Patent ID: 6968388

Claim:
A method in the transmission in a data communications network, particularly Internet, of arbitrarily formatted files comprising one or more different data types, between a sender comprising a data-processing device connected to the data communications network, wherein the sender represents an information provider, and one or more receivers with respective data-processing devices connected with the data communications network, wherein each receiver represents a user, wherein the transmission takes place via a dedicated server provided in or assigned to the data communications network, wherein files which shall be transmitted are stored in a database at the sender or in a database accessible from the sender and which, for the transmission that substantially takes place transparently for both sender and receiver, are downloaded to the data-processing device of the sender, and wherein the method comprises processing a file specifically for one or more users with user specific application software for one or more user specific applications under determined conditions, a specific processing with the user specific application software taking place consecutively in a data processing device of the server during the transmission and/or consecutively in the data-processing device of the receiver as the file is received and/or in the data-processing device of the receiver after the file has been received; and performing the specific processing with the user specific application software which is stored in one or more of the following: the sender, the server or the receiver, and, as required, is transmitted before or in phase with the processing to an actual processing location.