Patent ID: 7979434

Claim:
A method implemented by a server for retrieving and storing digital documents over a network, the method comprising: receiving over the network digital documents associated with a physical file folder, the digital documents originally being created using a document composition program; assigning a document identification code to each of the digital documents; receiving over the network an identifier associated with the physical file folder; accessing the digital documents associated with the physical file folder using the received identifier; presenting a list of the digital documents to a first user; enabling the user to access and edit at least one digital document of the presented list; and saving the at least one accessed and edited digital document; wherein the document composition program enables the user to edit the at least one digital document of the presented list and includes a plug-in for transmitting the edited at least one digital document from a user terminal to the server; and wherein the identifier comprises information identifying the subject matter of the digital documents associated with the physical file folder and information identifying the location of the digital documents in a database.