Electronic document management and delivery

• US 8,051,289 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2010
• Issued: 11/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Parchment Inc.
• Original Assignee: Avow Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Johnston, Mark A., Johnson, Jay A., Kaschmitter, Chris M., Hyman, Ronald M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cervetti; David Garcia
• Application Number:
  US12/904,289
• Publication Number:
  US 20110022496A1
• Time in Patent Office: 383 Days
• Field of Search: 713/175, 713/171, 713/177, 726/1, 726/3, 726/4, 726/26, 726/27
• US Class Current: 713/175
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/645 using a third party
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 Third-party assisted

Abstract

In one embodiment, system to manage and delivery electronic documents is disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for producing an authenticable, secure electronic document comprising:

receiving, with the cooperation of a messaging framework between a third party data center and a document generation module, data content from the third party data center associated with an order;

receiving, with the cooperation of the messaging framework, a unique organization identifier corresponding to a third party; and

generating the authenticable, secure electronic document, wherein the generating includes;

assembling, by a processor;

the data content associated with the order,

a certification associated with the third party based on the unique organization identifier, and

one or more policies that control document usage,

into the authenticable, secure electronic document.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the order for the authenticable, secure electronic document from a web-based ordering service.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the authenticable, secure electronic document represents a transcript, a medical record or a financial record.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more policies are applied to the authenticable, secure electronic document based on the unique organization identifier.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

applying a certification graphic to the authenticable, secure electronic document; and

including one or more of graphics, watermarks, and electronic files in the authenticable, secure electronic document.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a hardware security key data element identifies a digital certificate.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the authenticable, secure electronic document is delivered to one or more recipients other than the third party.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the authenticable, secure electronic document is delivered via an email delivery method, a secure download delivery method, a requestor download delivery method, a Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council Data Transport Service “

PESC DTS”

delivery method, or a PESC DTS response delivery method.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the third party is one or more of a university, a school and a higher educational institution.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the certification includes a digital certificate and the authenticable, secure electronic document is delivered in a portable document format.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable information storage media having stored thereon instructions, that if executed by a processor, perform the steps of claim 1.

12. A system for producing an authenticable, secure electronic document comprising:

means for receiving, with the cooperation of a messaging framework between a third party data center and a document generation module, data content from the third party data center associated with an order;

means for receiving, with the cooperation of the messaging framework, a unique organization identifier corresponding to a third party; and

means for generating the authenticable, secure electronic document, wherein the generating means includes;

means for assembling, by a processor;

the data content associated with the order,

a certification associated with the third party based on the unique organization identifier, and

one or more policies that control document usage,

into the authenticable, secure electronic document.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising means for receiving the order for the authenticable, secure electronic document from a web-based ordering service.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the authenticable, secure electronic document represents a transcript a medical record or a financial record.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the one or more policies are applied to the authenticable, secure electronic document based on the unique organization identifier.

16. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

means for applying a certification graphic to the authenticable, secure electronic document; and

means for including one or more of graphics, watermarks, and electronic files in the authenticable, secure electronic document.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the authenticable, secure electronic document is delivered to one or more recipients other than the third party.

18. A system that is capable of producing an authenticable, secure electronic document comprising:

a messaging framework between a third party data center and a document generation module that receives data content from the third party data center associated with an order;

a document retrieval module that receives, with the cooperation of the messaging framework, a unique organization identifier corresponding to a third party; and

a document generation service module that generates the authenticable, secure electronic document, wherein the document generation service module includes;

a processor that assembles;

the data content associated with the order,

a certification associated with the third party based on the unique organization identifier, and

one or more policies that control document usage,

into the authenticable, secure electronic document.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising:

a document ordering service that receives the order for the authenticable, secure electronic document from a web-based ordering service; and

a document authentication service that applies a certification graphic to the authenticable, secure electronic document, the certification including one or more of graphics, watermarks, and electronic files in the authenticable, secure electronic document.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein:

the authenticable, secure electronic document represents a transcript a medical record or a financial record,

the one or more policies are applied to the authenticable, secure electronic document based on the unique organization identifier, and

the authenticable, secure electronic document is delivered to one or more recipients other than the third party.