Patent ID: 11908027
Assignee: ABC LEGAL SERVICES, LLC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon instructions allowing a secure document portal to provide a recipient remote access to and delivery of electronic documents, that when executed by one or more processors in one or more computing devices, configure the computing devices to:
receive personally identifiable information about the recipient, and metadata about one or more electronic documents;
generate a retrieval code, wherein the retrieval code is specific to the recipient and/or specific to the electronic documents; and
cause the retrieval code to be embedded or encoded in a URL encoded as a QR code or other machine-readable code and displayed on a delivery notice page or device separate from the electronic documents for delivery without proof of service to the recipient;
at a later time:
receive, from a user, input including the retrieval code;
verify, in response to receiving the input, that the user is the recipient;
provide the recipient pre-delivery remote access to view the electronic documents, wherein the metadata allows the one or more computing devices to retrieve the electronic documents to provide the recipient the pre-delivery remote access to view the electronic documents;
offer, where email is not valid service, electronic delivery of the electronic documents to the recipient;
if the recipient agrees to the offer of electronic delivery, cause the electronic documents to be electronically delivered to the recipient;
after the electronic documents are electronically delivered to the recipient:
present an acceptance document acknowledging and accepting or waiving service of the electronic documents upon the recipient;
ask the recipient to execute the acceptance document; and

if the recipient executes the acceptance document, save the executed acceptance document as evidence of acceptance or waiver of service of process by the recipient.