Methods and systems for interchanging documents between a sender computer, a server and a receiver computer
First Claim
1. A system for interchanging documents between a sender computer associated with a sending party, a server, and a receiver computer associated with a receiving party, comprising:
- a selecting mechanism, wherein the selecting mechanism selects the receiving party as an intended recipient of a document and wherein the receiving party has an identifier associated therewith;
a security mechanism, wherein the security mechanism adds a security designation to the identifier;
a sender computer storage mechanism, wherein the sender computer storage mechanism stores at least one of the documents;
a server storage mechanism;
an uploading mechanism, wherein the uploading mechanism uploads the document stored in the sender computer storage mechanism into the server storage mechanism as an uploaded document and wherein the uploaded document is uploaded to the server storage mechanism based upon the security designation;
a notification message issuing mechanism, wherein the notification message issuing mechanism issues a notification message from the server to the intended recipient, the notification message indicating that the uploaded document is available in the server storage mechanism; and
a viewing mechanism operatively communicating with the receiver computer, wherein the viewing mechanism provides the intended recipient a view of the uploaded document upon the issuance by the receiver computer of a view request to the server;
wherein the viewing mechanism is responsive to the uploaded document such that the intended recipient is, based upon the security designation, permitted to view at least one document selected from a plurality of documents; and
wherein the plurality of documents are grouped together as a subset of all of a larger number of documents uploaded to the server storage mechanism.
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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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1. A system for interchanging documents between a sender computer associated with a sending party, a server, and a receiver computer associated with a receiving party, comprising:
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a selecting mechanism, wherein the selecting mechanism selects the receiving party as an intended recipient of a document and wherein the receiving party has an identifier associated therewith; a security mechanism, wherein the security mechanism adds a security designation to the identifier; a sender computer storage mechanism, wherein the sender computer storage mechanism stores at least one of the documents; a server storage mechanism; an uploading mechanism, wherein the uploading mechanism uploads the document stored in the sender computer storage mechanism into the server storage mechanism as an uploaded document and wherein the uploaded document is uploaded to the server storage mechanism based upon the security designation; a notification message issuing mechanism, wherein the notification message issuing mechanism issues a notification message from the server to the intended recipient, the notification message indicating that the uploaded document is available in the server storage mechanism; and a viewing mechanism operatively communicating with the receiver computer, wherein the viewing mechanism provides the intended recipient a view of the uploaded document upon the issuance by the receiver computer of a view request to the server; wherein the viewing mechanism is responsive to the uploaded document such that the intended recipient is, based upon the security designation, permitted to view at least one document selected from a plurality of documents; and wherein the plurality of documents are grouped together as a subset of all of a larger number of documents uploaded to the server storage mechanism. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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