Differentiated proxy digital signatures
First Claim
1. A computer program product for providing input to a workflow application, embodied on non-transitory information carrier, operable to cause a data process apparatus to perform the operations offreceiving source documents, the source documents having respective original signatures but no digital signatures;
- and signatures, and wherein the source documents comprise paper documents;
digitizing the source documents to generate digital representations of the source documents, wherein the digital representations of the source documents include the respective original signatures represented digitally but no digital signatures; and
applying differentiated proxy digital signatures to the digital representations of the source documents, the differentiated proxy digital signatures being annotated with metadata indicating the quality of the respective original signatures, the differentiated proxy digital signatures indicating the digital representation of the source documents corresponds to the source documents, and further indicating an actual signature is present on the source documents.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing input to a workflow application. Source documents are received that have respective original signatures but no digital signatures. The source documents can be paper documents, or they can be scanned representations of paper documents. Proxy digital signatures are applied to digital representations of the source documents. The proxy digital signatures are differentiated in that they are annotated with metadata indicating the quality of the respective original signatures.
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Citations
21 Claims
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1. A computer program product for providing input to a workflow application, embodied on non-transitory information carrier, operable to cause a data process apparatus to perform the operations off
receiving source documents, the source documents having respective original signatures but no digital signatures; - and signatures, and wherein the source documents comprise paper documents;
digitizing the source documents to generate digital representations of the source documents, wherein the digital representations of the source documents include the respective original signatures represented digitally but no digital signatures; and applying differentiated proxy digital signatures to the digital representations of the source documents, the differentiated proxy digital signatures being annotated with metadata indicating the quality of the respective original signatures, the differentiated proxy digital signatures indicating the digital representation of the source documents corresponds to the source documents, and further indicating an actual signature is present on the source documents. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
- and signatures, and wherein the source documents comprise paper documents;
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8. A method, implemented by a data processing system, of providing input to a workflow application, comprising:
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receiving a source document having an original signature but no digital signature, and wherein the source document comprises a paper document; digitizing, by the data processing system, the source document to generate a digital representation of the source document;
document, wherein the digital representation of the source document includes the original signature represented digitally but no digital signature;assessing, by a user, a correspondence of the digital representation to the source document; and signing, by the data processing system in response to the assessing by the user, the digital representation with a differentiated proxy digital signature, wherein the differentiated proxy digital signature stands for the correspondence of the digital representation to the source document and to a presence of the original signature on the source document, wherein the differentiated proxy digital signature does not stand for an authenticity and an integrity of the source document, wherein the differentiated proxy digital signature is annotated with metadata indicating the quality of the original signature, and wherein the differentiated proxy digital signature indicates the digital representation corresponds to the source document, and further indicates the original signature is actually present on the source document. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A data processing system that is configured to provide input to a workflow application, comprising:
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a digitizer that is configured to receive a source document having an original signature but no digital signature, and that is configured to generate a digital representation of the source document, wherein the source document comprises a paper document, and wherein the digital representation of the source document includes the original signature represented digitally but no digital signature; a user interface that is configured to receive, from a user, a correspondence of the digital representation to the source document; and a digital signature generator that is configured to sign, in response to receiving the correspondence, the digital representation with a differentiated proxy digital signature, wherein the differentiated proxy digital signature stands for the correspondence of the digital representation to the source document and to a presence of the original signature on the source document, wherein the differentiated proxy digital signature does not stand for an authenticity and an integrity of the source document, wherein the differentiated proxy digital signature is annotated with metadata indicating the quality of the original signature, and wherein the differentiated proxy digital signature indicates the digital representation corresponds to the source document, and further indicates the original signature is actually present on the source document. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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