Patent ID: 7958562

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a document access arbiter to securely control user access to a secure document repository; a guest access control mechanism to provide, to guest users, selective access to respective select sets of documents in the secure document repository, a given guest user among the guest users being a user that does not have account holder access to the document repository and that, before a given account holder with account holder access sets up the given guest user to have guest access via a guest setup interface, has no access to the document repository; and the guest setup interface to present, via a computer screen, guest parameter graphical tools to plural account holder users having only non-owner account holder access to the repository, the guest parameter graphical tools being configured to receive via a given one of the non-owner account holders interacting with the computer screen, for the given guest user, guest user identifying information identifying the given guest user and associated access parameters specifying a type of access to be given to the given guest user.