Gesture based electronic signature

An apparatus comprising:

• a processor and a memory, the processor configured to execute a business process management application by executing business processes;
• at least one business process configured to:
• determine an action of a business process to be completed at a remote device instead of at a device within a local business process context, the business process executed within the local business process context, and wherein the remote device lacks direct computational access to the local business process context;
• generate a context identifier, the context identifier corresponding to the business process context and the action, and
• generate an email and append the context identifier to the email, the email configured to request approval for an requested action of the business process;
• a network interface configured to:
• transmit the email to the remote device, and
• receive a reply to the email, the reply including the context identifier and a gesture-based signature, the reply comprising a reply email indicating approval of the requested action;
• and
• a repository having information for correlating, using the context identifier and the gesture-based signature, the received reply with the email,
• the business process management application further configured to mark the action complete.

A computer program on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded as a set of processor based instructions that, upon execution by a processor, cause the processor to:

• determine an action of a business process to be completed at a remote device instead of at a device within a local business process context, the business process executed within the local business process context, and wherein the remote device lacks direct computational access to the local business process context
• generate a context identifier, the context identifier corresponding to the a-business process context and the action;
• generate an email and append the context identifier to the email, the email configured to request approval for an requested action of the business process;
• transmit the email to the remote device;
• receive a reply to the email, the reply including the context identifier and a gesture-based signature, the reply comprising a reply email indicating approval of the requested action;
• correlate, using the context identifier and the gesture-based signature, the received reply with the email and a business process that initiated the email;
• and
• mark the action complete.