Patent ID: 7184573

Claim:
An apparatus for recording information, comprising: a capture device for capturing the information; a local verification device for indelibly marking the captured information with a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, and a representation of the location information defining the location of said capture device at the time of capture of the information, such that said representation of the date, time and location information becomes a portion of the captured information as bound captured information; an associating device for placing the bound captured information in combination with owner information identifying the creator and owner of the bound captured information in a predefined secure transmission file formatted to be uniquely recognized by a secure storage facility; a transmitter for transmitting the secure transmission file to the secure storage facility, wherein the secure storage facility is operable to store bound captured information in association with the creator and owner of the bound captured information in such a manner that the transmitted secure transmission file is searchable at the secure storage facility by predetermined search parameters; and the secure storage facility generating an acknowledgment of the receipt of the transmitted secure transmission file to the secure storage facility, wherein the acknowledgment has associated therewith at least a portion of the information contained within the transmitted secure transmission file.