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Method and device for assessing a probative value of electronic document management systems

  • US 9,444,645 B2
  • Filed: 04/21/2009
  • Issued: 09/13/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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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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