Electronic form routing and data capture system and method

• US 20050210263A1
• Filed: 09/24/2004
• Published: 09/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Probaris Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Probaris Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Goldstein, Michael, Lusardi, Robert, Hollin, Benjamin Paul, Felice, Vincent Di, Levas, Robert George, Gao, Hong Xiang, Garst, Samuel, Gunter, Carl A., Ruggieri, David J.
• Application Number:
  US10/949,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20050210263A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/182
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/33 using certificates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/34 involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/68 Special signature format, e.g. XML format
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/12 Applying verification of the received information cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for data integrity or data verification H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3247 involving digital signatures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3263 involving certificates, e.g. public key certificate [PKC] or attribute certificate [AC]; Public key infrastructure [PKI] arrangements network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using certificates in a packet data network H04L63/0823
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3271 using challenge-response

Abstract

An electronic form routing system that includes a front-end server accessible to the users over a network via an encrypted link and a secure back-end database for storing the electronic forms and the data input by users into the form.

Claims

1. An electronic form routing system, the electronic form comprising at least two sections, at least one of the sections comprising at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the system comprising:

a front-end server accessible to the users over a network via an encrypted link; and

a secure back-end database for storing the electronic forms and the data;

wherein the system supports multiple mechanisms for allowing the user to authenticate to the front-end server.

2. An electronic form routing system, the electronic form comprising at least two sections, at least one of the sections comprising at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the system comprising:

a front-end server accessible to the users over a network via an encrypted link; and

a secure back-end database for storing the electronic forms and the data;

wherein rights of the user to view select data in the electronic form is controlled by the server and wherein an electronic signature is applied to one or more of the sections that include the select data.

3. An electronic form routing system, the electronic form comprising multiple sections, wherein the sections are indicated by tags and at least one of the sections comprises at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the system comprising:

a front-end server accessible to the users over a network via an encrypted link; and

a secure back-end database for storing the electronic forms and the data;

wherein rights of the user to view select data in the electronic form is controlled by the server based on the section tags.

4. An electronic form routing system, the electronic form comprising multiple sections, wherein the sections are indicated by tags and at least one of the sections comprises at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the system comprising:

a front-end server accessible to the users over a network via an encrypted link; and

a secure back-end database for storing the electronic forms and the data;

wherein rights of the user to edit at least one of select sections and select data in the electronic form is controlled by the server based on the section tags.

5. An electronic form routing system, the electronic form comprising at least two sections, wherein the sections are indicated by tags and at least one of the sections comprises at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the system comprising:

a front-end server accessible to the users over a network via an encrypted link; and

a secure back-end database for storing the electronic forms and the data;

wherein the users are assigned attributes and wherein a form creator indicates, using one or more of the tags, which of the sections of the form can be viewed or edited by the users based on the attributes assigned to the users.

6. An electronic form routing system, the electronic form comprising at least two sections, wherein the sections are indicated by tags and at least one of the sections comprises at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the system comprising:

a front-end server accessible to the users over a network via an encrypted link; and

a secure back-end database for storing the electronic forms and the data;

wherein a form creator indicates, using one or more of the tags, which of the sections of the form can be viewed or edited by the users based on rules expressed in boolean logic.

7. An electronic form routing system, the electronic form comprising at least two sections, at least one of the sections comprising at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the system comprising:

a front-end server accessible to the users over a network via an encrypted link; and

a secure back-end database for storing the electronic forms and the data;

wherein, upon the user inputting the data into one of the electronic forms and routing the form, one or more triggers are invoked to execute a set of one or more tasks.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the one or more tasks comprise at least one of pushing the data to an external resource and pulling additional data from an external resource.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the data stored in the external resource is consulted to determine whether to grant a second user with access to a physical location.

10. A method for routing an electronic form, the electronic form comprising at least two sections, at least one of the sections comprising at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the method comprising:

providing the users with access to a front-end server over a network via an encrypted link;

storing the electronic forms and the data in a secure back-end database; and

supporting multiple mechanisms for allowing the user to authenticate to the front-end server.

11. A method for routing an electronic form, the electronic form comprising at least two sections, at least one of the sections comprising at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the method comprising:

providing the users with access to a front-end server over a network via an encrypted link;

storing the electronic forms and the data in a secure back-end database; and

controlling rights of the user to view select data in the electronic form by the server,

wherein an electronic signature is applied to one or more of the sections that include the select data.

12. A method for routing an electronic form, the electronic form comprising multiple sections, wherein the sections are indicated by tags and at least one of the sections comprises at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the method comprising:

providing the users with access to a front-end server over a network via an encrypted link;

storing the electronic forms and the data in a secure back-end database; and

controlling rights of the user to view select data in the electronic form by the server based on the section tags.

13. A method for routing an electronic form, the electronic form comprising multiple sections, wherein the sections are indicated by tags and at least one of the sections comprises at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the method comprising:

providing the users with access to a front-end server over a network via an encrypted link;

storing the electronic forms and the data in a secure back-end database; and

controlling rights of the user to edit at least one of select sections and select data in the electronic form by the server based on the section tags.

14. A method for routing an electronic form, the electronic form comprising at least two sections, wherein the sections are indicated by tags and at least one of the sections comprises at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the method comprising:

providing the users with access to a front-end server over a network via an encrypted link;

storing the electronic forms and the data in a secure back-end database; and

assigning attributes to the users

wherein a form creator indicates, using one or more of the tags, which of the sections of the form can be viewed or edited by the users based on the attributes assigned to the users.

15. A method for routing an electronic form, the electronic form comprising at least two sections, wherein the sections are indicated by tags and at least one of the sections comprises at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the method comprising:

providing the users with access to a front-end server over a network via an encrypted link;

storing the electronic forms and the data in a secure back-end database; and

wherein a form creator indicates, using one or more of the tags, which of the sections of the form can be viewed or edited by the users based on rules expressed in boolean logic.

16. A method for routing an electronic form, the electronic form comprising at least two sections, at least one of the sections comprising at least one data field for receiving data input by one or more users, the method comprising:

providing the users with access to a front-end server over a network via an encrypted link;

storing the electronic forms and the data in a secure back-end database; and

invoking one or more triggers to execute a set of one or more tasks upon the user inputting the data into one of the electronic forms and routing the form.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the one or more tasks comprise at least one of pushing the data to an external resource and pulling additional data from an external resource.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the data stored in the external resource is consulted to determine whether to grant a second user with access to a physical location.