| US 7,522,909 B2 | ||
| Content access control system for a mobile communication network | ||
| William Jackson Bushnell, St. Charles, Ill. (US); and Leonard T. Pesheck, Downers Grove, Ill. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, N.J. (US) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 20, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/312,143. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0142039 A1, Jun. 21, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04M 1/66 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04M 3/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 455—411 [455/414.1; 455/419; 455/518; 455/519] | 12 Claims |
| 1. A content access control system for a mobile communications network for regulating subscriber access to content stored
by a plurality of content servers which are accessible via said mobile communications network, comprising:
content access control administration means for enabling a content manager to set subscriber content permissions for at least
one subscriber served by said mobile communications network;
rating memory means for storing said subscriber content permissions associated with said subscriber;
content access certificate means, responsive to a subscriber activating their subscriber communications device, for loading
a certificate containing said subscriber content rating from said rating memory means into said subscriber communications
device; and
content server means for enabling said subscriber to access said requested content from said identified content server using
said subscriber communications device if said retrieved certificate containing said subscriber content rating corresponds
to a content rating assigned to said requested content.
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