Patent ID: 8341141

Claim:
A method for automatic registration of electronic documents, comprising: receiving an original electronic document via a first application stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium on a target network device with one or more processors; automatically applying via the first application a first set of electronic document registration rules to the original electronic document, wherein the first set of electronic document registration rules include document registration rules applied to all electronic document being registered via an automatic document registration system, thereby creating a first level modified electronic document; automatically applying via the first application a second set of electronic document registration rules to the first level modified electronic document thereby creating a second level modified electronic document, wherein the second set of electronic document registration rules include local document registration rules applied only via the application on the target network device; automatically transforming via the first application the second level modified electronic document into a secure electronic document storage format using a pre-determined set of electronic document transformation rules thereby creating a secure transformed electronic document; automatically generating via the first application a plurality of electronic document registration codes for the secure transformed electronic document, wherein the plurality of electronic document registration codes includes an unalterable date and time stamp, an identification code and one or more encryption codes; and securely transferring the secure transformed electronic document via the first application from the target network device via a communications network to a server network device with one or more processors, one or more databases and a second application executing in a second non-transitory computer readable medium on the sever network device, wherein the secure transformed electronic document is stored in the one or more databases and can be viewed via other target devices via the communications network without the ability to tamper with the information within the secure transformed electronic document thereby providing an automatic secure electronic document registration system.