Patent ID: 8549280

Claim:
A method of securely transferring data from two or more non-subscribers to a subscriber or a subscriber-defined destination, communicatively linked by a network, the method comprising: providing access, to at least one of the two or more non-subscribers, to a predetermined network location indicator; establishing a private data transfer conduit accessible via the network location indicator and configured to accept data received from the at least one of the two or more non-subscribers; transforming data received by the private data transfer conduit into secured data; and transferring the secured data via the network to the subscriber or subscriber-defined destination, wherein providing access to the at least one of the two or more non-subscribers to a predetermined network location indicator comprises: receiving a private data transfer conduit request from the subscriber, the private data transfer conduit request comprising information relating to the at least one of the two or more non-subscribers; and sending a private data transfer conduit notification to the at least one of the two or more non-subscribers, the private data transfer conduit notification comprising the predetermined network location indicator; the method further comprising: sending a second private data transfer conduit notification to a second at least one of the two or more non-subscribers, the second private data transfer conduit notification comprising a second network location indicator; establishing a second private data transfer conduit accessible via the second network location indicator and configured to accept data received from the second at least one of the two or more non-subscribers; transforming data received by the second private data transfer conduit into second secured data; and transferring the second secured data via the network to the subscriber or subscriber-defined destination.