Patent ID: 7152164

Claim:
A network based web content identification and control system for wide area networks, like the Internet, comprising: client computer(s), which are any computers in the network; an examiner host computer, which is a remote third-party host computer in the wide area network, being outside of the local network sphere of: (a) the client computers, (b) any intermediate computer intercepting client requested web content, (c) and, any source host computer of the client requested web content; wherein the examiner host is an independently operating host as a master server, rather than a subordinate slave server such as a database server; wherein the examiner host controls its processes and resources independently, rather than under direct external command; performing an on-demand remote identity check on a specially established tiny-sized independent identification of the web content, what is used as a preferred method of processing rather than processing said web content as such; wherein said identification is a data object which is based on certain property(ies) of said web content so that a unique representation of the identity of said web content is established in smaller size; wherein said identity check relies on said identification in preference over obtaining said web content itself to said identity check; wherein said identity check is performed by the examiner host in response to a remote service request; wherein said identification is delivered without said web content for said identity check, in response to a client direct request to receive said web content from the network; wherein in response to said identity check service request, the examiner host reserves to the service requestor a temporary service-specific: (a) service access, (b) service communication bridge, (c) and, service process; wherein the examiner host returns the results of said identity check as a feedback, and on the basis of said results: (a) it is performed safety or preventive measures, (b) and/or, it is informed said client, (c) or, no specific actions are performed; wherein the web content comprises file(s), web page(s), e-mail message(s), e-mail message attachment(s) or any data which a client can acquire from the network.