Patent ID: 11956200
Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for distributing emails to a group of personal computers that communicate with each other over a network, the group of personal computers including an identified personal computer and a first personal computer, the method comprising:
receiving, at a server, a set of non-confidential emails addressed to at least one computer in the group;
receiving, at the server, at least one confidential email intended for delivery to the first personal computer;
sending, by the server, the at least one confidential email directly to the first personal computer when the first personal computer logs onto the network;
identifying, by the server, an identified personal computer among the group of personal computers that accesses an email account before any other computer in the group of personal computers;
distributing, by the server, the set of non-confidential emails to the identified personal computer, the server also sending instructions for the identified personal computer to distribute the set of non-confidential emails using the network to each of the addressees of the multiple-recipient emails after each such addressee logs in to the network; and
wherein the identified personal computer precludes a user of the identified personal computer from accessing any of the non-confidential emails that do not list the user as an addressee.