Patent ID: 7770217

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, with a network access control device, a request for a web server to provide a client device access to a web site; transmitting, with the network access control device, information associated with the request over a network to a web filtering server external from the network access control device; receiving, with the network access control device, a response from the web filtering server over the network, wherein the response includes an indication of whether a client device is allowed access to the web site and includes a filtering category associated with the web site; utilizing, with the network access control device, the filtering category within the response to identify a differentiated services value from a mapping table in the network access control device, wherein the mapping table includes multiple filtering categories that are correlated to multiple differentiated services values; and when the response from the web filtering server indicates that the client device is allowed to access the web site, marking, with the network access control device, the request with the differentiated services value correlated with the filtering category, and forwarding the marked request towards the web server according to the differential services value associated with the request.