Method for displaying and printing different sizes of SMART Docs

• US 9,292,480 B2
• Filed: 07/06/2006
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Document Services, Inc (Reynolds & Reynolds Company)
• Original Assignee: Encomia, L.P. (Reynolds & Reynolds Company)
• Inventors: Dubinsky, Andrew M., Andreyev, Ilya, Thomas, Wesley A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Debrow, James J
• Application Number:
  US11/482,133
• Publication Number:
  US 20070011457A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,547 Days
• Field of Search: 715/273
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]

Abstract

The present invention uses XHTML and XML to output a varied resolution PNG (Portable Network Graphics) representation of a document. The resulting image file is too large to be displayed on a standard computer monitor without forcing the user to scroll the document horizontally and/or vertically. The present invention manually rasterizes the image to an acceptable resolution for viewing on a standard computer monitor and allows the user to electronically sign the presented SMART Doc.

Claims

1. A method of displaying for a user a representation of a executable document formatted for printing, the method comprising:

transforming a document into a print representation in a non-scalable graphic image format having a first resolution;

rasterizing the print representation to create a display representation in the non-scalable graphic image format having a second resolution;

displaying the display representation to the user for signing;

capturing an electronic signature on the display representation;

scaling the captured electronic signature to match the first resolution of the print representation;

populating the electronic signature to the print representation; and

printing the print representation, the print representation matching the format of the display representation, including the electronic signature, displayed to the user.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the non-scalable graphic image format is a Portable Network Graphics representation of the document.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the document is a word processing document.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the document is a legacy system document.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the document is generated by a loan origination system.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the document is a layered XML document.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the layered XML document is a SMART Doc.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the SMART Doc is MISMO compliant.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising multiple documents bundled together to form an ePackage.

10. A system for creating executable electronic documents, the electronic documents able to be printed in a format that matches the format seen by a user on a computer monitor, the system comprising:

a driver running on a computer to transform a document into a non-scalable first graphic representations of the document, the non-scalable first graphic representation capable of being printed;

the non-scalable first graphic representation being rasterized to create a second graphic representation in the same image format as the non-scalable first graphic representation, the second graphic representation sized to display on the user'"'"'s computer monitor and capable of being electronically signed by an electronic signature application; and

wherein the electronic signature from the second graphic representation is scaled to match resolution of the first graphic representation and then populated to the non-scalable first graphic representation thereby allowing the first graphic representation to be printed with the electronic signature.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein the driver is a print driver.

12. The system of claim 10 wherein the non-scalable first graphic representation and the second graphic representation use a Portable Network Graphics graphic image format.

13. The system of claim 10 wherein the document is one of a word processing document, a legacy system document, or a loan origination system document.

14. The system of claim 10 wherein the document is a layered XML document.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the layered XML document is a SMART Doc.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the SMART Doc is MISMO compliant.

17. The system of claim 10 further comprising multiple documents bundled together to form an ePackage.

18. A method for creating an executable electronic document, the electronic document able to be printed in a format that matches the format seen by a user on a computer monitor, the method comprising:

using a print driver to transform a document into a Portable Network Graphics representation of the document suitable to be printed;

rasterizing the Portable Network Graphics representation to create a display representation capable of being displayed on a user'"'"'s computer;

displaying the display representation sized to display on the user'"'"'s computer monitor and capable of being electronically signed by an electronic signature application;

scaling the electronic signature to match the Portable Network Graphics representation of the document;

populating the electronic signature to the Portable Network Graphics representation of the document; and

printing the Portable Network Graphics representation with the electronic signature.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the display representation is also a Portable Network Graphics representation of the document.

20. The method of claim 18 wherein the document is a MISMO compliant SMART Doc.