Patent ID: 8607320

Claim:
A system comprising: an authorization controller operable for regulating establishment of sessions over a data network; a processing subsystem operable for monitoring the sessions and applying a walled garden policy that includes: populating a database with an association between each of a plurality of user accounts and a respective walled garden selected from a common plurality of walled gardens; identifying a target session to be terminated and restarted, the target session involving a particular communication endpoint; releasing a session management command identifying the target session; the authorization controller being further operable for responding to the session management command by: terminating the target session; triggering the particular communication endpoint to issue a new access request; and responding to receipt of the new access request from the particular communication endpoint by: consulting the database to identify the walled garden respectively associated with a particular user account identified in the new access request; and directing the particular communication endpoint to the walled garden respectively associated with the particular user account, wherein the new access request received from the particular communication endpoint comprises an account identifier and a set of credentials and wherein triggering the particular communication endpoint comprises supplying the account identifier and the set of credentials to the particular communication endpoint, and wherein the authorization controller is implemented in hardware.