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Trusted and secure techniques, systems and methods for item delivery and execution    
United States Patent6185683   
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Inventor(s)Ginter; Karl L. (Beltsville, MD), Shear; Victor H. (Bethesda, MD), Spahn; Francis J. (El Cerrito, CA), Van Wie; David M. (Sunnyvale, CA), Weber; Robert P. (Menlo Park, CA)
AbstractDocuments and other items can be delivered electronically from sender to recipient with a level of trustedness approaching or exceeding that provided by a personal document courier. A trusted electronic go-between can validate, witness and/or archive transactions while, in some cases, actively participating in or directing the transaction. Printed or imaged documents can be marked using handwritten signature images, seal images, electronic fingerprinting, watermarking, and/or steganography. Electronic commercial transactions and transmissions take place in a reliable, "trusted" virtual distribution environment that provides significant efficiency and cost savings benefits to users in addition to providing an extremely high degree of confidence and trustedness. The systems and techniques have many uses including but not limited to secure document delivery, execution of legal documents, and electronic data interchange (EDI).
   














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Inventor     Ginter; Karl L. (Beltsville, MD) , Shear; Victor H. (Bethesda, MD) , Spahn; Francis J. (El Cerrito, CA) , Van Wie; David M. (Sunnyvale, CA) , Weber; Robert P. (Menlo Park, CA)
Owner/Assignee     InterTrust Technologies Corp. (Santa Clara, CA)
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Publication Date     February 6, 2001
Application Number     09/221,479
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Filing Date     December 28, 1998
US Classification     713/176 705/52 705/77
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Examiner     Barron Jr.; Gilberto
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Attorney/Law Firm     Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner L.L.P.
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Parent Case     CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/699,711, filed Aug. 12, 1996 abandoned, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 08/388,107 filed Feb. 13, 1995 abandoned--all of which are incorporated herein by reference. This application is related to concurrently filed commonly assigned copending application Ser. No. 08/699,712 of Ginter et al. entitled "Trusted Infrastructure Support Systems, Methods and Techniques for Secure Electronic Commerce, Electronic Transactions, Commerce Process Control and Automation, Distributed Computing, and Rights Management" (hereinafter referred to as "Shear et al" to avoid confusion with the "Ginter et al" referenced in the paragraph above). The entire disclosure (including the drawings) of this related Shear et al. patent application is incorporated by reference into this specification as if expressly set forth in this specification.
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USPTO Field of Search     713/176 713/167 705/51 705/52 705/53 705/54 705/51 705/52 705/53 705/54
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