Methods and systems for establishing and enforcing document visibility rights with an electronic signature service

摘要

Techniques for generating and enforcing document visibility rights associated with a document in use with an electronic signature service are described. Consistent with embodiments of the invention, document visibility rights can be established for each person designated to sign and/or receive a copy of a document, and on a per-page, per-document section, or per-source document basis. Additionally, visibility rights may be conditional, such that various events (including the signing of a document) may modify visibility rights making a previously un-viewable page or document section viewable to a particular person.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving at a server operating an electronic signature service a request to view a document package, the server generating document visibility rights defined for one or more persons based on metadata defining visibility rights and signature requirements for at least one source document of the document package; identifying document visibility rights associated with a person having invoked the request to view the document package, the document visibility rights defining a portion of the document package that the person is allowed to view; generating an image of an instance of the document package with only the portion of the document package the person is allowed to view, as indicated by the document visibility rights; and providing the image of the instance of the document package with only the portion of the document package the person is allowed to view to a remote device.