Patent ID: 6311207
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04M,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
In a networked computer system includes a server system having a plurality of remote servers and a plurality of proxy servers, and a plurality of client systems, all of which are logically interconnected so that the client systems can access informational content stored at the one or more remote servers, and wherein at least one of the client systems is comprised of an electronics unit which provides a graphical user interface by which the Internet can be accessed and browsed using a conventional television set as a display, a method of increasing security of user database information retained by the server system by reducing the number of direct accesses of such user database information when accessing requested services provided by the server system, comprising steps for:at one of the servers of the server system, determining the validity of a log-in request received from a client system;as part of a log-in service, obtaining at the server which received the log-in request, access to a user database and preparing an information packet that includes access privileges in relation to other services available in the server system;downloading to the client system the prepared information packet; andthereafter, for any other service for which access is requested by the client system, the server at which said any other service request is received regulating access to the requested service based on a copy of the information packet submitted with the client system request, whereby access to the user database is limited to the initial log-in service.