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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2014
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin D. Follis, Redwood City, CA (US);
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
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.