Abstract: A computerized system providing parental supervision of child consumers of digital media, comprising an electronic repository of digital content; user interface for children, adults, digital content providers and guidance providers where digital content providers may upload digital content items into the repository and guidance providers may provide guidance objects for adults which are specific for subsets of children end-users being defined in terms of metadata, and for specific spots within, or portions of, specific items in the digital contents items; and logic including a central processor and configured to control interactions of the user interfaces with the processor and between various end-users at least partly depending on the category of each end-user wherein the logic presents overlaid digital content item/s to child C, including generating the overlaid item by selecting guidance object G specific to subset to which C belongs, and integrating G into the digital content as an overlay.

Abstract: A computerized system providing parental supervision of child consumers of digital media, comprising an electronic repository of digital content; user interface for children, adults, digital content providers and guidance providers where digital content providers may upload digital content items into the repository and guidance providers may provide guidance objects for adults which are specific for subsets of children end-users being defined in terms of metadata, and for specific spots within, or portions of, specific items in the digital contents items; and logic including a central processor and configured to control interactions of the user interfaces with the processor and between various end-users at least partly depending on the category of each end-user wherein the logic presents overlaid digital content item/s to child C, including generating the overlaid item by selecting guidance object G specific to subset to which C belongs, and integrating G into the digital content as an overlay.

Abstract: Computerized system operative to perform selectable system-actions responsive to user input, the system being accessible to non-literate users via a touch screen defining touch screen locations respectively corresponding to the selectable system-actions, the touch screen being operative to detect and distinguish between first and second gestures, the system comprising a processor-controlled touch-triggered actor which, responsive to at least each first gesture applied by end-user to an individual location within the touch screen, from among plural touch screen locations, performs individual action/s which corresponds to the individual location; and a processor-controlled touch-triggered oral presenter which, responsive to at least each second gesture applied by end-user to an individual location within the touch screen, from among the plural touch screen locations, presents an oral characterization of individual action/s which corresponds to said individual location.

Abstract: A secured computerized system comprising a computerized environment secured to prevent access thereto, other than by end-users who have passed a what-you-know authentication test: what-you-know testing functionality for administering a what-you-know user authentication test to end-user/s, including presenting image/s to end-user, and approving end-user to enter the computerized environment if end-user correctly selects predetermined location/s within the image; and a graphic what-you-know test-configuring functionality for displaying system-selected location/s within the image; providing a graphic interface operative for accepting, from, end-user/s, a user-selected modification of system-selected location/s; and storing, for each individual end-user, the user-selected modification as the individual end-user's predetermined location/s; or if no user-selected modification exists for an individual end-user, storing the system-selected location as the individual end-user's predetermined location.

Abstract: A secured computerized social networking system for pupils including a mail server operative to interface with a secured parent environment; and a secured pupil environment, the system comprising a computerized environment secured to prevent access thereto, other than by end-users who have passed a what-you-know authentication test; a what-you-know testing functionality; and a graphic what-you-know test-configuring functionality, the system being operative to perform a plurality of selectable system-actions responsive to user input, the system being accessible to non-literate users via a touch screen defining a plurality of touch screen locations respectively corresponding to the plurality of selectable system-actions, the touch screen being operative to detect and distinguish between first and second gestures, the system comprising: a processor-controlled touch-triggered actor; and a processor-controlled touch-triggered oral presenter.

Abstract: A secured computerized system comprising a computerized environment secured to prevent access thereto, other than by end-users who have passed a what-you-know authentication test: what-you-know testing functionality for administering a what-you-know user authentication test to end-user/s, including presenting image/s to end-user, and approving end-user to enter the computerized environment if end-user correctly selects predetermined location/s within the image; and a graphic what-you-know test-configuring functionality for displaying system-selected location/s within the image; providing a graphic interface operative for accepting, from, end-user/s, a user-selected modification of system-selected location/s; and storing, for each individual end-user, the user-selected modification as the individual end-user's predetermined location/s; or if no user-selected modification exists for an individual end-user, storing the system-selected location as the individual end-user's predetermined location.

Abstract: Computerized system operative to perform selectable system-actions responsive to user input, the system being accessible to non-literate users via a touch screen defining touch screen locations respectively corresponding to the selectable system-actions, the touch screen being operative to detect and distinguish between first and second gestures, the system comprising a processor-controlled touch-triggered actor which, responsive to at least each first gesture applied by end-user to an individual location within the touch screen, from among plural touch screen locations, performs individual action/s which corresponds to the individual location; and a processor-controlled touch-triggered oral presenter which, responsive to at least each second gesture applied by end-user to an individual location within the touch screen, from among the plural touch screen locations, presents an oral characterization of individual action/s which corresponds to said individual location.

Abstract: A secured computerized social networking system for pupils including a mail server operative to interface with a secured parent environment; and a secured pupil environment, the system comprising a computerized environment secured to prevent access thereto, other than by end-users who have passed a what-you-know authentication test; a what-you-know testing functionality; and a graphic what-you-know test-configuring functionality, the system being operative to perform a plurality of selectable system-actions responsive to user input, the system being accessible to non-literate users via a touch screen defining a plurality of touch screen locations respectively corresponding to the plurality of selectable system-actions, the touch screen being operative to detect and distinguish between first and second gestures, the system comprising: a processor-controlled touch-triggered actor; and a processor-controlled touch-triggered oral presenter.

Abstract: A mail server operative to communicate with external recipients via a gateway to external communication network/s; and to communicate with internal recipient/s including pupil end-users via an internal secured network. Associations between individual parents who are nodes in external communication network/s and pupil end-users; and white-lists of authorized communicants for individual pupil end-users, are stored. A whitelist provided to memory for a first pupil end-user includes a second pupil, if and only if the first and second pupils' parents have both, via respective parent user-interfaces, authorized communication between the first and second pupils.

Abstract: A mail server operative to communicate with external recipients via a gateway to external communication network/s; and to communicate with internal recipient/s including pupil end-users via an internal secured network. Associations between individual parents who are nodes in external communication network/s and pupil end-users; and white-lists of authorized communicants for individual pupil end-users, are stored. A whitelist provided to memory for a first pupil end-user includes a second pupil, if and only if the first and second pupils' parents have both, via respective parent user-interfaces, authorized communication between the first and second pupils.

Abstract: A system and apparatus for content delivery to storage. Delivery may be performed according to content types, which may be, for example, content object identifier, a flow of content objects, and store channel levels. Delivery may be performed according to a virtual network defined over a physical network infrastructure and further using peer-to-peer, multicast and/or unicast protocols.

Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for downloading advertisements, storing advertisements on a storage device, selecting advertisements for presentation, and presenting selected advertisements. In some embodiments of the invention, advertisements may be dynamically associated and presented in coordination with content according to predefined parameters, stored information, and other criteria. Advertisement credits may be allocated in exchange for advertisement consumption. Advertisements and other information may be exchanged with remote servers. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, a user's local storage system may be used to create a virtual personal mall comprising one or more virtual personal stores and configured for purchasing products by one or several providers. The virtual personal store and/or virtual personal mall may be organized in virtual shelves. Each virtual shelf may contain a group of products with one or more common properties, for example, books by a certain author and/or published by a certain publisher, and/or supplied by the same virtual personal store provider, etc. The groups may be defined by the virtual personal store provider and/or by the user and/or by a group of users.