Patent ID: 8321502

Claim:
A method for optimizing a web content proxy server, the method comprising: obtaining at a proxy server a web page with an original server cookie from one of one or more web content servers in response to a request from one of one or more client devices; generating at the proxy server a web optimized client cookie based on the original server cookie, wherein the generating the web optimized client cookie further comprises forming a new name for the web optimized client cookie based on at least an original name of the original server cookie and domain and path attributes of the obtained web page; providing with the proxy server the obtained web page with the generated web optimized client cookie to the requesting one of one or more client devices; translating at the proxy server the web optimized client cookie associated with another request from the one of the one or more client devices to the original server cookie; determining with the proxy server whether the translated original server cookie corresponds with a universal resource locator of the another request; and providing with the proxy server the another request with the translated original server cookie to one of the one or more web servers when the translated original server cookie is determined to correspond.