Patent ID: 8083129
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
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 including a spooler at which the document is spooled, 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; 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; and 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 ensuring that the returning document is sent to the organization correctly and marking the returning document with information that allows the returned document to be routed correctly within the organization.