Patent ID: 8739301

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of establishing an online library of digital items on a server computer system S which is connected to the Internet, the method comprising the following steps executed by the server computer system S: establishing an account for a first user with the server computer system S; allocating storage space to store one or more digital items in the first user's account; receiving in one or more packets from a server computer W a digital item D for storage in the first user's account, identifying information for the first user's account, and authorization to store the digital item D in the first user's account; and storing the digital item D in the first user's account, wherein the server computer W having received a request from a client computer C to send one or more selected digital items to the server computer system S, the request accompanying the first user's identification information and authorization to store the digital item in the first user's account; and wherein the server computer system S and the client computer C are on different networks, the server computer system S having been configured to store for each of a plurality of users a plurality of digital items in storage spaces allocated in association with the respective users' accounts, the server computer system S having been further configured to permit access to digital items stored in each of said user accounts with authorized parties.