Patent ID: 7376652

Claim:
A computer-implemented secure information exchange system comprising: a digital repository, wherein said digital repository is a personal digital repository having a digital lockbox, wherein said digital repository comprises: means for permitting multiple and different authorized suppliers to only push desired information to the digital repository, in which the multiple and different authorized suppliers are humans or machines, and wherein the desired information is specified by the owner of the digital repository as the information to be received by and stored on the digital repository; means for storing the desired information on the digital repository once the desired information has been pushed and accepted as the desired information by the digital repository; means for allowing multiple and different permitted accessors, in which the permitted accessors are humans or machines including the owner of the digital repository, access to the desired information stored on the digital repository; and a plurality of compartments and a means for specifying which of the plurality of compartments is accessible by which of the multiple and different permitted accessors; and means for encrypting the desired information.