Remember The Story About The Secret Cookie Recipe? Looks Like It’s Been Patented
D. Geller - January 1, 2003

Event Summary

U.S. Patent Number 6,073,241 has been issued to CNET for 'Apparatus and method for tracking world wide browser requests across distinct domains using persistent client-side state.' The patent application was filed in August 1996, which suggests that inventors Jonathan Rosenberg, Munish Gandhi and Andrew Werth were among the earliest to think about this problem...