Document signing systems and methods

摘要

A system and method for enabling electronic signing of an unsigned electronic document over the internet or similar network. Responsive to receipt of document and signer information from a document sender, a document execution server makes available to all signer users over a network, the unsigned electronic document, together with signature fields in the document. The document execution server receives over the network, from one or more of the signer users, signature data representative of signer user signatures associated with the respective signature fields of the unsigned electronic document. Responsive to receipt of the signature data from one or more of the signer users, the document execution server generates a signed electronic document corresponding to the unsigned electronic document.

主权项

1. A method for enabling electronic signing of an unsigned electronic document over a network, wherein the unsigned electronic document includes content displayable to one or more signer users as text and/or graphics on one or more pages, and one or more signature fields at one or more locations on the pages, wherein the signature fields are adapted to receive a signature of one of said signer users, comprising the steps of:
(a) receiving over the network the unsigned electronic document from a document sender via a document execution server together with signer party data representative of the identities of one or more signer users who are to sign the unsigned electronic document, (b) making available the unsigned electronic document to all signer users over the network via said document execution server together with a dynamic online signature entry pad associated with each signature field in the unsigned electronic document, said dynamic online signature entry pad also made available over the network via said document execution server, (c) receiving signature data over the network from one or more of the signer users via said document execution server, the signature data representative of one or more biometric actions by the respective signer users corresponding to entry of signer user signatures to the dynamic signature entry pads associated with the respective signature fields of the unsigned electronic document, and (d) generating a signed electronic document corresponding to the unsigned electronic document in response to receipt of the signature data from one or more of the signer users, wherein the signed electronic document includes information representative of the signatures of the signer users, and wherein the signed electronic document is displayable to signer users with the text and/or graphic content and signature fields of the unsigned electronic document and a graphical representation of the received signature data in the respective signature fields.