Patent ID: 8650256

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving of an electronic message configured for offline consumption by a restrictive presentation system, wherein said offline consumption is expressed as at least one user-specified delivery condition associated with the electronic message; securely conveying the electronic message to at least one computing device of a recipient designated for the electronic message by the restrictive presentation system using a communications network, wherein the at least one computing device is in an online state allowing data exchanges with the restrictive presentation system, wherein a client application of the restrictive presentation system is installed upon the at least one computing device, wherein said client application receives the electronic message from the restrictive presentation system; detecting of a change of a computing device from the online state to an offline state by the client application; in response to user-acceptance, presenting of the electronic message upon the computing device while the computing device is in the offline state by the client application; upon user-termination of the presentation of the electronic message, automatically deleting the electronic message from a storage location of the computing device; and when the computing device returns to the online state, notifying the restrictive presentation system of the offline consumption of the electronic message by the client application.