A Content Provider Secure and Traceable Portal (CPSTP) facilitate secure
content delivery and accounting for controlled and uncontrolled contents
and for small to large content providers. The CPSTP defines security and
non-repudiation of users, a secure environment for electronic signature,
and trace-ability functions that are critical for commercial and
financial transactions of e-Business contents on the integrated optical
and wireless Internet. The CPSTP apparatus and functions facilitate and
support the rapid growth in commercial and financial transactions for all
wireless and wire-line devices capable of communicating on the Internet.
The CPSTP functions may be used to provide secure and traceable
end-to-end connections over the integrated optical and wireless Internet
for all types of content configurations, including Business-to-Consumer
(B2C), Business-to-Business (B2B), Consumer-to-Business (C2B), and
Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C). The CPSTP couples security and trace
functionality in provider's networks and traceability function is
originated in the network to tag with the content as it traverse the path
to the requested device.