System and method for processing digital documents utilizing secure communications over a network
DCFirst Claim
1. A method for a document processing server to process communications between a sender and at least one recipient and to verify an identity of the sender and the at least one recipient for establishing a secured communication channel, the method comprising:
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obtaining a request from the sender to transmit an electronic document to at least one recipient;
obtaining an electronic document corresponding to the request from the sender, wherein the electronic document is encrypted with an encryption key corresponding solely to the sender and the document processing server;
processing the electronic document wherein processing the electronic document includes encrypting the electronic document with an encryption key corresponding solely to at least one recipient and the document processing server;
verifying the identity of the designated at least one recipient and the identity of the sender;
upon verification, establishing a secured communication channel with the at least one recipient;
transmitting the processed electronic document to the designated at least one recipient;
wherein the sender and the designated at least one recipient do not verify the identity of each other; and
wherein the sender and the designated at least one recipient do not share encryption keys.
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Abstract
A system and method for processing communications between a sender computing device and at least one recipient computing device are provided. A sender establishes a secure communication with a document processing server and requests the processing of an electronic document, which can include the appending of a digital signature. The document processing server processes the electronic document and establishes secure communications with one or more designated recipients. The document processing server can implement sender specified recipient identity verification and provide further processing of the electronic document as designated by the recipients.
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45 Claims
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1. A method for a document processing server to process communications between a sender and at least one recipient and to verify an identity of the sender and the at least one recipient for establishing a secured communication channel, the method comprising:
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at the document processing server; obtaining a request from the sender to transmit an electronic document to at least one recipient; obtaining an electronic document corresponding to the request from the sender, wherein the electronic document is encrypted with an encryption key corresponding solely to the sender and the document processing server; processing the electronic document wherein processing the electronic document includes encrypting the electronic document with an encryption key corresponding solely to at least one recipient and the document processing server; verifying the identity of the designated at least one recipient and the identity of the sender; upon verification, establishing a secured communication channel with the at least one recipient; transmitting the processed electronic document to the designated at least one recipient; wherein the sender and the designated at least one recipient do not verify the identity of each other; and wherein the sender and the designated at least one recipient do not share encryption keys. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system for processing communications, the system comprising:
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a sender computing device configured to transmit a request to process an electronic document; at least one recipient computing device corresponding to an identifiable communication channel; and a document processing server, the document processing server configured to verify the identities of the sender computing device and the at least one recipient computing device and to establish secure communications with the sender computing device and the at least one recipient computing device; wherein the document processing server processes an electronic document and transmits the processed electronic document between the sender computing device and the recipient computing device without the sender computing device and the at least one recipient computing device sharing encrypting keys and wherein the document processing server processes the electronic documents with an encryption key corresponding solely to the document processing server and the recipient computing device; and wherein the sender computing device and the at least one recipient computing device do not verify the identity of each other. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components for processing communications between a sender computing device and a plurality of recipient computing devices via a document processing server which receives from the sender computing device a request for transmitting a document to one of the plurality of recipient computing devices, the computer-readable medium comprising:
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an interface component configured to allow secure communication between the sender computing device and each of the plurality of recipient computing devices without requiring the exchange of encryption keys between the sender computing device and the each of the plurality of recipient computing devices; a document processing component configured to verify the identity of the one of the plurality of recipient computing devices and the sender computing device and to process document requests from the sender computing device and append to the document at least an electronic signature corresponding to the sender; wherein the interface component transmits the document to the one of the plurality of recipient computing devices which is designated by the sending computer device and wherein the document processing server processes the electronic documents with encryption key corresponding solely to the document processing server and the recipient computing device; wherein the sender computing device does not verify the identity of the each of the plurality of recipient computing devices; and wherein the each of the plurality of recipient computing devices does not verify the identity of to sender computing device. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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