US 8,914,898 B2 · Electronically implemented method and system for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network

Abstract

The invention provides a method and system of authentication and online sharing of documents by electronic means, through a third party, conducted via a communication network. The method involves, creation of a website, subject to the control of an administration entity; uploading the scanned version of the original document by the user at the allotted location in the website, using the obtained user name and created password; assigning a uniquely identifiable indicia to the scanned document; sending the scanned document to the authenticating entity; accessesing and verifying the authenticity of scanned document by the authenticating entity, by comparison with the original document available in the database of the authenticating entity. The authentication is performed through an electronically simple mechanism only once, in which, irrespective of the date of issue of the document, the document may be attested and the record may be maintained permanently.

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Dependent claims

An electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of a document via a communication network, comprising the steps of:

(i) uploading a scanned version of an original document at an allotted location accessible using the communication network, the allotted location being a specific location on a website of an administrative entity related to a user account;
(ii) allotting a unique document identification indicia to the uploaded original document by which the uploaded original document is uniquely identifiable to an administration entity;
(iii) communicating the uploaded and the scanned version of the original document to an authenticating entity, which is capable of authentication of the scanned document, the authenticating entity being an entity that issued the original document;
(iv) verifying the scanned version of the original document, the verification including comparison of the scanned version with the original document available with the authenticating entity either in its database or as a physical copy;
(v) authenticating the verified document, and
(vi) sharing the authenticated document via the communication network.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Electronically implemented method and system for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network

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Electronically implemented method and system for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network

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