International Business Machines Corporation

Michael C Mansell

David Franklin Manning

John Michael Boyer

Sonja Christine McLellan

Gal A Shachor

David W Cummings

Avi Yaeli

Asaf Adi

Nili Guy

Yoav Rubin

Charles Marc Gobeil

Robert A Connell

Rachna Juneja Singhal

David Bradley Shapcott

Gilad Moredehi Saadoun

A system for presenting and executing a multiplicity of interactive forms as a single document includes a server having one or more copies of a multi-form package and configured to deliver a copy of the package to a requesting device upon request. The system also includes a client computing device configured to request and receive the multi-form package, the first computing device including an application program and a multi-form document engine configured to receive commands from the application program and, in response, cause forms from the multi-form package to be presented and executed.

Multiplexed forms

The illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for receiving a request from a client to instantiate an electronic document. After successful completion of mutual authentication between a web application server and the client, the web application server provides the electronic document to the client. The web application server may then receive a set of changes associated with the electronic document to form a modified document. After receiving a request from the client for a digital signature to be generated for the modified document, the web application server generates a digital signature using a private key of the web application server and an identity of an end-user associated with the client. The web application server then signs the modified document with the digital signature.

Secure digital signature system

The present invention is a method, system and framework for generating and processing XForms documents. Utilizing the method, system and framework of the present invention, developers need only write loosely coupled components that implement the minimal application-specific interface code, and the method, system and framework coordinates the generation and processing based on a description of the form's lifecycle. It also allows developers to reuse components created for other integrations that implemented the framework. The advantage of the method, system and framework is to significantly reduce development effort to integrate XForms with a vast number of applications, while all known solutions are specific to a single integration case.

Method and system for Xform generation and processing application integration framework

A method of ad hoc trust delegation in human-based workflow systems using one-time access key is provided herein. The method may include the following steps: generating a unique access key to a workflow system in response to a delegation of trust to one or more users; associating the unique access key with a specified portion of a workflow within the workflow system; embedding the unique access key in a message sent to the one or more users; and providing the one or more users with a one-time access to the workflow system, such that the access is limited to the specified portion of the workflow, in response to applying the unique access key to the workflow system.

Ad hoc trust delegation in human based workflow systems using one time access key

A computer implemented method and computer usable program product for embedding rich content of a document in an image. In one embodiment, a static image of the document is generated. If the amount of memory associated with the rich content does not exceed a threshold amount, the rich content is encoded into a single content block according to an image format. If the rich content does exceed the threshold amount, the rich content is encoded into a plurality of content blocks. The content block or the plurality of content blocks are inserted into an arbitrary storage location of the image. The static image is displayed when the image is opened in an absence of an application associated with the rich content of the document. The rich content is displayed when the image is opened in a presence of the application associated with the rich content of the document.

Universal reader

A computer implemented method provides a web service to a client. A document request identifying a web service on a web service server is sent from the client to an application server. The document request is stored at a first location. The application server then sends a proxy document request back to the client, wherein the proxy document request identifies the first location. The client then forwards the proxy document request to a web service. The web service generates a web service response, by resolving the proxy document request to the first location. The web service response is stored at a second location. A proxy web service response can then sent from the web service back to the client, wherein the proxy web service response identifies the second location. The client then forwards the proxy web service response to the application server. The application server generates a document response, by resolving the proxy web service response to the second location. The application server then forwards the document response to the client.

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Michael C Mansell