Patent ID: 8676712

Claim:
A method for managing content in a shared use operating environment, the shared use operating environment including a registration server, a content server connectable by a network link to the registration server, and a client workstation connectable by a client-server network communications link to the content server, the method comprising the steps of: registering a user at the registration server, thereby characterizing the user as a registered user; receiving at the content server a request by the registered user for access to content which contains at least one previously treated critical portion; authenticating the request; serving at least the critical portion over the client-server network communications link for presentation to the registered user at the client workstation; preventing a copy of the critical portion of the content from being created on nonvolatile storage at the client workstation at least in part by disabling caching and other disk writes, and sending another portion of the content to nonvolatile storage at the client workstation.