TRUSTED AND SECURE TECHNIQUES FOR ITEM DELIVERY AND EXECUTION
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Abstract
Documents and other items can be delivered electronically from sender to recipient with a level of trustedness approaching or exceeding that provided by a personal document courier. A trusted electronic go-between can validate, witness and/or archive transactions while, in some cases, actively participating in or directing the transaction. Printed or imaged documents can be marked using handwritten signature images, seal images, electronic fingerprinting, watermarking, and/or steganography. Electronic commercial transactions and transmissions take place in a reliable, “trusted” virtual distribution environment that provides significant efficiency and cost savings benefits to users in addition to providing an extremely high degree of confidence and trustedness. The systems and techniques have many uses including but not limited to secure document delivery, execution of legal documents, and electronic data interchange (EDI).
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33 Claims
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1-21. -21. (canceled)
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22. A method for securely managing electronic documents, the method comprising:
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creating an electronic document; packaging the electronic document in a secure electronic container; associating one or more controls with the secure electronic container, the one or more controls specifying one or more permitted uses of the electronic document, the controls being configured to be used by tamper-resistant hardware and/or software to govern access to or other use of the electronic document; and sending the secure electronic container to a trusted go-between. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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