Abstract: Advertisements are combined with content, such as videos, in accordance with criteria provided by advertisers and content owners. Advertisers upload advertisement(s) for publication with content. Content owners upload content and select advertisers and/or advertisement(s) for sponsorship consideration. Advertisers review the content and decide whether or not to approve the advertisement/content combination. In one embodiment, a fast track pre-approval process may be used by advertisers for selected content owners. Upon approval, advertisement(s) are combined with the content and the combined content is made available for publication to an online audience. A portion of the revenue generated by the publication of the combined content is provided to the content owner. In addition, the size of the portion of revenue may be based on a sponsorship level, or the type of advertisement(s) combined with the content.

Abstract: A connection manager which requires re-authentication of a user of a permanent virtual connection (PVC). Data transfer may be disabled upon the occurrence of a pre-specified condition, and is enabled only upon proper authentication. An out-of-band connection (e.g., another PVC) may be used for such authentication. The connection manager may disable data transfer by a controlling a customer premise equipment (CPE) serving the managed PVC.

Abstract: The shed for a snowmobile or ATV of the present invention includes a rectangular container having opposed rigid planar side walls of generally equal size in parallel spaced apart array, a rigid first end wall mounted to first ends of the side walls, and an opposite second end wall pivotally mounted to opposite second ends of the side walls so as to form a door for the container. A pair of opposed facing, substantially vertical, first arrays of apertures are formed in the side walls, adjacent the first ends of the side walls, one of the first arrays in each of the side walls. Similarly, a pair of opposed facing, substantially vertical, second arrays of apertures are formed in the side walls, adjacent the second ends of the side walls, one of the second arrays in each of the side walls.