Patent Document ID: 8065527
Application ID: 11687592

Base Claim:
1. A method for embedding a written signature into a secure electronic document, comprising: forming a placeholder electronic document containing content to be attested to by a signature; selecting a signing individual from a signer list; placing a signature tag into the placeholder electronic document at a selected signature location, wherein the signature tag is associated with the signing individual and defines the signature location within the placeholder electronic document for the signing individual to sign; securing the placeholder electronic document to form the secure electronic document having content configured to be uneditable; sizing an unsigned signature bounding box on a signature capture device based on a type of the signature tag at the signature location, wherein the signature bounding box is displayed independently of a display of the secure electronic document; and capturing a signature with the signature capture device within the signature bounding box as the signature is written by the signing individual, the signature capture device being configured to enable the signing individual to write the signature to be embedded into the secure electronic document at the signature location indicated by the signature tag to mimic a real world experience of signing paper documents.

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Claim 5:
5. A method as in claim 1 , further comprising adding a plurality of signing individuals to the signer list to enable the signature tag to be associated with one of the plurality of signing individuals, and verifying that the plurality of signing individuals added to the list includes no duplicate names using a signer list module.