Patent ID: 8769652

Claim:
A computer-based method for registering a user at a server computer system, comprising: registering access to registered-user website content by: transmitting a first interface from the server computer system to a user computer system, the first interface having a field for entering a mobile telephone number; receiving a mobile phone number entered into the field for the mobile phone number from the user computer system at the server computer system; generating a password in response to receiving the mobile phone number; transmitting the password from the server computer system to a mobile device having the mobile phone number received from the user computer system; transmitting a second interface from the server computer system to the user computer system in conjunction with at least one of generating the password and transmitting the password to the mobile device, the second interface including a field for entering the password; receiving the password from one of the user computer system via the second interface to complete the registering access to the registered-user website content by the user computer system if the password is received within a predetermined period of time and, if the predetermined period of time has elapsed, from the mobile device to complete the registering access to the registered-user website content by the mobile device in response to the server computer system receiving a request from the mobile device for completing registration therewith; providing access to the registered-user website content by the user computer in response to receiving the password from the user computer when performing the registering access to registered-user website content and by the mobile device in response to receiving the password from the mobile device when performing the registering access to registered-user website content; wherein the transmitting the file access message to the mobile device further comprises transmitting an SMS message, and wherein the file access message includes a link that is selectable on the mobile device, selection of the link causing a signal to be sent from the mobile device to the server computer system.