Mobile signature embedded in desktop workflow

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10091003-B2
Application number	US-201615074605-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 18, 2016
Priority date	Mar 18, 2016
Publication date	Oct 2, 2018
Grant date	Oct 2, 2018

Abstract

Systems and methods provide for efficiently obtaining biometric signatures for electronically signing digital documents. A digital document having a signature field is provided for display on a general computing device. An instruction to obtain a biometric signature from a mobile computing device is received on the general computing device. A remote signing request is sent to a remote server device. The request can include, among other things, an electronic contact address associated with the mobile computing device. Responsive to receiving the request, a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is generated, referencing a dynamic application for obtaining the biometric signature on the mobile computing device. The remote server device obtains the biometric signature via the dynamic application or an incoming electronic message from the mobile computing device via the electronic contact address. The biometric signature is communicated to the client device for association with the signature field of the digital document.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer storage medium storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform operations comprising:
receiving, via a displayed graphical user interface (GUI), an instruction to request a biometric signature from a remote computing device for association with a signature field of a displayed digital document;
generating a remote signing request for communication to a remote server device based on the received instruction, wherein communication of the generated remote signing request causes the remote server device to obtain the biometric signature from the remote computing device based on a request sent thereto by the remote server device; and
receiving the obtained biometric signature from the remote server device for association with the signature field of the digital document.

2. The medium of claim 1 , wherein the biometric signature is obtained via an interface that immediately requests the biometric signature when accessed via a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) generated by the remote server device.

3. The medium of claim 2 , wherein the biometric signature includes at least one of a signature vector, a signature file, and a piece of secondary authenticating information.

4. The medium of claim 2 ,
wherein an electronic contact address associated with the remote computing device is included in the generated remote signing request, and wherein the generated URI is sent from the remote server device to the electronic contact address.

5. The medium of claim 4 , wherein
the biometric signature is obtained as an attachment to an electronic message sent from the remote computing device via the electronic contact address.

6. The medium of claim 4 , wherein the electronic contact address is one of a mobile device phone number, an email address, or a social media account identifier.

7. The medium of claim 2 , wherein the URI is generated for a one-time use.

8. The medium of claim 7 , wherein the generated URI includes an expiration period.

9. The medium of claim 1 , wherein the remote computing device is a mobile computing device.

10. The non-transitory computer storage media of claim 1 , wherein the remote server device obtains the biometric signature from the remote computing device without further communication of the digital document.

11. A computerized system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more computer storage media storing computer-usable instructions that, when used by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
receive, via a displayed graphical user interface (GUI), an instruction to obtain a biometric signature from a remote computing device for association with a signature field of a displayed digital document, the received instruction including an electronic contact address associated with the remote computing device;
send a remote signing request associated with the signature field of the displayed digital document to a remote server device, the sent remote signing request causing the remote server device to send, to the electronic contact address, a generated URI that immediately presents at least one option to receive the biometric signature when accessed; and
place the biometric signature into a position that corresponds to the signature field of the digital document based on a receipt of the biometric signature from the remote server device.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the electronic contact address is one of a mobile device phone number, an email address, or a social media account identifier.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein a notice to respond with the biometric signature is sent to the electronic contact address with the generated URI.

14. The system of claim 13 ,
wherein the sent remote signing request further causes the remote server device to receive, from the remote computing device via the electronic contact address, the biometric signature as a file attachment.

15. The system of claim 11 wherein the remote computing device is a mobile computing device.

16. A computer-implemented method to retrieve biometric signatures to electronically sign digital documents, the method comprising:
receiving, by a server device and from a first remote computing device, a request to retrieve a biometric signature from a second remote computing device for association with a signature field of a digital document stored on the first remote computing device;
generating, by the server device, a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that, when accessed by the second remote computing device, causes presentation of an interface that receives the biometric signature for association with the signature field, the URI being generated for communication to the second remote computing device;
sending, by the server device and to the first remote computing device, the biometric signature received from the second remote computing device via the presented interface.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 , wherein the biometric signature is one of a signature vector or a signature file.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 , wherein the request includes an electronic contact address associated with the second remote computing device, wherein the URI is communicated to the electronic contact address, and wherein the biometric signature is received from the electronic contact address.

19. The method of claim 16 , wherein the URI is generated based on cryptographically-strong and randomly-generated strings.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 , wherein the digital document is never communicated to the second remote computing device.

21. A computerized system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more computer storage media storing computer-usable instructions that, when used by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
receive, from a first remote computing device, a request to retrieve a biometric signature from a second remote computing device for association with a signature field of a digital document on the first remote computing device, the request including an electronic contact address associated with the second remote computing device;
initialize, for delivery to the electronic contact address included in the request, an outgoing electronic message including a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that references a dynamic application that immediately presents at least one option to receive the biometric signature for association with the signature field when accessed via the URI;
receive the biometric signature via the dynamic application after the URI is accessed or via a incoming electronic message from the electronic contact address as a response to the outgoing electronic message; and
send, to the first remote computing device, the received biometric signature for association with the signature field of the digital document.

22. The system of claim 21 ,
wherein the URI is generated based on cryptographically-strong and randomly-generated strings.

23. The system of claim 21 , wherein the electronic contact address is a mobile device phone number, wherein the outgoing electronic message is one of a SMS message or a MMS message, and wherein the incoming electronic message is a MMS message.

24. The system of claim 23 ,
wherein a texting service is employed to deliver the outgoing electronic

Assignees

• Adobe Systems Inc

Inventors

• Bhandarkar Mangesh
• Thevenet Frederic
• Sherry David Rudi

Classifications

• H04L9/3247

  involving digital signatures · CPC title

• G06F40/174 Primary

  Form filling; Merging · CPC title

• H04L9/3231 Primary

  Biological data, e.g. fingerprint, voice or retina (network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using biometrical features in a packet data network H04L63/0861) · CPC title

• G06Q10/103 Primary

  Workflow collaboration or project management · CPC title

• H04L2209/68

  Special signature format, e.g. XML format · CPC title