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Computer form action zone summary system and method

  • US 9,286,281 B2
  • Filed: 10/20/2010
  • Issued: 03/15/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Method for facilitating the entry by a plurality of users, of information into a scaffold electronic document, wherein the scaffold electronic document includes content displayable to the plurality of users as text and/or graphics on one or more pages, and m groups of information entry fields U1, . . . , Ui, . . . , Um, each group being associated with a distinct user of the plurality of users, and wherein the ith group of information entry fields includes ni, information entry fields Fi1, . . . , Fiji, . . . , Fini, wherein the information entry fields are adapted to receive information entered therein by an ith user, comprising the steps of:

  • by a document summary server,A. for the scaffold electronic document, establishing a group index i for each of the m groups of information entry fields where 1≦

    i≦

    m, and establishing a subgroup index ji for the ith group of information entry fields Fiji of the respective m groups where 1≦

    i≦

    m and where 1≦

    ji

    ni, wherein i and ji for the ith user have initial values equal to 1 for the scaffold electronic document, and i and ji have maximum values equal to m and ni respectively for the scaffold electronic document,B. displaying to each ith user of the plurality of users, over a network, a respective unsigned copy of the scaffold electronic document, such that a different unsigned copy of the scaffold electronic document is displayed to each of the plurality of users,C. in response to receipt over the network of data indicative of entry by each ith user of information into the jith information entry field of the ith group, modifying the respective unsigned copy of the scaffold electronic document for that ith user to include the entered information in the jith information entry field, and incrementing the subgroup index j for the Fijith subgroup,D. enabling display to each ith user, a steps-to-go display representative of the difference between the maximum value of the subgroup index ji for that ith user and the current value of the subgroup index ji for that ith user,E. generating a signed document for each ith user by (i) creating a graphical representation based on data indicative of entry by that ith user and (ii) combining the graphical representation with the respective unsigned copy of the scaffold electronic document, andF. combining the graphical representations created across all of the plurality of users into a single signed document.

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