BigPatents India

A system (100) is provided for rating multimedia content streamed over a data network as a series of data frames, segments, or packets and for administering display of the rated content. The system includes at least one content source device (107, 122,130) for creating raw multimedia content; an intermediate content marking and delivery agent (101,102,103, 104) for marking and delivering the content created; and a content receiving device (111, 112, 120, 126, 127) for displaying or rejecting delivered content according to the detection of and comparison of .segment markings applied to at least one preset value. In one aspect, the content marking follows some existing or devised rating system and whereupon the marked content is identifiable at the receiving end for each received data frame, or data packet carrying content in a payload.