DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR SECURELY EXECUTING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS

• US 20140208194A1
• Filed: 01/21/2014
• Published: 07/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ambir Technology Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Ambir Technology Incorporated
• Inventors: O'Leary, Michael, Hansen, Michael, Murray, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US14/159,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20140208194A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/222
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging

Abstract

A system and method for creating and/or presenting electronic forms to users and securely collecting the data entered into the electronic forms. A dashboard application includes a collection of electronic forms for display on a presentation device. Clients complete their corresponding form(s) through the presentation device and the completed form(s) are collected by a server application and stored in a database remote from the presentation device.

Claims

1. A system for presenting electronic forms, the system comprising:

a dashboard application executable on a personal computing device and including a collection of electronic forms stored in a database and capable of display;

a presentation device including a user interface to display one or more of the forms; and

a server application executable on a personal computing device to send and collect forms between the dashboard application and the presentation device, wherein information collected through the presentation device is not stored on the presentation device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the server application comprises a virtual printer driver to send the forms to the presentation device.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a form design application executable on a personal computing device to create and edit the forms.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the form design application executes on the personal computing device to display on a user interface a form-building template and a form design control panel.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the dashboard application displays the forms created by the form design application upon selection of one or more of the forms.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a TWAIN driver to integrate completed electronic forms received from the presentation device with a form storage application.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the dashboard application automatically monitors the form completion level on the presentation device.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of presentation devices, wherein the dashboard application automatically monitors and displays a status of each of the presentation devices.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the presentation device comprises a tablet computing device.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the presentation device comprises a stylus to fill out forms displayed on the tablet computing device.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a docking station including a plurality of docking ports for a plurality of presentation devices.

12. A method of presenting electronic forms, comprising:

storing a plurality of user-generated electronic forms in a database associated with a personal computing device;

displaying the stored electronic forms through a user interface dashboard for selection;

sending a selected one or more electronic forms to a presentation device for display through a presentation device user interface;

receiving form information entered via the presentation device; and

storing the completed one or more electronic forms on a recordable medium associated with the personal computing device.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising generating custom electronic forms in a standard format using a form design application executable on a personal computing device.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising receiving a selection of the one or more electronic forms through the user interface dashboard.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the presentation device comprises a tablet computing device and a stylus adapted to fill out electronic forms displayed on the tablet computing device.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising generating a different web server for each sending of the electronic forms to the presentation device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein each different web server comprises a randomly selected one of a plurality of ports.

18. The method of claim 12, further comprising establishing a secure handshaking between a web server and the presentation device, wherein the secure handshaking includes providing a random URL with which the presentation device connects with the server.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising shutting down a connection between the web server and the presentation device if more than one connection is made.

20. The method of claim 12, further comprising the dashboard monitoring and displaying a form completion level of the presentation device.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising the dashboard application automatically monitoring and displaying a status of each of a plurality of presentation devices.

22. The method of claim 12, wherein the electronic forms are hosted and sent to the presentation device by a server, and further comprising automatically syncing the electronic forms with the server.