Patent ID: 8756676

Claim:
A system for providing a secure response to a first party, comprising: a receiving component, executed by a server, for receiving a first submission from the unauthenticated first party and a response thereto by a second party, wherein the first submission is directed to the second party and includes an identifier associated with the first submission, and wherein the first party is not authenticated or registered with the second party when the first submission is received; a data storage medium for storing the response by the second party for later retrieval by the first party or the second party; a transmitting component, executed by a server, for sending a notification to the unauthenticated first party, wherein the notification provides information for securely accessing the response; and an authentication component, executed by a server, for correlating a second submission from the unauthenticated first party to the identifier provided in the first submission and permitting the first party to securely access the response from the second party upon authentication of the first party, wherein the first party cannot access the stored response until the first party is authenticated via the notification to the first party.