Patent ID: 9398320
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. One or more nontransitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method of providing a content rating that enables a requesting computing device to restrict user access to requested digital content using the content rating, the method comprising: at a content server, receiving the digital content from a digital-content provider that generated the digital content, wherein the digital content is a web page; at the content server, receiving the content rating associated with the web page that indicates a nature of the web page, wherein the content rating is received from the digital-content provider that generated the web page; at the content server, storing the web page in a ratings database in a memory coupled to the content server, wherein: from a requesting computing device, receiving a request for the web page; generating a hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) response that includes the web page and the content rating associated with the web page, wherein the content rating is communicated through an attribute value in an HTTP header of the HTTP response that includes the web page and wherein generating the response includes determining the content rating associated with the web page based on the directory in which the web page is stored; and communicating the response to the requesting computing device, such that the requesting computing device is able to restrict user access to the web page using the content rating.