TRACKING AND NOTIFICATION OF FULFILLMENT EVENTS

摘要

An electronic signature system is used to procure one or more electronic signatures on a document. The electronic signature system not only facilitates communication between the document originator and the document recipient, but it also tracks the document status through states such as sent, viewed, executed, and fulfilled. For example, at some point the electronic signature system may receive an incoming notification that an obligation set forth in the signed document has been fulfilled. This incoming fulfillment notification is recorded and the document status is updated accordingly. The electronic signature system can also be configured to generate outgoing fulfillment notifications to announce that an obligation associated with the signed document has been fulfilled. The various notifications and fulfillment events disclosed herein can be tracked so as to allow users to generate status reports that reveal the fulfillment status of a collection of documents administered by the electronic signature.

主权项

1. A method for tracking fulfillment events, the method comprising:
receiving, from a first party, an incoming fulfillment notification that includes a reference to an electronically signed document managed by an electronic signature system, wherein the incoming fulfillment notification indicates that an obligation associated with the document has been fulfilled; recording receipt of the incoming fulfillment notification in an audit data repository that is managed by the electronic signature system; updating a document status data structure to indicate that the document is associated with a fulfilled obligation; and transmitting, to a second party, an outgoing fulfillment notification that identifies the document; wherein at least one of the first and second parties has electronically signed the document.