronizing different copies of a cookie across a plurality of client computing devices that access a network, said method comprising the steps of: (1) registering a plurality of client computing devices as members of an account, wherein at least one cookie is to be synchronized across said plurality of client computing devices that are members of said account, each of said plurality of client computing devices containing a different copy of said at least one cookie; (2) maintaining information identifying the members of said account at a server on said network; (3) responsive to a change in a copy of said at least one cookie stored at a first one of said client computing devices that is a member of said account, said first member client computing device sending a message to said server on said network, said message containing sufficient data from which said changes to said copy of said at least one cookie can be determined and the account to which said first member client computing device corresponds; (4) storing said data at said server; (5) said server sending said data to other client computing devices that are members of said account; and (6) each of said other client computing devices that is a member of said account updating its copy of said at least one cookie in accordance with said data.