Patent ID: 8607263

Claim:
Content server assembly comprising: at least one processor; at least one network interface communicating with the processor to establish communication between the processor and a wide area network; at least one computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor and bearing logic causing the processor to: provide a respective client-unique service user identification token (SUIT) to a management server for each of plural user accounts identified by the management server, the SUIT not being received from the management server prior to being provided to the management server for each of plural user accounts identified by the management server; receive from a client device accessing the content server assembly over a network path obtained by the client device from the management server at least a request for a content list and the SUIT; determine whether the SUIT is valid; and at least in part responsive to a determination that the SUIT is valid and only if the SUIT is valid, providing a content list to the client device wherein the content server assembly receives a request for a content list and information pertaining thereto and transmits the content list to the client device only if both the SUIT and a user token received from the client device are valid.