Patent ID: 11930148
Assignee: UNITE DIGITAL
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A computer implemented method comprising:
managing a plurality of electronic documents utilized in a transaction to purchase or lease a vehicle;
for separate ones of the electronic documents in separate formats originating from different sources, the different sources including at least two from a group of sources including a vehicle dealership, a state government department that licenses and registers vehicles, a third party financial institution, a third party supplier of vehicle warranties, a third party supplier of post-sale vehicle services, and a third party supplier of impact printer forms, wherein at least one of the sources is a third party to the transaction:
receiving, by a custom printer driver, instructions to a printer for printing the specific document;
instead of printing the specific document, creating, by the custom printer driver, a file in a standard format containing non-printed print output of the specific document, based on the received instructions to the printer for printing the specific document;
automatically adding content concerning the transaction to at least one corresponding field of the file created by the customer printer driver containing non-printed print output of the specific document in the standard format;
receiving at least one electronic signature for the specific document;
automatically adding the at least one electronic signature to at least one corresponding location of the specific document in the standard format;
saving the file containing non-printed print output of the specific document in the standard format with the added content concerning the transaction and the at least one electronic signature; and
associating the file containing non-printed print output of the specific document in the standard format with the transaction.