Patent ID: 8082563

Claim:
A method to control access to content via a player system accessible by a plurality of users, the method comprising: providing a default profile including at least one filtering criterion, the filtering criterion describing at least one of a characteristic of content permitted for all of the plurality of users and characteristic of content prohibited for all of the plurality of users; comparing metadata associated with a selected content and the filtering criterion of the default profile, the metadata including information related to the selected content; permitting or denying access to the content based on the comparison with the filtering criterion of the default profile; providing a user profile associated with a particular one of the plurality of the users, the user profile including at least one filtering criterion describing at least one of a characteristic of content permitted to be accessed by the particular one of the users and a characteristic of content prohibited from being accessed by the particular one of the users; comparing the filtering criterion of the user profile and the metadata; permitting access to the selected content if the content meets the filtering criterion of the user profile; and reverting back to the filtering criterion of the default profile in connection with accessing subsequent content responsive to at least one of: passage of a predetermined length of time; a predetermined number of content being accessed; an attempt to access content prohibited by the user profile; and viewing of content accessed in accordance with the user profile.