Patent ID: 8914903

Claim:
A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium executed by a processor, comprising: computer code for identifying a transmission of an instance of digital content over a network from a content provider to a client device, wherein the transmission is responsive to a request from the client device for the digital content; computer code for receiving, at a system remote from the client device, a message from the client device that is generated by the client device, where a content of the message generated by the client device is based on a comparison by the client device of the instance of the digital content received by the client device with digital content expected to be received by the client device, such that the message from the client device indicates that the client device has validated that the instance of the digital content transmitted to and received by the client device is the digital content requested, and expected to be received, by the client device; and computer code for validating receipt of the digital content by the client device utilizing the system remote from the client device, in response to the receipt of the message from the client device; wherein the message received at the system remote from the client device validates that the instance of the digital content transmitted to and received by the client device includes an attribute that matches an attribute received by the client device from the content provider independent of the instance of the digital content.