Sealing Electronic Data Associated With Multiple Electronic Documents

• US 20090006842A1
• Filed: 06/26/2007
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cornerstone Enterprises Limited
• Original Assignee: Cornerstone Enterprises Limited
• Inventors: Clarke, Michael Wymark, Cornwell, David, Ross, John Gordon
• Application Number:
  US11/768,776
• Publication Number:
  US 20090006842A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/155
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• 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

Abstract

The description generally provides for systems and methods for a mobile communication network. Archives of seals can be sealed to protect the integrity of the seals and facilitate validation in the event a sealing party'"'"'s sealed registration document is revoked. A document can be sealed multiple times to nest seals within other seals. Specific evidentiary metadata can be included by the sealing party. A main document including or associated with other documents can be sealed as a collection of documents. The seal of the main document can include external references to the files included in the main document to verify the external files were not changed or altered.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a request associated with a user to generate a seal of a first electronic data, the first electronic data being associated with a second electronic data;

generating a first unique identifier of the first electronic data;

generating a second unique identifier of the second electronic data; and

generating the seal of the first electronic data comprising the first unique identifier and second unique identifier.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first electronic data comprises an email and the second electronic data comprises an attachment of the email.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second electronic data comprises an external file.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the seal comprises:

an authentication information of the user;

the first unique identifier;

a sealing time; and

an external reference associated with the second electronic data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the seal comprises a reference data.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the reference data comprises a text string.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the external reference comprises the second unique identifier and an external reference to the second electronic data.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the seal comprises a plurality of external references.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein the external reference is associated with evidentiary data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the evidentiary data comprises a multimedia data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein multimedia data includes audio data, video data, graphics, or any combination thereof.

12. The method of claim 4, wherein the sealing time is a trusted time.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the second electronic data comprises a second seal.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the second seal comprises external references.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request associated with a second user indicative of validating the first electronic data;

verifying the first unique identifier is identical to the first electronic data; and

verifying the second unique identifier is identical to the second electronic data.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the first electronic data comprises a sealed document, a personal information, a legal transaction, a medical document, a multimedia data, or any combination thereof.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the seal separately from the first electronic data.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the seal and the first electronic data in an electronic file.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising using an API to execute a command.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the command is operative of creating the seal of the first electronic data, validating the seal of the first electronic data, or extracting information from the seal of the first electronic data.

21. A system comprising one or more computing devices configured to:

receive a request associated with a user to generate a seal of a first electronic data, the first electronic data being associated with a second electronic data;

generate a first unique identifier of the first electronic data;

generate a second unique identifier of the second electronic data; and

generate the seal of the first electronic data comprising the first unique identifier and second unique identifier.

22. The system of claim 21, further comprising a validation server configured to:

receive a request associated with the first user or any additional user indicative of validating the first electronic data;

verify the first unique identifier belongs to a first data which is identical to the first electronic data; and

verify the second unique identifier belongs to a second data which is identical to the second electronic data.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the one or more computing devices configured to generate the seal are local to the user.

24. The system of claim 21, wherein a manager does not receive the first electronic data or second electronic data.

25. The system of claim 21, further comprising a computer display configured to:

display the sealed first electronic data in a first area of the computer display; and

display the seal in one or more other areas of the computer display.

26. A computer program product, tangibly embodied in an information carrier, the computer program product including instructions being operable to cause a data processing apparatus to:

receive a request associated with a user to generate a seal of a first electronic data, the first electronic data being associated with a second electronic data;

generate a first unique identifier of the first electronic data;

generate a second unique identifier of the second electronic data; and

generate the seal of the first electronic data comprising the first unique identifier and second unique identifier.

27. A system comprising:

a means for receiving a request associated with a user to generate a seal of a first electronic data, the first electronic data being associated with a second electronic data;

a means for generating a first unique identifier of the first electronic data;

a means for generating a second unique identifier of the second electronic data; and

a means for generating the seal of the first electronic data comprising the first unique identifier and second unique identifier.