Patent ID: 8311938
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for delivering an electronic document to an individual and performing an action that is specified by the individual with respect to the electronic document, the method performed by a computing system having a processor and a memory, the method comprising: maintaining, by the computing system, definitions of a plurality of document types, each definition specifying one or more allowed actions that are permitted to be taken by an individual in conjunction with an associated document type; receiving an electronic document from a sending organization that is addressed to an individual, wherein the received electronic document is of a document type; comparing, by the computing system, the document type of the received electronic document with the definition of the document type maintained by the computing system in order to identify the one or more allowed actions associated with that document type; presenting the received electronic document to the addressed individual; presenting to the individual the one or more allowed actions associated with the document type of the received electronic document; receiving from the individual a selected action from the one or more allowed actions; and performing the selected action on the received electronic document.