Patent ID: 7310516
Filing Date: 2007-12-18
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An intermediation system disposed within an HTTP communication path between a client station and a content server on a packet-switched network, the intermediation system comprising: a network interface for receiving and sending communications on the HTTP communication path, wherein the network interface receives a communication that carries web content that is being transmitted to the client station and the web content defines a hyperlink that points to referenced web content; and cost-embellishment logic for inserting into the web content an indication of cost to access the referenced web content and for thereby establishing cost-embellished web content, wherein the cost-embellishment logic does not insert the indication of cost if exception data specifies that a user of the client station already has a right to access the referenced web content, and wherein the network interface sends the cost-embellished web content along the access channel for ultimate receipt and presentation of the cost-embellished web content by a browser running on the client station.