Patent ID: 7516177

Claim:
An apparatus for distributing content objects to a personalized access point of a user over a network based environment, comprising: a server including a database operative to store indicia associated with at least one content object and further operative to store user identifiers as well as information about which content objects have been selected by a particular user; a selection client communicating with the server via a communication link and configured to allow a user to select content objects to add to a personalized access point by submitting an indicia and a user identifier to the server; and a retrieval client communicating with the server over a communication link allowing a user to retrieve information from a personalized access point; wherein, in response to submission of the indicia and user identifier, at least one of: (a) a content object, and (b) a link to a content object are added to the personalized access point of the particular user and wherein the particular user can retrieve the content object through their personalized access point from the retrieval client.