Document Validation System and Method

• US 20080034000A1
• Filed: 07/03/2007
• Published: 02/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Decernis LLC (FoodChain ID Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Decernis LLC (FoodChain ID Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Waldo, Andrew, Raven, Clive, Kenny, Kevin, Zou, Yong
• Granted Patent: US 7,769,712 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/18 Legal services

Abstract

The present invention relates generally to the field of self-validating documents in supply chain management, documentation services and method for creating the same.

Claims

1. A method for creating a customized certification document associated with a user of a compilation service including certification documents comprising the steps of:

receiving at least one of a personalized profile and search query from the user;

creating a customized certification document, wherein creating further comprises;

dividing the certification document to be created into a plurality of sections wherein at least one of the plurality of sections contains content that is related to one or more indexed certification documents and extracted data identified in response to at least one of the personalized profile and search query;

searching one or more indexed certification documents and extracted data using at least one of the personalized profile and search query provided by the user;

fetching content relating to any indexed certification documents or extracted data identified in the searching step;

populating the one or more of the plurality of sections with the content fetched to produce a customized certification document.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the search query is associated with a material and the customized certification document created is produced by associating the search query with a cross-reference selected from a proper name, an identifier, a translation, a synonym, a member of a parent class or any combination thereof found within a certification document that is indexed by cross-referencing the search term and wherein the certification document indexed is in the same language or a different language from the search term.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising selecting a country, a regulation, a physiochemical property, toxicological property, end use, a material, a topic, or any combination thereof within one of the personalized profile and search query to further define the customized certification document to be created.