Patent ID: 8775395

Claim:
A method of managing document workflow, comprising: generating a plurality of nonces, each nonce for providing participant access for a corresponding step of the document workflow; for each nonce of the plurality of nonces: if a step of the document workflow preceding that nonce's corresponding step requires only one of one or more participants of that preceding step to release that preceding step: assigning that nonce to each of those one or more participants of that preceding step; and if a step of the document workflow preceding that nonce's corresponding step requires more than one of a first number of participants of that preceding step to release that preceding step: generating a number of nonce elements equal to the first number, wherein that nonce is determinate from a number of those nonce elements that is greater than or equal to a second number and less than or equal to the first number; and assigning those nonce elements to the first number of participants of that preceding step in a one-to-one correspondence.