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US 8,819,440 B2Granted
Directed signature workflow
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsMahmood A. Dhalla, Marcio De Mello
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Abstract
Techniques relating to directed signature workflow of a document are described. In one instance, a process enables a publishing user to populate a body portion of a document with content. The process also allows the publishing user to populate an associated digital signature definitions portion of the document with at least one requested consuming user's name and at least one condition associated with a digital signature of the requested consuming user.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- enabling, by a computing device implementing a digital signature workflow, a publishing user to populate a body portion of a document with content;
- allowing, by the computing device, the publishing user to populate an associated digital signature definitions portion of the document with at least a requested consuming user's name and at least one condition associated with a digital signature of the requested consuming user, the at least one condition associated with the digital signature of the requested consuming user indicating conditional content related to the digital signature of the requested consuming user, the conditional content being included in the digital signature definitions portion of the document;
- blocking at least a certain portion of the body portion when the digital signature definitions portion of the document is presented to the requested consuming user;
- and
- receiving, by the computing device, a digital signature of the publishing user, the digital signature of the publishing user being associated with the digital signature definitions portion of the document.
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A system, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- one or more computer-readable storage media;
- and
- a digital signature definitions component maintained on the computer-readable media and executed on the one or more processors to enable a publishing user to:
- define at least one consuming user to digitally sign a document,
- populate the document with a respective name of the at least one consuming user,
- define at least one condition associated with a digital signature of the at least one consuming user,
- populate the document with the at least one condition associated with the digital signature of the at least one consuming user, and
- void a digital signature of the publishing user upon a determination that the respective name of the at least one consuming user or the at least one condition are altered.
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A memory device comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform acts comprising:
- populating a body portion of an electronic document with content, the electronic document comprising the body portion and a digital signature definitions portion;
- defining a plurality of consuming users to digitally sign the electronic document;
- defining one or more conditions including a predefined intent indicating that at least one consuming user of the plurality of consuming users agrees to terms and conditions associated with the electronic document by digitally signing the electronic document;
- associating the one or more conditions with the respective digital signature of the each of the plurality of consuming users and the content that the body portion of an electronic document is populated with, wherein the one or more conditions associated with at least one of the respective digital signatures is different from the one or more conditions associated with an additional one of the respective digital signatures;
- populating the digital signature definitions portion of the electronic document with a respective identifier of each of the plurality of consuming users, and with the one or more conditions associated with each respective digital signature of the plurality of consuming users and the content that the body portion of an electronic document is populated with;
- and
- transferring the electronic document to a respective computing device of each of the plurality of consuming users.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.