Patent ID: 8949706
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for distributed electronic signature documents comprising: creating and storing on a signing server a signing template that contains information about how a signable document is to be signed, the information specifying locations in the signable document of signatures of one or more signers; creating a signable document to be distributed to a signer for signing, wherein the signable document is a document file that includes form fields and an activatable control that references the signing template stored on a web signing server; electronically transmitting the signable document to the signer; sending a message using the activatable control in the signing document to a web signing server to invoke a signing process defined by the signing template; and executing the signing process by receiving data entered by the signer into the form fields of the document file and merging the received data into the signing template, wherein the signing template is separate from the signable document, and wherein the signing template and the signable document reference one another, and wherein the information in the template further includes: