Patent ID: 7827603

Claim:
A method for providing a secure response to a first party, comprising the steps of: receiving, by a server, a first submission from the first party over a communications network, wherein the first submission is directed to a second party and includes an identifier associated with the first submission, and wherein the first party is not authenticated or registered with the second party; receiving, by a server, a response to the first submission from the second party; storing, by a server, the response for later retrieval by the first party or the second party; sending, by a server, a notification to the first party, wherein the notification provides information for securely accessing the response; receiving, by a server, a second submission from the first party wherein the second submission comprises information for correlation to the identifier provided in the first submission; authenticating, by a server, the first party; and permitting, by a server, the first party to securely access the response from the second party, wherein the first party cannot access the stored response until the first party is authenticated via the notification to the first party.