Adobe, Inc.

Jonathan David Herbach

James Donahue

William M Shapiro

Betty Y Koon

Chetan Mehrotra

Gitesh Malik

Varun Sharma

Gary Gilchrist

Dharmendra Kumar

Saurabh Khurana

Shadkam Islam

Ben Sidney Tepfer

A real-time agreement comprehension tool is described. Initially, a user is selected as a signing party to an agreement. A document deployment system enables a computing device associated with the user to access the agreement. The computing device presents the agreement via a display device for digital signing by the user. While the agreement is presented, a voice assistant platform obtains a query from the user about at least a portion of the agreement. Responsive to the query, an agreement comprehension tool of the computing device determines an answer to the query by processing a limited set of documents that are relevant to the portion of the agreement. This limited set of documents includes a corpus of documents corresponding to the authoring organization and previous agreements with which the signing user has interacted. The agreement comprehension tool then causes the answer to be presented for display and/or audibly output.

Real-time agreement comprehension tool

One exemplary embodiment involves receiving a request for a document key for accessing a document on a client device. The request comprises a user identity identifying a requester requesting access to the document. The request also comprises information about the document. The exemplary embodiment further involves determining, at the server, whether access to the document by the requester is permitted. And, the exemplary embodiment further involves, if access to the document is permitted computing, at the server, the document key using the user identity and using the information about the document. The document key is document specific and, prior to the computing of the document key, the document key is not stored for access by the server. The exemplary embodiment further involves responding to the request by providing the document key for use in accessing the document on the client device.

Systems and methods for controlling electronic document use

The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to document access auditing. According to an aspect, the invention involves receiving a request relating to an electronic document associated with a document tracking system; retrieving actions-taken information associated with the electronic document and maintained by the document tracking system; combining and signing the electronic document and the actions-taken information to form a signed document that includes the actions-taken information; and providing the signed document to enable access to the actions-taken information independent of the document tracking system. According to another aspect, the invention involves presenting a consent query that requests consent to an audit event to be recorded by a document control system for an electronic document tethered to the document control system; receiving a consent indication with respect to a consent statement relating to the audit event; and sending information corresponding to the consent indication to the document control system.

Document access auditing

A method and apparatus for automatically administrating access rights for confidential information is disclosure. In one embodiment, access rights are established for at least one user group. Each user group is identified by at least one authentication attribute. In response to verification information from a user requesting access to the confidential information that is stored at a, the verification information is compared with the at least one attribute for the each user group to generate a comparison result. Access to the confidential information by a second computerized device is controlled based on the comparison result and the access rights.

Method and apparatus for automatically administrating access rights for confidential information

Systems and techniques to provide distributed document version control. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: receiving information, in a distributed document control system, specifying a locally saved copy of a first electronic document; determining, in response to the received information, whether the first electronic document should supersede a second electronic document in the distributed document control system; and storing, based on an outcome of the determining, information in the distributed document control system that links the first electronic document with the second electronic document in a superior-subordinate relationship such that when an action is requested with respect to the second, subordinate electronic document, the distributed document control system forces an action to be taken with respect to the first, superior electronic document. Various implementations include those in computer program products and client-server systems.

Distributed document version control

Various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, software, and data structures to allow or prevent viewing of users and groups of users by other users and groups of users. Some such embodiments include retrieving a listing of members from a member database, defining a first subset of one or more members selected from the retrieved member listing, and designating the first member subset as visible to a second subset of one or more members when a member of the second member subset retrieves a member listing.

Mechanism for visible users and groups

Systems and techniques to provide distributed document version control. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: receiving a request to take an action with respect to a distributed electronic document, identifying, in response to the request, information associated with the distributed electronic document, the associated information indicating a second electronic document different from the distributed electronic document, and imparting information concerning the second electronic document to force the action to be taken with respect to the second electronic document. Receiving the request can occur at a server, and the request can be from a client to take the action with respect to the distributed electronic document, retained locally at the client. The associated information can be retained at the server, and imparting the second document information can involve relating the second document information (e.g., the second document or a link to it) from the server to the client.

Systems and techniques to provide transparent authentication integration. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: receiving a request from a client to take an action with respect to an electronic document, in response to the request, obtaining an authentication process, and sending the authentication process to the client for use in identifying a current user and controlling the action with respect to the electronic document based on the current user and document-permissions information associated with the electronic document. Obtaining the authentication process can involve requesting and receiving the authentication process from a second server. The authentication process can use an existing interface provided by the client to communicate authentication information to the server.

Transparent authentication process integration

One exemplary embodiment involves receiving, at a server, a request for a document key for accessing a document on a client device, wherein the request comprises an identity of an access policy and information about the document. The exemplary method further comprises determining, at the server, whether access to the document is permitted according to the access policy. If access to the document is permitted, the exemplary method involves computing, at the server, the document key using the information about the document, wherein the document key is document specific, wherein, prior to the computing of the document key, the document key is not stored for access by the server. The exemplary method further involves responding to the request by providing the document key for use in accessing the document on the client device.

In one embodiment, a data file and policy are generated. The policy is then associated with the data file, wherein the policy includes one or more unassigned accounts and an access control definition that defines an access permission associated with each of the one or more unassigned accounts.

Data file access control

Systems and techniques to provide offline access in a document control system. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: receiving a request from a client, and pre-authorizing the client, in response to the request, to allow actions by a user as a member of a group of users by sending to the client offline access information including a first key associated with the group, the first key being useable at the client to access an electronic document by decrypting a second key in the electronic document. Receiving a request can involve receiving a request from the client to take an action with respect to a second document. The technique can also include verifying the user at the client as an authenticated user, and the offline access information can include user-specific keys, group-specific keys, a policy, and a document revocation list.

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Jonathan David Herbach