Computer-implemented method and system for real-time human authorization of digital document lifecycle transitions

1 . A computer-implemented authorization method, comprising:

generating with at least one cryptographic module a first real-time digital authorization artifact based on a first live human authorization event, and emitting the first real-time digital authorization artifact from the at least one cryptographic module;

consuming the first real-time digital authorization artifact at a document entity as an authority access signal in order to trigger a number of lifecycle state transitions of a digital document being represented by the document entity;

generating with the at least one cryptographic module a second real-time digital authorization artifact based on a second live human authorization event, and emitting the second real-time digital authorization artifact from the at least one cryptographic module;

employing the second real-time digital authorization artifact with a temporal query interface in order to resolve requests to access the digital document;

receiving a sequence from an autonomous agent at an authority enforcement module;

preventing the autonomous agent from accessing the digital document because the autonomous agent did not generate the first and second real-time digital authorization artifacts;

receiving the digital document from the document entity after consuming the first real-time digital authorization artifact, receiving a time output from a clock, and binding an authoritative state of the digital document to the time output such that the time output is part of a structural model of the digital document;

governing the authoritative state by a number of time-bound lifecycle state transitions of the digital document with an authority control layer;

structurally enforcing the number of time-bound lifecycle state transitions of the digital document with a lifecycle state machine; and

closing with a resolution engine a number of temporal windows of mutability of the digital document in order to execute the number of time-bound lifecycle state transitions.

2 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 1 , further comprising providing the document entity as being architecturally separated from the at least one cryptographic module.

3 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 1 , further comprising governing the digital document at a moment of creation of the digital document.

4 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 1 , wherein preventing the autonomous agent from accessing the digital document is performed without relying on at least one of an organizational policy, a permission, a workflow label, and a social convention.

5 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 4 , wherein preventing the autonomous agent from accessing the digital document is performed without relying on each of the organizational policy, the permission, the workflow label, and the social convention.

6 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 1 , further comprising locking the first real-time digital authorization artifact into a specific temporal sequence via treating a time output of a clock as a structural primitive rather than metadata.

7 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 6 , further comprising preventing the temporal sequence from being at least one of rewritten, backdated, and reordered.

8 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 7 , further comprising preventing the temporal sequence from being rewritten, backdated, and reordered.

9 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 6 , wherein locking is performed in order to capture a biometric verification, a device binding reference, a specific action requested, and a time coordinate as a structural element, each associated with the first live human authorization event.

10 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 1 , further comprising providing a cryptographically sealed, temporally ordered, and structurally immutable record of the first live human authorization event.

11 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 1 , further comprising providing a plurality of different locations within a computing environment each being at least one of a computer application, a computer folder, a computer drive, and a computer critical action, wherein generating with the at least one cryptographic module and emitting the first real-time digital authorization artifact are each performed responsive to the at least one cryptographic module being toggled on by a user at one of the plurality of different locations.

12 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 11 , further comprising providing the authority enforcement module as an independently deployable module within the computing environment.

13 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 1 , further comprising operating the authority enforcement module without requiring modification of the at least one cryptographic module, the document entity, and the temporal query interface.

14 . The computer-implemented authorization method according to claim 1 , further comprising receiving an authorization challenge at a user device before generating with the at least one cryptographic module the first real-time digital authorization artifact, the authorization challenge being non-replayable and dynamically generated in real-time.