Patent ID: 8688513

Claim:
A method for providing an access right to a restricted access communications network site, comprising: providing at least one restricted access communications network site partnered with a base entity, wherein the at least one partner site includes a first processor and wherein the at least one partner site is communicatively coupled to a communications network; and providing, by the at least one partner site or a communications network site associated with the base entity communicatively coupled to the communications network and including a second processor, a user with an access right to the at least one partner site, based on use by the user at a communication terminal of a communications network site access capability associated with the base entity; generating, by the at least one partner site or the base entity associated site, a network access identifier code for the user, wherein the access identifier code includes access right information for the at least one partner site, and wherein the access right information is determined by the at least one partner site or the base entity associated site without input from the user and includes at least one predetermined limitation on access by the user to content from the at least one partner site; and determining, by the at least one partner site or the base entity associated site, whether a predetermined interaction by the user with the at least one partner site is permissible, based on the at least one predetermined limitation on access by the user to content from the at least one partner site and activity data indicating at least one of an amount of use of the communications network site access capability associated with the base entity by the user or an amount of interaction with the at least one partner site by the user.