Patent ID: 8341023

Claim:
An email certification system, comprising: a first demanding party having an accessible first demanding party database and executing at least one first demanding party application for performing the functions of: receiving a copy of an email having at least one recipient electronic-delivery address associated therewith for transmitting said email to at least one recipient and having a first demanding party address associated therewith for transmitting said email copy to said first demanding party; wherein receipt of said email copy by said first demanding party comprises a solicitation for a time stamp; preparing said email copy to produce conduit-input data, wherein said conduit-input data comprise data associated with said email copy; associating said conduit-input data with said at least one request call, wherein said at least one request call comprises a time-stamp request call; transmitting said conduit-input data and said at least one request call; and a web services time-stamp conduit having an accessible time-stamp conduit database and executing at least one application for performing the functions of: receiving said at least one request call; receiving said conduit-input data; acting upon said at least one request call; outputting output data associated with said at least one request call; wherein said web services time-stamp conduit obtains said time stamp in response to said time-stamp request call; and wherein said output data associated with said time-stamp request call comprise said time stamp.