Patent Document ID: 9935905
Application ID: 15018528
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of restricting the distribution of an image attachment to an electronic message sent by a sender to a recipient via an electronic communications network, the method comprising: receiving, via the electronic communications network, the electronic message at a server from the sender; removing, via the server, the image attachment from the electronic message; fragmenting, via the server, the image attachment into at least two different image parts; creating, via the server, a set of rendering instructions as to how the at least two different image parts should be displayed together to represent the image attachment; posting, by the server, the at least two different image parts to a web server; and forwarding the electronic message and the set of rendering instructions to the recipient, wherein the set of rendering instructions allows the recipient to reconstitute the image attachment by displaying the at least two different image parts together via the web server.