Methods and apparatus for providing access to content
AssigneeElectronics for Imaging, Inc.
InventorsMichael Robinson, Josef Coetsee
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus are provided for providing access to content via messaging services, such as email, voicemail, instant messaging, text messaging, or other similar messaging services. A content server is provided that includes a user interface, a web server and a file. The web server includes a web page for accessing the file. A user provides user information associated with a messaging address via the user interface, and the content server then sends a message including the web address of the web page to the messaging address. The user may then retrieve the message at a client computer, and may then download the file to the client computer by entering the web address into a web browser on the client computer.
Claims41
A system comprising:
- a content server comprising a user interface, a web server and a file, the content server coupled to a message sender, the web server comprising a web page adapted to access the file, the web page having a web address;
- wherein the user interface is adapted to receive user information associated with a messaging address from a user, and the content server is adapted to cause message sender to send a message that includes the web address to the messaging address.
A method comprising:
- receiving user information associated with a messaging address from a user via a user interface at a content server, the content server comprising a web server and a file, the web server comprising a web page adapted to access the file, the web page having a web address;
- sending a message that includes the web address to the messaging address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.