Patent ID: 8359400

Claim:
A method, comprising: establishing, by a transaction processing system, a link between a first party and a second party, the link being associated with one or more format rules, registered with the transaction processing system by the first party, specifying a document format and one or more business rules, registered with the transaction processing system by the second party, specifying how to process document content; receiving, by the transaction processing system, a document from the first party in association with the link; extracting, by the transaction processing system, multiple portions of content of the document; determining, by the transaction processing system, whether each of the extracted multiple portions of content satisfies the one or more business rules registered with the transaction processing system by the second party in association with the link; accepting, by the transaction processing system, one or more of the extracted multiple portions determined to satisfy the one or more business rules; rejecting, by the transaction processing system, one or more of the extracted multiple portions determined not to satisfy the one or more business rules; and delivering, by the transaction processing system, the accepted portions and not the rejected portions of the extracted content to the second party via the link.