METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERCHANGING DOCUMENTS BETWEEN A SENDER COMPUTER, A SERVER AND A RECEIVER COMPUTER
First Claim
1. A method for storing, accessing and interchanging voluminous confidential documents for review by a plurality of parties and for notifying selected ones of a plurality of receiving computers generally operated by unrelated business organizations of receipt by a predetermined host server of such electronic documents from a sender computer for review, wherein the documents are reviewable by each respective receiving computer over a global communications network, the sender computer and the receiving computers each being registered in the host server, the method comprising the steps of:
- selecting one or more of the plurality of receiver computers to which selected documents are to be reviewed over the global communications network are addressed;
storing the respective documents in a first database that is local relative to the sender computer;
replicating the documents stored in the first database in a second database that is local relative to the predetermined server;
issuing a respective notification message from the predetermined server to the selected receiver computers, each respective notification message indicating replicated documents available in the second database for their respective retrieval over the global communications network; and
retrieving the replicated documents in the second database by the selected receiver computers over the global communications network upon a respective user of the selected receiver computers issuing a respective download command signal to the predetermined server.
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Abstract
A method for storing, accessing and interchanging voluminous confidential documents for review by a plurality of parties and for notifying selected ones of a plurality of receiving computers generally operated by unrelated business organizations of receipt by a predetermined host server of such electronic documents from a sender computer for review. The documents are reviewable by each respective receiving computer over a global communications network. The sender computer and the receiving computers are registered in the host server. The method comprises selecting one or more of the plurality of receiver computers to which selected documents are to be reviewed over the global communications network are addressed, storing the respective documents in a first database that is local relative to the sender computer, replicating the documents stored in the first database in a second database that is local relative to the predetermined server, issuing a respective notification message from the predetermined server to the selected receiver computers, each respective notification message indicating replicated documents available in the second database for their respective retrieval over the global communications network, and retrieving the replicated documents in the second database by the selected receiver computers over the global communications network upon a respective user of the selected receiver computers issuing a respective download command signal to the predetermined server.
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11 Claims
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1. A method for storing, accessing and interchanging voluminous confidential documents for review by a plurality of parties and for notifying selected ones of a plurality of receiving computers generally operated by unrelated business organizations of receipt by a predetermined host server of such electronic documents from a sender computer for review, wherein the documents are reviewable by each respective receiving computer over a global communications network, the sender computer and the receiving computers each being registered in the host server, the method comprising the steps of:
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selecting one or more of the plurality of receiver computers to which selected documents are to be reviewed over the global communications network are addressed;
storing the respective documents in a first database that is local relative to the sender computer;
replicating the documents stored in the first database in a second database that is local relative to the predetermined server;
issuing a respective notification message from the predetermined server to the selected receiver computers, each respective notification message indicating replicated documents available in the second database for their respective retrieval over the global communications network; and
retrieving the replicated documents in the second database by the selected receiver computers over the global communications network upon a respective user of the selected receiver computers issuing a respective download command signal to the predetermined server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A computer communications system for notifying a plurality of receiving computers generally operated by unrelated business organizations of receipt by a predetermined host server of respective electronic documents from a sender computer, the respective documents to be retrieved by each respective receiving computer over a global communications network, the sender computer and the receiving computers being registered in the host server and each being interconnectable to the host server through the global communications network, the computer communication system comprising:
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means for designating one or more of the plurality of receiver computers to which the respective documents to be retrieved over the global communications network are addressed;
means for establishing a secure communication protocol between the sender computer and the host server and for using the secure protocol for transmitting the documents to the host server;
means for storing the respective documents in a database that is local relative to the host server;
means for issuing a respective notification message from the host server to each designated receiver computer, each respective notification message indicating documents available in the database for their respective retrieval over the global communications network;
means for establishing another secure communications protocol between the host server and each receiver computer; and
means for retrieving the documents in the database by each designated receiver computer over the global communications network using the another secure protocol upon a respective user of each receiver computer issuing a respective download command signal to the host server. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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