SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CREATION, TRANSMISSION,AND TRACKING OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT

• US 20150059004A1
• Filed: 10/30/2014
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Broad Street Opus, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Broad Street Opus, Inc.
• Inventors: Allardyce, Mark
• Application Number:
  US14/528,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20150059004A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/28
• 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: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A system for creating and delivering a locked electronic document in a computing environment includes a computer readable system memory comprising at least one program module, a bus coupled to the computer readable system memory, a processor coupled to the bus, and program instructions stored on the system memory for execution by the processor. The program instructions create a lead sheet having a unique embedded identifier, add a payload to the lead sheet to form the electronic package, add a blanking layer to the electronic package to obscure the payload from view of a recipient, send the electronic package in the computing environment to a designated recipient, validate the designated recipient'"'"'s identity, and remove the blanking layer in response to validating the designated recipient'"'"'s identity, thereby allowing the recipient to view the payload.

Claims

1. A system for creating and delivering a locked electronic package in a computing environment, comprising:

a computer readable system memory comprising at least one program module;

a bus coupled to the computer readable system memory;

a processor coupled to the bus; and

program instructions, stored on the system memory for execution by the processor, to;

create a lead sheet having a unique embedded identifier, add a payload to the lead sheet to form the locked electronic package;

add a blanking layer to the electronic package to obscure the payload from view of a recipient;

send the electronic package in the computing environment to a designated recipient;

validate the designated recipient'"'"'s authorization to view the payload contents via a sending server; and

remove the blanking layer in response to validating the designated recipient'"'"'s authorization, thereby allowing the recipient to view the payload, wherein the program instructions validate the recipient'"'"'s authorization by comparing the unique identifier embedded in the lead sheet of the received locked electronic package to a unique identifier stored on the system memory by a sender and, if the two identifiers match, granting access to the payload.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the program instructions are provided as a service in a cloud computing environment.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the program instructions track the payload.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the program instructions acquire an Internet Protocol address of the recipient and correlate the Internet Protocol address to a geographic region.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the program instructions utilize geotracking to establish the geographic region of the recipient.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the program instructions to add the blanking layer comprise overlaying the blanking layer on the payload, the blanking layer having a visibility attribute set to visible, and the payload having a visibility attribute set to not visible.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the program instructions to remove the blanking layer comprise setting a visibility attribute of the blanking layer to not visible, and setting a visibility attribute of the payload to visible.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the blanking layer comprises an opaque white layer.

9. The system according to claim 1 wherein the program instructions are operable to authorize a recipient to forward the locked electronic package to a second-tier recipient

10. A method for creating and sending by a sender a locked electronic package and delivering the locked electronic package to a recipient in a computing environment, the method comprising the steps of:

creating a locked electronic package comprising a lead sheet and a payload, the lead sheet having a unique identifier for the locked electronic package;

adding a blanking layer to obscure the payload from view of the recipient;

sending the electronic package in the computing environment to a designated recipient;

validating the recipient'"'"'s authorization to view the payload via a sending server, wherein the step of validating the recipient'"'"'s authorization comprises matching the unique identifier embedded in the lead sheet of the received locked electronic package to the same identifier stored by the sender on the system memory; and

removing the blanking layer in response to validating the recipient'"'"'s authorization, thereby allowing the recipient to view the payload.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the step of tracking the electronic package by the sender.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the step of tracking the electronic package comprises acquiring the recipient'"'"'s Internet Protocol address and correlating the Internet Protocol address to a geographic region.

13. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the step of authorizing a recipient to forward the locked electronic package to a second-tier recipient.

14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising the step of maintaining a chain of custody by compiling an authorization status for all recipients of the locked electronic package.

15. The method according to claim 10, wherein the step of creating the locked electronic package comprises retaining a native version of the payload and converting a copy of the payload to a common format for sending.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the common format is a PDF file format.

17. A computer program product for creating and delivering a locked electronic package in a computing environment, comprising:

a computer readable storage device having computer readable program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions configured to;

create a lead sheet having a unique embedded identifier;

add a payload to the lead sheet to form the locked electronic package;

add a blanking layer to the locked electronic package to obscure the pay load from view of a recipient;

send the electronic package in the computing environment to a designated recipient;

validate the designated recipient'"'"'s authorization to view the payload contents via a sending server, wherein the program instructions validate the recipient'"'"'s authorization by comparing the unique identifier embedded in the lead sheet of the locked electronic package to a unique identifier stored in a sending server memory and, if the two identifiers match, granting access to the payload; and

remove the blanking layer in response to validating the designated recipient'"'"'s authorization, thereby allowing the recipient to view the payload; and

track the payload by acquiring an Internet Protocol address of the recipient and correlating the Internet Protocol address to a geographic region.

18. The computer program product according to claim 17 wherein the program instructions are configured to authorize a recipient to forward the locked electronic package to a second-tier recipient