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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2000
Ronald Hegli, San Diego, CA (US);
John Carrington, Newport Coast, CA (US);
David Oei, San Diego, CA (US);
Websense, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for providing flexible access to Internet sites is described. The system includes a database of Internet sites that have been categorized so that the system determines the category of information that a user is accessing on the Internet. The system is also programmed so users are only allowed to access sites within a particular category a limited number of times. Moreover, users can requested a postponed access, wherein the site they are requesting is stored to a server, and available to the user at a later time. In addition, if a user chooses to access a site that is within certain predefined categories, they are presented with the option of retrieving the page, but notified that their access will be logged to a file.