Patent ID: 7143175

Claim:
A system for interchanging documents between a sender computer associated with a sending party, a server, and a receiver computer associated with a receiving party, comprising: a selecting mechanism, wherein the selecting mechanism selects the receiving party as an intended recipient of a document and wherein the receiving party has an identifier associated therewith; a security mechanism, wherein the security mechanism adds a security designation to the identifier; a sender computer storage mechanism, wherein the sender computer storage mechanism stores at least one of the documents; a server storage mechanism; an uploading mechanism, wherein the uploading mechanism uploads the document stored in the sender computer storage mechanism into the server storage mechanism as an uploaded document and wherein the uploaded document is uploaded to the server storage mechanism based upon the security designation; a notification message issuing mechanism, wherein the notification message issuing mechanism issues a notification message from the server to the intended recipient, the notification message indicating that the uploaded document is available in the server storage mechanism; and a viewing mechanism operatively communicating with the receiver computer, wherein the viewing mechanism provides the intended recipient a view of the uploaded document upon the issuance by the receiver computer of a view request to the server; wherein the viewing mechanism is responsive to the uploaded document such that the intended recipient is, based upon the security designation, permitted to view at least one document selected from a plurality of documents; and wherein the plurality of documents are grouped together as a subset of all of a larger number of documents uploaded to the server storage mechanism.