Abstract: A “cookie” is a set of information, such as user information and preferences, used by web sites to customize information for a user. A number of web sites register with a “cookie server” and provide the server with information regarding what data fields are expected in cookies submitted from clients to the web site. When a client subsequently browses to that web site, the client first checks with the cookie server for any expected cookies. The cookie server uses the cookie requirement information for that web site, along with user specific information, to generate one or more cookies. The cookie server then transmits the one or more cookies to the client. The client then transmits the one or more cookies to the web site so that the web site may provide a customized web page.

Abstract: A server uses cookie requirement information obtained from a web site, along with user specific information, to generate one or more cookies that are stored at the server and that can be used to generate customized web documents from the web site. The cookie server provides the cookies to the client which transmits the cookies to the web site to obtain the customized web document, which is customized according to the user information. The server also updates the stored cookies collectively, in response to receiving updated user information, such that the one or more web sites that are customized with the cookies are to be customized according to the updated user information.

Abstract: A “cookie” is a set of information, such as user information and preferences, used by web sites to customize information for a user. A number of web sites register with a “cookie server” and provide the server with information regarding what data fields are expected in cookies submitted from clients to the web site. When a client subsequently browses to that web site, the client first checks with the cookie server for any expected cookies. The cookie server uses the cookie requirement information for that web site, along with user specific information, to generate one or more cookies. The cookie server then transmits the one or more cookies to the client. The client then transmits the one or more cookies to the web site so that the web site may provide a customized web page.

Abstract: A proxy server “platform” is provided that is easily modified and customized to reformat web content in a particular way under certain conditions as determined by the operator of the proxy server. The proxy server retrieves from the Internet web content requested by a client, reformats it into a suitable format for the requesting client, and then forwards the reformatted web content to the requesting client. The proxy server evaluates operator-alterable rules to determine, based on capabilities of the requesting client (and/or on request variables), specifically how to reformat the requested web content so that it will be suitable for passing on to the requesting client. The platform has a “modular” architecture wherein content reformatting is performed by one or more “modules”. The modules are dynamically-linkable into the executing proxy server platform software at run time.

Abstract: A “cookie” is a set of information, such as user information and preferences, used by web sites to customize information for a user. A number of web sites register with a “cookie server” and provide the server with information regarding what data fields are expected in cookies submitted from clients to the web site. When a client subsequently browses to that web site, the client first checks with the cookie server for any expected cookies. The cookie server uses the cookie requirement information for that web site, along with user specific information, to generate one or more cookies. The cookie server then transmits the one or more cookies to the client. The client then transmits the one or more cookies to the web site so that the web site may provide a customized web page.