Patent ID: 9483654
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of storing and controlling access to electronic documents, comprising: providing a system having an interface and an electronic storage element, wherein the system is configured to allow a client access via the interface to add electronic documents to be associated with the client and stored in the electronic storage element, wherein the system is configured to: wherein the system is configured to allow the client: wherein the system is configured to: wherein the system is configured such that when at least one electronic document to be associated with the client and stored in the electronic storage element is added by the client, and when at least one electronic document to be associated with the client and stored in the electronic storage element is added by persons and/or entities other than the client, adding at least one electronic document to be associated with the client and stored in the electronic storage element; storing the at least one electronic document associated with the client in the electronic storage element, wherein the at least one electronic document to be associated with the client and stored in the electronic storage element is automatically associated with the client and stored in the electronic storage element upon adding the at least one electronic document to be associated with the client and stored in the electronic storage element; receiving via the interface the first control information, specifying: allowing the first at least one type of access via the interface by the first one or more person and/or entity other than the client, to the first one or more electronic documents of the at least one electronic document associated with the client and stored in the electronic storage element, upon receiving via the interface the first control information specifying the first one or more person and/or entity, the first one or more of the at least one electronic document associated with the client and stored in the electronic storage element, and the first at least one type of access via the interface, wherein the first control information causes the system to allow the first at least one type of access via the interface, by the first one or more person and/or entity other than the client, to the first one or more of the at least one electronic document associated with the client and stored in the electronic storage element, wherein the system denies access via the interface to the first one or more of the at least one electronic document associated with the client and stored in the electronic storage element by persons and entities other than: wherein the system denies types of access via the interface, other than the first at least one type of access via the interface, to the first one or more of the at least one electronic document associated with the client and stored in the electronic storage element by the first one or more person and/or entity other than the client, and wherein the client and the first one or more person and/or entity other than the client interconnect with the system via the interface, wherein receiving via the interface the first control information comprises receiving via the interface the first control information from the client.