Patent Document ID: 7711142
Application ID: 11408445

Base Claim:
1. A method for configuring a digital signature appearance graphic into an electronic document, the method being embodied as instructions executed by one or more computer processors, the method comprising the Steps of: one or more computer processors generating a composition environment for configuring a digital signature appearance where said composition environment comprises a composition window separate from said electronic document and tools for said configuring, said composition window and said electronic document being superimposed where a composition window placement is movable with respect to said electronic document during said configuring; one or more computer processors using said composition environment to configure said digital signature appearance in said composition window; one or more computer processors associating an absolute scale to said digital signature appearance where said absolute scale and said composition window placement facilitate alignment of elements of said digital signature appearance with elements of said electronic document; and one or more computer processors using said composition environment to specify a reference point in said composition window, whereby locations of said elements of said digital signature appearance are relative to said reference point and said reference point being operable for use as a placement origin point.

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Claim 2:
2. The digital signature method of claim 1 , in which said Step of graphic configuring further comprises the Step of determining a graphic scaling factor that said digital signature appearance will be displayed at.