System and method for controlling electronic communications

• US 10,140,382 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2017
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Veeva Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Veeva Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Longo, Brian, Pimprikar, Abhay, Garty, Drew, Murphy, Timothy S., Lam, Ling
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilles, Jude Jean
• Application Number:
  US15/847,637
• Publication Number:
  US 20180157764A1
• Time in Patent Office: 343 Days
• Field of Search: 709203-206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/01 Customer relationship services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms

Abstract

The approved email generation system described is capable of producing email communications using approved email templates and content that have been aligned with information regarding user access to such content. Once the approved email has been generated, the content may be verified again for accuracy and validity before being delivered to the user. When the user accesses delivered content, the approved email generation system again verifies the content and allows the user access to only the most current version of the content available. The system provides for control of the content of electronic communications to users.

Claims

1. A method for providing approved content from a controlled content repository, the method comprising:

establishing an access protocol for a controlled content repository, wherein approved content is stored in the controlled content repository and is accessible according to the access protocol, wherein the access protocol is used for determining if the approved content in the controlled content repository can be used to generate a first electronic user interface associated with a first computing device, and wherein the approved content comprises or is generated based on first data associated with a first object and second data associated with a second object;

receiving, from a second computing device, the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object;

providing the approved content in the controlled content repository to the first computing device after a determination that the approved content in the controlled content repository is authorized to be made available to the first computing device in accordance with the access protocol, wherein the first electronic user interface associated with the first computing device is generated based on the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object;

receiving, from the first computing device, first source data and second source data;

aligning or correlating the first source data with the first data associated with the first object; and

aligning or correlating the second source data with the second data associated with the second object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data associated with the first object comprises at least one of a first definition or a first workflow associated with the first object.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first source data and the second source data are stored in a source repository separate from the controlled content repository.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object are stored in the controlled content repository.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first source data is associated with at least one of a first subject or a second subject.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising aggregating the first source data associated with the at least one of the first subject or the second subject.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising obfuscating the first source data associated with the at least one of the first subject or the second subject to remove subject identification information associated with the at least one of the first subject or the second subject.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising initiating storage of electronically captured data comprising the aggregated and obfuscated first source data associated with the at least one of the first subject or the second subject.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising mapping or correlating, using a customized electronic data capture system, the electronically captured data to the first object and the second object.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first source data is associated with a first event.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein a second electronic user interface associated with the second computing device is used for generating a definition for the first event and a workflow for the first event.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the first electronic user interface enables navigation between the first event and a first subject associated with the first source data.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the first event comprises or is part of a first clinical trial.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising enabling the first computing device to access an updated definition of the first object prior to the first event.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising extending the first object to generate a third object, wherein the third object is correlated to the first object, wherein the first electronic user interface associated with the first computing device is generated further based on the third object.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising validating the first source data and the second source data.

17. A system for providing approved content from a controlled content repository, comprising:

a controlled content repository for storing approved content, wherein the controlled content repository is accessible according to an access protocol, wherein the access protocol comprises at least one set of access rules, wherein the access protocol enables determining if the approved content within the controlled content repository can be made available to a first computing device via an electronic user interface, wherein the approved content comprises or is generated based on first data associated with a first object and second data associated with a second object; and

a controlling computing device, in communication with the controlled content repository, providing the approved content within the controlled content repository to a first computing device after a determination that the approved content within the controlled content repository is authorized to be made available to the first computing device in accordance with the access protocol, wherein the electronic user interface is generated based on the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object, wherein the electronic user interface is used for initiating receipt or transmission of source data associated with a first subject, and wherein the source data is mapped, correlated, or aligned to the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising a specialized electronic data capture system for obfuscating the source data, and mapping, correlating, or aligning the source data to the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object.

19. A method for providing content from a controlled content repository, the method comprising:

establishing an access protocol for a controlled content repository, wherein content is stored in the controlled content repository and is accessible according to the access protocol, wherein the access protocol is used for determining if the content in the controlled content repository can be used to generate a first electronic user interface associated with a first computing device, and wherein the content comprises or is generated based on first data associated with a first object and second data associated with a second object;

receiving, from a second computing device, the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object;

providing the content in the controlled content repository to the first computing device after a determination that the content in the controlled content repository is authorized to be made available to the first computing device in accordance with the access protocol, wherein the first electronic user interface associated with the first computing device is generated based on the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object; and

receiving, from the first computing device, source data, wherein the source data is mapped, aligned, or correlated to the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the mapping, aligning, or correlating is performed by an electronic data capture application specific integrated circuit having access to one or more mapping, alignment, or correlation rules, respectively, in the controlled content repository.