Systems and methods for remotely witnessing and electronically notarizing a legal instrument

A system for creating a computer file having a notarized electronic instrument, the system comprising a notary computing device remote from a signing party and comprising a processor on the notary computing device configured to:

• receive, via a network, at the notary computing device, an electronic document and a media file comprising a signer video feed synchronized with an animation feed,
• wherein the signer video feed comprises a first timestamp and a face of the signing party during at least a beginning and an end of the signing party signing the electronic document,
• wherein the animation feed comprises a second timestamp and a signature of the signing party as the signature is being applied by the signing party to a signature block of the electronic document, and
• wherein the signer video feed comprising the signing party signing the electronic document is synchronized with the animation feed comprising the signature of the signing party being applied to the signature block of the electronic document using the first timestamp of the signer video feed and the second timestamp of the animation feed;
• display, by the notary computing device or a display device connected to the notary computing device, the signer video feed and the animation feed;
• execute a notarization module configured to tag, based on the media file, a notarization token associated with a notary to the electronic document,
• wherein the notarization token includes applying a digital watermark and a hash to the electronic document in response to a notary command;
• and
• transmit to a computer remote from a signing party and remote from the notary computing device, the tagged electronic document, wherein the tagged electronic document is stored by the computer.

A computer implemented method of remotely notarizing instruments, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a notary computing device remote from a signing party using a network, a real-time data transmission comprising:
• a continuously transmitted signer video feed capturing a face of a signing party;
• and
• a signature feed capturing a view of a signature block of an electronic document stored in a computer file,
• wherein the signer video feed and signature feed are synchronized;
• displaying, by the notary computing device or a display device connected to the notary computing device, the signer video feed and the signature feed;
• receiving, by the notary computing device, the electronic document;
• executing, by the notary computing device, a notarization module configured to tag a notarizing token associated with a notary to the electronic document,
• wherein the notarizing token includes applying a digital watermark and a hash to the electronic document in response to a notary command;
• transmitting, by the notary computing device to a computer remote from a signing party and remote from the notary computing device, the tagged electronic document, wherein the tagged electronic document is stored by the computer;
• transmitting, by the notary computing device a notary video feed capturing the notary applying a signature to the electronic document, wherein the notary video feed is captured by a camera associated with the notary computing device;
• generating, by the notary computing device, a multimedia file comprising a notary video feed capturing the notary applying a signature to the electronic document, wherein the notary video feed is captured by a camera associated with the notary computing device;
• and
• communicating, by a notary computing device, the generated multimedia file to a central computing device wherein the central computing device is configured to aggregate a plurality of video feeds received from a plurality of signer computing devices into a composite video.