Patent ID: 7100075

Claim:
A computer system comprising: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor; at least one non-volatile data store including a first data store and a second data store; a data port; a communication device for communicating over a communications link to an external device over the Internet; and at least one of a (i) data store switch and (ii) a communications device switch, the data-store switch when present having a switch state and being operative to modify the accessibility of at least one of the first and second data stores according to an access status of said communications device, and the communications device switch when present being operative to modify the accessibility of said communications device by said computer including by said at least one data store according to the access status of said communications device; the computer being operable to execute an Internet browser application program; and the processor programmatically recognizing the intended launch or actual launch of the Internet browser and controlling the state of the data-store switch to make the second data store the only accessible data store when data is received from the Internet over the communications link.