PatentBrief

Inventor

Lou Montulli

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1998

Associated with

Years active

1998

Total patents

1

Most recent

1998

Domains

web-standardsprivacye-commercebrowsersinternet-protocols

Activity by decade

1990s
1

Patents

1

US 5774670·1998·Netscape Communications Corp

The HTTP Cookie — How Websites Remember Who You Are

Lou Montulli's 1998 Netscape patent describes the browser cookie — the mechanism that lets websites store small pieces of data on your computer so they can remember your login, shopping cart, and preferences across page loads.