Patent ID: 8117274

Claim:
A method of transferring one or more electronic files between a first system at a first location and at least one receiving system remote from the first system in a communication network, comprising: establishing a sending storage area in a memory of the first system, the sending storage area including at least one sub-area for storing a file that is to be transferred to a corresponding one of the at least one receiving system; establishing at least one post-sending storage area in the memory; preparing in the memory at least one electronic file for transfer to the at least one receiving system; requesting the at least one receiving system to create and open a new file name using the file name of the file to be transferred and adding a tmp extension identifying the new file as temporary (tmp); moving the at least one prepared electronic file into one of the at least one subareas of the sending storage area; transferring the at least one prepared electronic file to a receive storage area of the at least one receiving system by way of a copy operation; the first system maintaining control over the new file with the tmp extension; receiving a first message from the at least one receiving system indicating whether the transfer of the new file with the tmp extension was successful; transferring a second message from the first system to the at least one receiving system when a received first message includes an indication of successful transfer, the second message including instructions to remove the tmp extension; and moving the prepared electronic file from the sending storage area to the at least one post-sending area when a received first message includes an indication of successful transfer.