Patent Document ID: 9942396
Application ID: 14069674

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented document processing method comprising: saving, in a document repository administered by an electronic signature server, a document received from a document originator, wherein the document includes a plurality of document terms and metadata that defines an electronic signature workflow that calls for the document to be distributed to a document recipient; saving, in the document repository, an audio recording of at least a portion of the document terms that are included within the document; establishing a communication session between the electronic signature server and the document recipient, wherein the communication session enables two-way audio communication between the electronic signature server and the document recipient; sending, from the electronic signature server to the document recipient, via the communication session, the audio recording of at least the portion of the document terms; sending, from the electronic signature server to the document recipient, via the communication session, a request for a spoken assent to the document terms included in the document; prompting the document recipient with an audible request to provide the spoken assent to the document terms included in the document; receiving, by the electronic signature server from the document recipient via the communication session, the spoken assent to the document terms included in the document via the same communication session; saving the spoken assent in the document repository; updating the metadata to establish a logical connection between the document and the spoken assent that is saved in the document repository; and sending, to the document originator, at least one of (a) a modified version of the document that is annotated with an indication of the spoken assent, and (b) the spoken assent.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising logically associating the document with the audio recording in the document repository.