Method and device for assessing a probative value of electronic document management systems
First Claim
1. A method for securing data transfers between users of a trusted third party network, said method comprising:
- a step of checking the identity of at least one recipient to whom a sender of a document wants to transmit said document through said trusted third party network,a step of transmission, over said trusted third party network, by the sender to at least one of the recipients whose identity has been checked, of said document by implementing a plurality of steps of processing of said document by at least a document processing server, said plurality of document processing steps being selected from a group consisting of composition, switching, copying, communication, and archiving,for said plurality of document processing steps performed by the at least one document processing server, a step of measuring, by a computer of the trusted third party network, a processing step probative value indicative of a trustworthiness of each said processing step actually applied to said document, the processing step probative value being based at least in part according to a result returned concerning the processing step operation actually applied to the document,a step of aggregating the processing step probative values of the plurality of steps of document processing in said transmission to provide a measurement of an overall document transmission probative value of said transmission of the document, anda step of associating, in memory, said overall document transmission probative value with an identifier of said transmission of said document.
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Abstract
A method for securing data assessing a probative value of document transfers. The identity of a recipient of a document is authenticated. The document is transmitted from a document sender to the recipient by processing the document processing. A probative value of the processing step is measured. The probative values of processing of the transmission are aggregated to provide a measure of the overall probative value of said document transmission. The overall probative value is associated with the transmission of the document. Also provided is a trusted third party network system for managing secure electronic correspondence which includes at least one application computer server handling a directory service for users of the system and a service for supplying the users with current correspondence accounts on the computer server.
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10 Claims
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1. A method for securing data transfers between users of a trusted third party network, said method comprising:
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a step of checking the identity of at least one recipient to whom a sender of a document wants to transmit said document through said trusted third party network, a step of transmission, over said trusted third party network, by the sender to at least one of the recipients whose identity has been checked, of said document by implementing a plurality of steps of processing of said document by at least a document processing server, said plurality of document processing steps being selected from a group consisting of composition, switching, copying, communication, and archiving, for said plurality of document processing steps performed by the at least one document processing server, a step of measuring, by a computer of the trusted third party network, a processing step probative value indicative of a trustworthiness of each said processing step actually applied to said document, the processing step probative value being based at least in part according to a result returned concerning the processing step operation actually applied to the document, a step of aggregating the processing step probative values of the plurality of steps of document processing in said transmission to provide a measurement of an overall document transmission probative value of said transmission of the document, and a step of associating, in memory, said overall document transmission probative value with an identifier of said transmission of said document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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- 8. A trusted third party network system for managing secure electronic correspondence comprising at least one application computer server handling a directory service for users of said system and a service for supplying said users with current correspondence accounts on said computer server, said trusted third party network system handling scheduling of operations for processing said electronic correspondence belonging to a group consisting of composition before sending, transmission of the composed correspondence, copying of the transmitted correspondence and archiving of the sent correspondence, wherein said system also provides a service for end-to-end validation of the operations scheduled by the application server, said validation operations comprising computing probative values of identification of the users connecting to the directory service and of results returned concerning the operations actually applied to each individual correspondence and an overall probative value of the secured electronic correspondence.
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