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AssigneeAlcatel
InventorsFrancis Pinault, Alain Guirauton
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A method is disclosed of controlling access for and/or vis-à-vis users who access a computer network enabling exchange of information, in particular the Internet, using terminals and via an access node that is shared or specific to an organization, for example a company's private automatic branch exchange, to which the terminals are connected to access the computer network via a server. The method temporarily stores, for downstream filtering, the multimedia data stream received from the computer network and addressed to a user terminal in response to an access request formulated from that terminal. The downstream filtering is applied in particular by means of an arrangement for authorizing or blocking transmission of the data stream to the terminal as a function of particular criteria. The criteria are independent of the terminal and the access provider.
A method of providing access control for and/or vis-à-vis users who access a computer network enabling exchange of information, in particular the Internet, by means of terminals, via a private access node, shared or specific to an organization, such as a company, to which said terminals are connected to access said computer network via an access server, which method stores temporarily for downstream filtering the stream of multimedia data received from said computer network addressed to a user terminal in response to an access request formulated from said terminal, said downstream filtering being applied by an arrangement for authorizing or blocking transmission of said data stream to said terminal as a function of particular criteria applied to the received data stream at said private access node.
An arrangement for providing access control for and/or vis-à-vis users who access a computer network enabling exchange of information, in particular the Internet, from terminals via a private access node that is shared or specific to an organization, such as a company, and to which said terminals are connected to access a computer network via a service provider, which arrangement includes hardware means and/or software products organized to authorize or block transmission of said data stream to said terminals as a function of particular criteria applied to said received data stream at said private access node.
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