Delivery after charging confirmation of chargeable contents cached in proxy server

摘要

A system for providing content to a user, comprising a plurality of user terminals 10,20, at least one proxy server 30, an accounting server 40 and at least one content server, wherein said accounting server 40 is operable to produce accounting data corresponding to the charge made to the user for receiving cached pay-per-view content, characterised in that said proxy server 30 is operable to confirm that charging for cached pay-per-view content has occurred prior to or after supplying said cached pay-per-view content to one of the user terminals 10,20 of the user that requested the content.