Method and system for providing advanced notice of cost to access web content
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1. An intermediation system disposed within an HTTP communication path between a client station and a content server on a packet-switched network, the intermediation system comprising:
- a network interface for receiving and sending communications on the HTTP communication path, wherein the network interface receives a communication that carries web content that is being transmitted to the client station and the web content defines a hyperlink that points to referenced web content; and
cost-embellishment logic for inserting into the web content an indication of cost to access the referenced web content and for thereby establishing cost-embellished web content,wherein the cost-embellishment logic does not insert the indication of cost if exception data specifies that a user of the client station already has a right to access the referenced web content, andwherein the network interface sends the cost-embellished web content along the access channel for ultimate receipt and presentation of the cost-embellished web content by a browser running on the client station.
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Abstract
A method and system for providing advanced notice of cost to access web content. During transmission of web content over a communication path between a content server and a client station, an intermediation system adds into the web content, in conjunction with a hyperlink to web content, an indication of cost to access the referenced web content. The indication of cost will then be presented to a user when the web content is presented to the user, thereby giving the user an advanced notice of the cost to access the referenced content.
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1. An intermediation system disposed within an HTTP communication path between a client station and a content server on a packet-switched network, the intermediation system comprising:
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a network interface for receiving and sending communications on the HTTP communication path, wherein the network interface receives a communication that carries web content that is being transmitted to the client station and the web content defines a hyperlink that points to referenced web content; and cost-embellishment logic for inserting into the web content an indication of cost to access the referenced web content and for thereby establishing cost-embellished web content, wherein the cost-embellishment logic does not insert the indication of cost if exception data specifies that a user of the client station already has a right to access the referenced web content, and wherein the network interface sends the cost-embellished web content along the access channel for ultimate receipt and presentation of the cost-embellished web content by a browser running on the client station. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. An intermediation system disposed within an access channel between a client station and a content server on a packet-switched network, the intermediation system comprising:
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a network interface for receiving and sending communications on the access channel; detection-logic for detecting web content that is being transmitted to the client station in a communication received by the network interface, the web content having been provided by a content server on the packet-switched network, the web content defining a hyperlink that points to referenced web content; cost-embellishment logic for inserting into the web content an indication of cost to access the referenced web content and for thereby establishing cost-embellished web content, wherein the network interface sends the cost-embellished web content along the access channel for ultimate receipt and presentation of the cost-embellished web content by a browser running on the client station; and exception data that indicates whether a user of the client station already has a right to access the referenced web content, wherein the cost-embellishment logic does not insert the indication of cost if the exception data specifies that the user of the client station already has a right to access the references web content. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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