Network communication system provides users capabilities to perform initial registration simplied connection procedures and access multiple host systems without repeation a full registration

Claim 1

A network communication system comprising: a plurality of configurations of user stations, each station comprising respective processing and display means, and a plurality of service provider host systems coupled via a data network, wherein at least some of the user stations are registered as client stations with a first service provider host system, said first host system including storage means maintaining a database of registered client station user identification data, so that each client station of a single user is arranged to access content from said plurality of service provider host systems via said first host system without repeating a full registration process to each of said plurality of service provider host systems, and said first host system is arranged to format data to be sent to any client station of said single user according to a pre-stored format for that user; and wherein said single user has a simplified connection (SC) means to initially perform the registration process of a client station and to update any information subsequent to registration.