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System and method for document driven actions

  • US 10,037,322 B2
  • Filed: 11/21/2016
  • Issued: 07/31/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for document driven actions, comprising:

  • maintaining a set of document signatures electronically generated from electronic documents tracked by a document tracking system and a set of associated actions, each action in the set of associated actions associated with at least one document signature in the set of document signatures;

    at a monitoring module at a client computing device, detecting a request to access an electronic document at the client device;

    generating, at the monitoring module, a document signature for the electronic document;

    communicating the electronic document signature to the document tracking system;

    receiving, at the document tracking system from the client computing device over a network, the document signature for the electronic document;

    determining, at the document tracking system, that the received document signature matches one of the set of signatures;

    determining, at the document tracking system, an action associated with the received document signature;

    sending a message over the network from the document tracking system to the monitoring module, the message including information about the determined action;

    receiving the message at the monitoring module specifying the determined action; and

    in response to receiving the message, automatically performing the action at the monitoring module.

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