The patent listed here isn't as broad as depicted in Good Morning Silicon Valley, where it is represented as a "patent on cookies", but it's pretty broad and could cause widespread disruption. Essentially, the patent covers the use of cookies to manage page customization where the page structure being customized is represented as a code in the cookie. It's a pretty obvious hack, given the limitations of cookies, and widely used. To see such a patent filed in 2000 granted today demonstrates, to me at least, the the U.S. Patent Office is not aware of the state of internet development, and so long as that is the case, these undeserved patents will continue to be granted.
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