Patent ID: 7209953

Claim:
A system for transmitting a file associated with an email message from an issuer device in a network to a recipient device in the network, the email message and file being generated by the issuer device in response to a request received at the issuer device, the system comprising: a proxy server in the network in communication with the issuer device and the recipient device; transmission software operating on the issuer device having an attachment selection module for generating an attachment identifier related to the file and an email for transmission to the recipient device, said attachment identifier identifying the issuer device, a version of the file and a location in the network for the proxy server, and said email having the attachment identifier attached thereto; and an attachment transmission module for forwarding the version of the file towards the recipient device, in response to a transmission request received from the proxy server; and processing software operating on the proxy server having a request processing module for processing a received request from the recipient device to process the attachment identifier; and an issuer interface module for generating and sending the transmission request to the issuer device in response to the received request, the transmission request providing the attachment identifier to the issuer device.