Patent ID: 8862515

Claim:
Consumer electronic (CE) device comprising: housing; display on the housing; network interface; processor in the housing controlling the display and communicating with the Internet through the network interface; the processor executing logic including: contacting a management server; providing an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the management server, the IP address being associated with a geographic location associated with the CE device; receiving from the management server a user token and at least one geographically-tailored service list, the service list containing only content server addresses that have been approved for access in the geographic region indicated by the IP address of the CE device, the server addresses being uniform resource locators (URLs); presenting the service list on the display; and responsive to a user selection of an entry on the service list, accessing a content server associated with the entry, wherein as part of the accessing of a content server the processor also provides the user token such that the CE device receives a content list of available content from the content server only responsive to the content server receiving the user token, checking the user token against a local database of active tokens, and responsive to the user token being in the database, the content server returns the content list to the CE device such that no further authentication is required between the CE device and content server beyond the provisioning of a valid user token by the CE device, and further wherein, responsive to a determination that the content server appears on the service list provided by the management server, the CE device trusts the content server without need for any further authentication on the part of the content server, wherein the logic controls the processor to permit the user no access to Internet sites other than to the management server and content servers on the service list.