Patent ID: 7373330

Claim:
A method for allowing a user and a recipient user to securely review content of a document generated by a document publisher and downloaded to a content server accessible to the user, but not to the recipient user, the method comprising: (a) in response to a request from the user, preparing in the content server, an e-mail message that contains a link to the publisher and an identifier for the document, but does not contain the document content; (b) using the content server to send the e-mail message to the recipient user wherein, upon receiving the e-mail, the recipient user logs onto a forwarding server at the document publisher, the forwarding server being different from the content server; (c) receiving and resolving the link at the publisher and downloading from the forwarding server a secure viewer program to the recipient user and an encrypted version of the requested document content to the secure viewer program; (d) requesting a decryption key for the encrypted document from the forwarding server with the secure viewer program; and (e) decrypting the encrypted document content and displaying the document content in the secure viewer program.