Patent ID: 8819123

Claim:
A method, implemented by a server computing system programmed to perform the following, the method comprising: receiving an unauthenticated request to transfer a web document; ignoring the unauthenticated request to transfer the web document, wherein the ignoring comprises preventing receiving, converting, identifying and sending of the web document; receiving an authentication request from a document transfer agent to authenticate a user of a client computing system; automatically authorizing receiving, converting, identifying and sending of web documents when the user is authenticated in response to the authentication request; receiving, after the authentication request, a request from the document transfer agent installed in connection with a browser running on the client computing system to transfer a web document that is currently open on the browser to a user device for subsequent viewing on the user device, wherein the request is sent from the document transfer agent in response to activation of a graphical user interface (GUI) element displayed in connection with the browser on the client computing system; determining whether a user of the client computing system is authenticated with the server computing system; in response to the request, performing the following operations without additional user interaction at the client computing system to transfer the web document that is currently open on the browser to the user device when the user is authenticated with the server computing system and the GUI element is activated: receiving the web document that is currently open on the browser from the client computing system in connection with the request; converting a first format type of the web document into a second format type that is compatible with the user device for the subsequent viewing of the web document on the user device in the second format type; identifying the user device in view of the authentication of the user with the server computing system; and sending the converted web document to the identified user device over a cellular network for the subsequent viewing on the user device.