Patent ID: 6898636

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: selecting means for selecting the receiving party as an intended recipient of a document, wherein the receiving party has an identifier associated therewith; adding means for adding a security designation to the identifier; sender computer storage means for storing one of the documents; server storage means; first uploading means for uploading the document stored in the sender computer storage means into the server storage means as an uploaded document, wherein the uploaded document is uploaded to the server storage means based upon the security designation; notification message issuing means for issuing a notification message from the server to the intended recipient, the notification message indicating that the uploaded document is available in the server storage means; and downloading means for downloading the document from the server storage means-into a receiver computer storage means upon the issuance by the receiver computer of a download command signal to the server.