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Broadband certified mail

  • US 9,225,528 B2
  • Filed: 03/05/2014
  • Issued: 12/29/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for providing a certification service for electronic multimedia messages sent from an originating equipment to a destination equipment, comprising:

  • by a certified message service server, transmitting to the destination equipment an electronic file comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by a processor of the destination equipment, cause the processor of the destination equipment to execute operations comprising;

    compiling a stream of digitized information packets received from the originating equipment into a message;

    electronically signing the message using a private cryptography key held by a user of the destination equipment to indicate that the user received the digitized information packets; and

    sending the electronically signed message to the originating equipment;

    by the certified message service server, generating a certificate identifying the user of the destination equipment; and

    sending the certificate to the destination equipment;

    wherein the computer readable instructions further cause the processor of the destination equipment to send the certificate to the originating equipment together with the electronically signed message.

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