ELECTRONICALLY IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATION AND SHARING OF DOCUMENTS VIA A COMMUNICATION NETWORK

• US 20110010757A1
• Filed: 03/19/2008
• Published: 01/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: VF Worldwide Holdings Ltd. (Kuoni Reisen Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Tharakan Web Innovations Pvt., Ltd.
• Inventors: Tharakan, P.A. Lalan
• Granted Patent: US 8,914,898 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/64 Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/18 Legal services

Abstract

The invention provides a method and system of authentication and online sharing of documents by electronic means, through a third party, conducted via a communication network. The method involves, creation of a website, subject to the control of an administration entity; uploading the scanned version of the original document by the user at the allotted location in the website, using the obtained user name and created password; assigning a uniquely identifiable indicia to the scanned document; sending the scanned document to the authenticating entity; accessing and verifying the authenticity of scanned document by the authenticating entity, by comparison with the original document available in the database of the authenticating entity. The authentication is performed through an electronically simple mechanism only once, in which, irrespective of the date of issue of the document, the document may be attested and the record may be maintained permanently.

Claims

1. An electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network comprising the steps of:

(i) uploading scanned version of original documents at an allotted location accessible using the communication network;

(ii) allotting document identification indicia unique for the uploaded documents;

(iii) communicating the said uploaded and scanned version of original documents to the authenticating entity, which is capable of authentication of the scanned document;

(iv) verifying the said scanned version of original documents;

(v) authenticating the said verified documents,

(vi) sharing the said authenticated document via the communication network

2. An electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents, via a communication network as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identification of documents for authentication comprises the steps of:

(i) uploading a scanned version of original documents by a user at an allotted location accessible via a communication network;

(ii) allotting of a document identification indicia by which each document is uniquely identifiable by the administration entity, to each one of the scanned documents.

3. The electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communications network is interne.

4. The electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network as claimed claim 1, wherein the communications network is a mobile communication network.

5. The electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network as claimed in claim 1, wherein the document identification indicia is alphabetic in nature.

6. The electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network as claimed in claim 1, wherein the document identification indicia is numeric in nature.

7. The electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network as claimed in claim 1, wherein the document identification indicia is alpha-numeric in nature.

8. An electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network as claimed in claim 1, wherein the authentication method comprises the steps of:

(i) uploading scanned version of original documents at an allotted location accessible using the communication network;

(ii) allotting document identification indicia unique for the uploaded documents;

(iii) communicating the said uploaded and scanned version of original documents to the authenticating entity, which is capable of authentication of the scanned document;

(iv) verifying the said scanned version of original documents;

(v) authenticating the said verified documents,

9. An electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method for sharing of uploaded documents comprises the steps of:

(i) assigning the document identification indicia for the uploaded documents;

(ii) citing the said each document identification indicia details to a third party;

(iii) enabling sharing with the third party by input of cited indicia through the communication network;

10. An electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network as claimed in claim 1, wherein the document is a certificate, license, registered document, copy of policy, share document, letter patent and the like.

11. An electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network as claimed in claim 8, wherein the authenticating entity is an entity issuing the original document, University, Board of Schools, License issuing authority, Registration department, Insurance department, patent office, company, notary and the like.

12. An electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network as claimed in claim 11, wherein the authentication by the authenticating entity is required only once.

13. An electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network as claimed in claim 12, where the authentication is performed irrespective of the date of issue of the document.

14. An electronically implemented method for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network as claimed in claim 13, wherein the administrative entity is a service provider having database for sharing the authenticated document using communication network

15. An electronically implemented system for authentication and sharing of documents via a communication network, wherein the system comprises:

(iv) a client-side computer employed by the user to input the scanned version of his original documents;

(v) a location subject to the control of an administration entity in which the scanned version of the original documents are displayed;

(vi) an authenticating entity, which is capable of authenticating the scanned documents.

(vii) a third party with whom the authenticated and electronically attested documents are shared using a communication network