Protocol Selection and Enforcement During Remote Online Notarization Session

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising memory with instructions encoded thereon, the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, causing the one or more processors to perform operations, the instructions comprising instructions to:

• receive a request to establish a remote online notarization session;
• identify participants of the remote online notarization session, the participants including at least a signer and a notary;
• identify an envelope to be notarized during the remote online notarization session;
• determine, based on contents of the envelope, parameters of the remote online notarization session;
• select, based on at least one of the participants and the parameters of the remote online notarization session, a protocol to which the remote online notarization session will conform;
• establish the remote online notarization session using the protocol;
• monitor the remote online notarization session;
• based on the monitoring, determine whether, during the remote online notarization session, the protocol was breached by at least one of the signer and the notary prior to signature of the envelope by the signer and notarization;
• responsive to determining that the protocol was breached, re-start the remote online notarization session;
• and
• responsive to determining that the protocol was not breached, validate the remote online notarization session, and outputting a notarized version of the envelope.

A system comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising memory with instructions encoded thereon;
• and
• one or more processors that, when executing the instructions, are caused to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a request to establish a remote online notarization session;
• identifying participants of the remote online notarization session, the participants including at least a signer and a notary;
• identifying an envelope to be notarized during the remote online notarization session;
• determining, based on contents of the envelope, parameters of the remote online notarization session;
• selecting, based on at least one of the participants and the parameters of the remote online notarization session, a protocol to which the remote online notarization session will conform;
• establishing the remote online notarization session using the protocol;
• monitoring the remote online notarization session;
• based on the monitoring, determining whether, during the remote online notarization session, the protocol was breached by at least one of the signer and the notary prior to signature of the envelope by the signer and notarization;
• responsive to determining that the protocol was breached, re-starting the remote online notarization session;
• and
• responsive to determining that the protocol was not breached, validating the remote online notarization session, and outputting a notarized version of the envelope.