Method and system for formation of electronic documents
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1. A server machine configured to produce a customized legal document, said server machine couples to a network, said server machine comprising:
- a memory that stores expert processes; and
at least one processor configured to;
receive, from a local machine via the network, a customization request to customize a selected document template for a legal document at said server machine;
retrieve an interview question set for the selected document template, the interview question set being retrieved from a group of question sets that are predetermined and the interview question set being retrieved is associated with the selected document template;
send the interview question set to the local machine via the network where questions from the interview question set are able to be presented via the local machine;
receive, from the local machine via the network, answers to the questions of the interview question set;
perform one or more of the expert processes to produce a customized legal document based on the selected document template and the answers to the questions of the interview question set, the expert processes are implemented by computer program code which when performed controls content and verbiage of at least a portion of the customized legal document being produced, the customized legal document being an electronic document; and
after the customized legal document has been produced, electronically transmit the customized legal document to the local machine or other machine via the network,wherein the selected document template is used at said server machine to produce the customized legal document, and wherein the customized legal document is electronically transmitted to the local machine or other machine after the answers to the questions of the interview question set for the selected document template have been received at said server machine.
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Abstract
A method and system for creation of customized documents over a network as well as for negotiation of contents for documents over a network (e.g., Internet) are disclosed. In one aspect, professional documents can be created in an automated manner. In another aspect, negotiation of documents (or their contents) can be performed in an automated manner. In either case, the customization and/or negotiation is efficient, cost-effective and useful.
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1. A server machine configured to produce a customized legal document, said server machine couples to a network, said server machine comprising:
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a memory that stores expert processes; and at least one processor configured to; receive, from a local machine via the network, a customization request to customize a selected document template for a legal document at said server machine; retrieve an interview question set for the selected document template, the interview question set being retrieved from a group of question sets that are predetermined and the interview question set being retrieved is associated with the selected document template; send the interview question set to the local machine via the network where questions from the interview question set are able to be presented via the local machine; receive, from the local machine via the network, answers to the questions of the interview question set; perform one or more of the expert processes to produce a customized legal document based on the selected document template and the answers to the questions of the interview question set, the expert processes are implemented by computer program code which when performed controls content and verbiage of at least a portion of the customized legal document being produced, the customized legal document being an electronic document; and after the customized legal document has been produced, electronically transmit the customized legal document to the local machine or other machine via the network, wherein the selected document template is used at said server machine to produce the customized legal document, and wherein the customized legal document is electronically transmitted to the local machine or other machine after the answers to the questions of the interview question set for the selected document template have been received at said server machine. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An electronic document generation system for producing customized documents using a network, said electronic document generation system comprising:
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a document template storage to store a plurality of document templates; a question set storage to store a plurality of question sets that are associated with the document templates; an expert logic storage to store expert processes associated with the document templates; and a document server machine configured to; receive, from a user machine via the network, a customization request to customize a selected document template at the document server; identify an interview question set for the selected document template from the plurality of question sets stored in the question set storage, the interview question set being identified is associated with the selected document template, wherein different ones of the document templates have different ones of the interview question sets associated therewith; retrieve the interview question set for the selected document template; send the interview question set to the user machine via the network where questions from the interview question set are able to be presented via the user machine; receive, from a user machine via the network, answers to the questions of the interview question set; perform one or more of the expert processes to produce a customized legal document based on the selected document template and the answers to the questions of the interview question set, the expert processes are implemented by computer program code which when performed controls content and verbiage of at least a portion of the customized legal document being produced; and after the customized legal document has been produced, electronically transmit the customized legal document to the user machine or other machine via the network, wherein the selected document template is used at said document server machine to produce the customized legal document, and wherein the customized legal document is electronically transmitted to the local machine or other machine after the answers to the questions of the interview question set for the selected document template have been received at said document server machine. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A non-transitory computer readable medium including at least computer program code for producing a customized electronic document, said computer readable medium comprising:
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computer program code for receiving a customization request for an electronic document, the customization request including or associating to document data; computer program code for determining a template document for the electronic document based on the document data, the template document being determined from a plurality of available template documents; computer program code for obtaining a question set that is predetermined and associated with but separate from the template document; computer program code for receiving responses to the question set; computer program code for producing a customized electronic legal document from the template document and the responses to the question set, expert processes are associated with the template document and are implemented by computer program code which when performed controls content and verbiage of at least a portion of the customized electronic legal document being produced; and computer program code transmitting the customized electronic legal document to the local machine or other machine via a network, after the customized electronic legal document has been produced, wherein the template document is not provided to the local machine or other machine via the network. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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