Patent ID: 8131763

Claim:
A method of recording a user's access or attempted access of content over a wireless handset, comprising: maintaining a plurality of predefined content categories, the plurality of predefined content categories including universal, youth, teen, age-restricted, and banned, each of the plurality of predefined content categories specifying and mapped to one or more user-permissible ratings in a plurality of content types to define the one or more user-permissible ratings for a particular age group, the plurality of content types including two or more of video, music, audio, ring-back tones, games, applications, messaging, and chat sites, wherein each of the one or more user-permissible ratings is specific to a particular one of the plurality of content types, wherein each of the plurality of predefined content categories is selectable, wherein selection of a particular one of the plurality of predefined content categories results in the user being permitted access to content with the one or more user-permissible ratings of the particular one of the plurality of predefined content categories; receiving an indication of one of the plurality of predefined content categories to assign to the user, the indication comprising a single selection of the one of the plurality of predefined content categories; assigning the indicated one of the plurality of predefined content categories to the user; receiving from the user a request to access certain content; determining a content category of the certain content by following a mapping of a rating of the certain content to a corresponding one of the plurality of predefined content categories; determining whether the user is allowed to access the certain content based upon the mapping of the certain content to the corresponding one of the plurality of predefined content categories and the indicated one of the plurality of predefined content categories assigned to the user; if the user is allowed to access said certain content, then providing the user with access to the certain content via the wireless handset, the wireless handset displaying the certain content to the user, and recording the user's access to the certain content; and if the user is not allowed access to the certain content, then denying the user access to the certain content on the wireless handset and recording the user's request to access certain content.