Patent ID: 8667053

Claim:
A system for facilitating trusted asynchronous transmission of digital data, comprising: a digital data facilitator coupled to a communication network and having a digital storage device configured to store digital image data received by the digital data facilitator over the communication network from a first device, the digital image data having a first identifier and a second identifier, the digital data facilitator configured to receive a regular query comprising an unsolicited digital request from a second device over the communication network, the digital request comprising the first identifier and the second identifier, wherein the digital data facilitator is further configured to transmit the digital image data and a facilitator identifier verifying the identity of the digital data facilitator to the second device in response to receiving the unsolicited digital request having the first identifier and the second identifier, wherein the facilitator identifier comprises a phone number associated with the digital data facilitator; and an identification system associated with the second device that is configured to verify the facilitator identifier and, in response to a positive verification, to cause the second device to trust the digital data received from the digital data facilitator.