Patent ID: 6970847

Claim:
A method for controlling a server in order to distribute document folders to receiving devices of recipients, wherein the server is a member of a system that includes at least one sending device, a plurality of servers, and at least one receiving device, said method comprising the steps of: temporarily storing an electronic document folder sent from the sending device, the electronic document folder comprising at least one document; notifying a recipient of the electronic document folder with an indirect reference, the indirect reference including a code to identify the electronic document folder intended for said recipient; selecting a destination server from the plurality of servers based on data provided by said recipient when said recipient wishes to retrieve the electronic document folder, the data including address information of the destination server designated by the recipient, wherein the destination server can be accessed from the receiving device of the recipient; and accumulating the temporarily stored electronic document folder at the destination server selected in said selecting step, wherein the receiving device of the recipient can retrieve the accumulated electronic document folder from the destination server via a network based on the code included in the indirect reference, the code being used to identify the electronic document folder intended for said recipient.