Patent ID: 9665737
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A secure, tamper evident and non-refutable web-based method for applying a legally enforceable signature of a user on an electronic document located on a server, signing of said document occurring in a web environment, said method being entirely server based, not requiring installation of any interface program for signing documents on the user's computer and comprising the steps: a) having the user access, through a web browser, the web environment of a web-based service provider's secure electronic system, said secure electronic system of the web provider or an ancillary service used by the web provider having verified an identity of the user, wherein upon the user being ready to electronically sign the electronic document, the web-based service provider's system performs a hand-off to the signing process; b) having the user sign the electronic document in said web environment through presentation of web pages to said user through the user's web browser, said signing including the server controlling the signing process, said signing further comprising utilization of modules on the server performing the substeps of: c) on the server, generating a process log which is securely associated with the electronic document being signed, wherein the process log is a true rendition of the signing of the electronic document, and in the signing of step b), said process log comprising a record of the signing process of substeps b) i) to b) iv) as executed, said record storing every one of said web pages as presented to the user for reproduction at a later date, and securely associating said process log with the document as signed, wherein the process log evidences the signing of step b) without directly interacting with a user's computer due to the method being server-based; d) making the document as signed available to the user; and wherein the securely associating of step c) comprises the substeps of: wherein said process authentication code is a hash of said process log; wherein all interactions with the user during the signing process occur in the web browser through the web pages such that legal intent to sign and agreement to the contents displayed on the Web pages is established and consented to through the viewing of said web pages, the storing of every one of said web pages in the process log allowing reconstruction of every step that occurred during the signing process.