Method and system for automated document registration with cloud computing

• US 8,589,372 B2
• Filed: 12/24/2012
• Issued: 11/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Clinton A. Krislov
• Original Assignee: Clinton A. Krislov
• Inventors: Krislov, Clinton A.
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Baoquoc N
• Application Number:
  US13/726,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20130138619A1
• Time in Patent Office: 330 Days
• Field of Search: 707/706, 707/707
• US Class Current: 707/705
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6272 by registering files or documents with a third party
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2147 Locking files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2151 Time stamp
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/18 Legal services

Abstract

A method and system for automated document registration with cloud computing. The method and system described herein provide an automatic cloud document registration system that creates a secure cloud transformed electronic document with an unalterable time and date stamp stored in a cloud storage object. The cloud storage object comprises plural separate portions stored in plural separate secure storage locations on plural other different server network devices distributed across the cloud communications network but functions as a single secure cloud storage object. Target and server network devices cannot determine where on the cloud communications network the cloud storage object is stored thereby providing additional security and privacy for the secure cloud transformed electronic document. Multiple third-parties are provided an ability to view a given original document in the secure cloud transformed electronic document format from anywhere on the cloud communications network.

Claims

1. A method for automatic registration of electronic documents with cloud computing, comprising:

receiving an original electronic document on a first cloud application stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium on a target network device with one or more processors via a cloud communications network comprising;

one or more public communication networks, one or more private networks, one or more community networks and one or more hybrid networks;

automatically applying via the first cloud application a first set of electronic document registration rules to the original electronic document, wherein the first set of electronic document registration rules include document registration rules applied to all electronic document being registered via an automatic document registration system, thereby creating a first level modified electronic document;

automatically applying via the first cloud application a second set of electronic document registration rules to the first level modified electronic document thereby creating a second level modified electronic document, wherein the second set of electronic document registration rules include local document registration rules applied only via the cloud application on the target network device;

automatically transforming via the first cloud application the second level modified electronic document into a secure cloud electronic document storage format using a pre-determined set of electronic document transformation rules thereby creating a secure cloud transformed electronic document;

automatically generating via the first cloud application a plurality of electronic document registration codes for the secure cloud transformed electronic document, wherein the plurality of electronic document registration codes includes an unalterable date and time stamp, an identification code and one or more encryption codes;

securely transferring the secure cloud transformed electronic document with the first cloud application from the target network device via the cloud communications network to a cloud server network device with one or more processors, one or more different databases and a second cloud application executing in a second non-transitory computer readable medium on the sever network device; and

storing the secure cloud transformed electronic document from the second cloud application on the cloud server network device as a cloud storage object,

wherein the cloud storage object comprises a plurality of separate portions stored in a plurality of separate secure storage locations on a plurality of other different cloud server network devices distributed across the cloud communications network but functions as a single secure cloud storage object,

wherein the first cloud application on the target network device cannot determine which other different cloud server network devices on the one or more public, private, community or hybrid networks on the cloud communications network may have stored the cloud storage object or portions thereof, thereby providing additional security and privacy for the secure cloud transformed electronic document, and

wherein the secure cloud transformed electronic document can be viewed via the target network device and other target devices from anywhere on the cloud communications network without the ability to tamper with the information within the secure cloud transformed electronic document thereby providing an automatic secure electronic document registration system on the cloud communications network.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the cloud storage object includes one or more of a REpresentational State Transfer (REST) or Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) cloud storage objects, portions thereof, or a combination thereof.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first and second cloud applications offer the cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the cloud computing Platform, as a Service (PaaS) and offers Specific cloud automatic secure electronic document registration services as a Service (SaaS) including a cloud software service, wherein the IaaS, PaaS and SaaS include one or more of automatic secure electronic document registration services comprising networking, storage, server network device, virtualization, operating system, middleware, run-time, data or application services, or plural combinations thereof, on the cloud communications network.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the cloud automatic secure electronic document registration services are provided via internet television services, search engine services and/or social networking services on the cloud communications network.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the cloud communications network includes on-demand automatic secure electronic document registration services and broadband network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and measured network services for cloud automatic secure electronic document registration services.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the target network device includes desktop computers, laptop computers, tablet computers, mobile phones, non-mobile phones, smart phones, electronic tablets, Internet phones, Internet appliances, personal digital/data assistants (PDA), digital cameras, portable game consoles, non-portable game consoles, cable television (CATV) set-top boxes, satellite television boxes, or digital televisions including a high definition television (HDTV) or a three-dimensional (3D) television.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the server network device and the target network device include a wireless networking interface comprising a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) wireless networking interface with 4^th generation (4G) wireless speeds for communicating with the cloud communications network.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the secure cloud transformed electronic document format includes an un-viewable encrypted, hashed, message digested format.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the secure cloud transformed electronic document format includes a read-only view format.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the secure cloud transformed electronic document is stored in the cloud storage object using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and securely accessed from the cloud storage object via the X.509 security protocol.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

storing one or more portions of the cloud storage object in the one or more different databases on the cloud communications network using one or more of a plurality of pre-determined virtual file associations for secure cloud transformed electronic document documents in a pre-determined hierarchical structure of security groups and security sub-groups for storing, sharing and retrieving secure transformed electronic documents, wherein a single secure cloud transformed electronic document can reside in a plurality of pre-determined virtual file associations and a plurality of pre-determined security groups and security sub-groups at a same time.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein a copy of the unalterable date and time stamp is encrypted and included in the secure cloud transformed electronic document or a biometric collected from a user of the target network device is encrypted and included in the secure cloud transformed electronic document with the unalterable date and time stamp.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the secure cloud transformed electronic document includes an original legal electronic document or an original non-legal document.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more different databases include a virtual cloud file system that creates a virtual matrixed directory structure by establishing file accesses based on assigning a files to any number of security groups and security sub-groups instead of designating the files to directories and subdirectories in the virtual cloud file system.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the virtual cloud file system allows the virtual matrixed directory structure to be overlaid to a plurality of other viewers who have permission to view the secure cloud transformed electronic document.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a request from the first cloud application on the target network device via the cloud communications network on the second cloud application on the cloud server network device to view a selected secure cloud transformed electronic document stored on the cloud communications network;

verifying on the second cloud application on the cloud server network device that the first cloud application on the target network device is allowed to view the requested secure cloud transformed electronic file;

retrieving securely on the second cloud application on the cloud server network device a copy of the requested secure transformed electronic document from the other different one or more server network devices on the cloud communications network; and

securely transferring the requested secure cloud transformed electronic document to the first cloud application on the target network device from the second cloud application on the cloud server network device via the cloud communications network for secure viewing on the first cloud application.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the retrieving securely step includes:

retrieving securely on the second cloud application a plurality of portions of the requested secure cloud transformed electronic document as the plurality of portions of the cloud storage object from the plurality of separate secure storage locations on the plurality of other different server network devices distributed and stored across the one or more public communication networks, one or more private networks, one or more community networks and one or more hybrid networks of the cloud communications network; and

combining on the second cloud application the retrieved plurality of portions of the requested secure cloud transformed electronic document in a complete electronic document for secure viewing on the first cloud application as the requested secure cloud transformed electronic document.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the combining step includes combining the plurality of portions of the cloud storage object into one portion of the requested secure cloud transformed electronic document by extracting information from the plurality of portions of the cloud storage object and placing the extracted information into a pre-determined format for the requested secure cloud transformed electronic document.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein a plurality of instructions for causing one or more processors on one or more network devices to execute the steps of:

receiving an original electronic document on a first cloud application stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium on a target network device with one or more processors via a cloud communications network comprising;

one or more public communication networks, one or more private networks, one or more community networks and one or more hybrid networks;

automatically applying via the first cloud application a first set of electronic document registration rules to the original electronic document, wherein the first set of electronic document registration rules include document registration rules applied to all electronic document being registered via an automatic document registration system, thereby creating a first level modified electronic document;

automatically applying via the first cloud application a second set of electronic document registration rules to the first level modified electronic document thereby creating a second level modified electronic document, wherein the second set of electronic document registration rules include local document registration rules applied only via the cloud application on the target network device;

automatically transforming via the first cloud application the second level modified electronic document into a secure cloud electronic document storage format using a pre-determined set of electronic document transformation rules thereby creating a secure cloud transformed electronic document;

automatically generating via the first cloud application a plurality of electronic document registration codes for the secure cloud transformed electronic document, wherein the plurality of electronic document registration codes includes an unalterable date and time stamp, an identification code and one or more encryption codes;

securely transferring the secure cloud transformed electronic document with the first cloud application from the target network device via the cloud communications network to a cloud server network device with one or more processors, one or more different databases and a second cloud application executing in a second non-transitory computer readable medium on the sever network device; and

storing the secure cloud transformed electronic document from the second cloud application on the cloud server network device as a cloud storage object,

wherein the cloud storage object comprises a plurality of separate portions stored in a plurality of separate secure storage locations on a plurality of other different cloud server network devices distributed across the cloud communications network but functions as a single secure cloud storage object,

wherein the first cloud application on the target network device cannot determine which other different cloud server network devices on the one or more public, private, community or hybrid networks on the cloud communications network may have stored the cloud storage object or portions thereof, thereby providing additional security and privacy for the secure cloud transformed electronic document, and

wherein the secure cloud transformed electronic document can be viewed via the target network device and other target devices from anywhere on the cloud communications network without the ability to tamper with the information within the secure cloud transformed electronic document thereby providing an automatic secure electronic document registration system on the cloud communications network.

20. A system for automatic registration of electronic documents with cloud computing, comprising in combination for:

receiving an original electronic document on a first cloud application stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium on a target network device with one or more processors via a cloud communications network comprising;

one or more public communication networks, one or more private networks, one or more community networks and one or more hybrid networks;

automatically applying via the first cloud application a first set of electronic document registration rules to the original electronic document, wherein the first set of electronic document registration rules include document registration rules applied to all electronic document being registered via an automatic document registration system, thereby creating a first level modified electronic document;

automatically applying via the first cloud application a second set of electronic document registration rules to the first level modified electronic document thereby creating a second level modified electronic document, wherein the second set of electronic document registration rules include local document registration rules applied only via the cloud application on the target network device;

automatically transforming via the first cloud application the second level modified electronic document into a secure cloud electronic document storage format using a pre-determined set of electronic document transformation rules thereby creating a secure cloud transformed electronic document;

automatically generating via the first cloud application a plurality of electronic document registration codes for the secure cloud transformed electronic document, wherein the plurality of electronic document registration codes includes an unalterable date and time stamp, an identification code and one or more encryption codes;

securely transferring the secure cloud transformed electronic document with the first cloud application from the target network device via the cloud communications network to a cloud server network device with one or more processors, one or more different databases and a second cloud application executing in a second non-transitory computer readable medium on the sever network device; and

storing the secure cloud transformed electronic document from the second cloud application on the cloud server network device as a cloud storage object,

wherein the cloud storage object comprises a plurality of separate portions stored in a plurality of separate secure storage locations on a plurality of other different cloud server network devices distributed across the cloud communications network but functions as a single secure cloud storage object,

wherein the first cloud application on the target network device cannot determine which other different cloud server network devices on the one or more public, private, community or hybrid networks on the cloud communications network may have stored the cloud storage object or portions thereof, thereby providing additional security and privacy for the secure cloud transformed electronic document, and

wherein the secure cloud transformed electronic document can be viewed via the target network device and other target devices from anywhere on the cloud communications network without the ability to tamper with the information within the secure cloud transformed electronic document thereby providing an automatic secure electronic document registration system on the cloud communications network;

receiving a request from the first cloud application on the target network device via the cloud communications network on the second cloud application the cloud server network device to view a selected secure cloud transformed electronic document stored on the cloud communications network;

verifying on the second cloud application on the cloud server network device that the first cloud application on the target network device is allowed to view the requested secure cloud transformed electronic file;

retrieving securely on the second cloud application on the cloud server network device a copy of the requested secure transformed electronic document from the other different one or more server network devices on the cloud communications network; and

securely transferring the requested secure cloud transformed electronic document to the first cloud application on the target network device from the second cloud application on the cloud server network device via the cloud communications network for secure viewing on the first cloud application.