Patent ID: 9230246
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method employed by an organization to expedite electronic delivery and return of a document, the method comprising: sending a document to be received by a recipient to an electronic mail system, where the document as sent is stored in an electronic form, informing the recipient that the document is available to the recipient at any of a plurality of merchants where the document may be retrieved; and receiving the document in an electronic form and in an executed form from the recipient upon the recipient visiting one of the plurality of merchants and at the visited merchant retrieving the document in the electronic form from the mail system to a computing device at the visited merchant, and reviewing and executing the document at the visited merchant, the executed document in an electronic form being received from the recipient by way of the visited merchant and the computing device thereat, wherein the electronic executed document is received from the computing device by way of a returning program employed on the computing device to return the executed document to the organization in the electronic form, the returning program marking the returning document with routing information.