Patent ID: 7895313

Claim:
A method for receiving and storing a message addressed to an intended recipient and for delivering the message to a client computer that has a graphical user interface, comprising: receiving the message; storing the message in a restricted-access message storage area associated with the intended recipient; receiving, at a hyper-text transfer protocol daemon, a first request from the client computer, and forwarding the first request to a network server, wherein the first request is a request to access the restricted-access message storage area; receiving, at the hyper-text transfer protocol daemon, a second request from the client computer, and forwarding the second request to the network server, wherein the second request is a request for the message; forwarding at least a part of the message from the network server to the hyper-text transfer protocol daemon; and transmitting at least part of the message from the hyper-text transfer protocol daemon to the client computer; wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting a mark-up language file to an application program executing on the client computer, and wherein the application program generates a mailbox user interface in response to the mark-up language file, the mailbox user interface comprising a link to the message in the restricted-access message storage area.