Method of transferring data from a sender to a recipient during which a unique account for the recipient is automatically created if the account does not previously exist

A method for providing a secure transfer of data from a sender to a recipient, comprising the steps of:

• transferring said data, including an address of at least one recipient, from said sender to a secure database server located in a network serving said sender;
• causing said secure database server to create a storage location for said addressed recipient, when no storage location previously exists for said recipient;
• causing said secure database server to place data addressed to said recipient into the storage location assigned to said addressed recipient;
• associating said recipient with said storage location via an identifier;
• providing a notification to said addressed recipient of said addressed data being available at said secure database server, along with access information corresponding to said identifier for retrieving said addressed data therefrom;
• transferring said addressed data to said addressed recipient upon a request from said addressed recipient;
• and
• maintaining said storage location and said identifier for subsequent data transfers.

In a network, a method of data transfer comprising the steps of:

• upon a sender request to transfer email from the sender to a recipient, determining if a storage location associated with the recipient exists in the network;
• if no storage location associated with the recipient exists, automatically creating a unique email account for the recipient, the email account including a storage location and an identifier associating the recipient with the storage location;
• storing the email in the storage location;
• and
• maintaining said unique email account for subsequent data transfers.