Patent ID: 8457284

Claim:
Method for asynchronous communication through an internet platform in which registered users of the internet platform can receive mail, whereby the mail is transmitted in an electronic form through the internet and the internet platform, at least on part of its mailing route, wherein one of several presettable transmission paths is preset by the users on the internet platform, including at least the transmission of the mail as a letter, as telefax and as email, and that the transmission of the mail from the internet platform to the users is performed or initiated corresponding to the particular preset transmission path, the method further including checking as to whether the mail received at the internet platform originates from other users of the internet platform or from nonusers, wherein the mail originating from other users of the internet platform is authenticated by insertion of a test code produced from the content of the mail and by comparing the test code with a reference code produced by a recipient in the same way.