IP Library Granted Patent US 7,769,712
Granted Patent B2
US 7,769,712 · App. 11/773,368 · Granted Aug 3, 2010

Document validation system and method

Assignee: Decernis, LLC
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Patent No.
US 7,769,712
App. No.
11/773,368
Granted
Aug 3, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates generally to the field of self-validating documents in supply chain management, documentation services and method for creating the same.

Claims (12)

1. A method for creating a customized certification document associated with a user of a compilation service, the customized certification document providing a compilation which includes at least one of the group consisting of regulatory standards, industry standards, warning statements, proper use statements, chemical properties, biological properties, toxicological properties, infectious properties, and compliance certification documents, said compilation being in the form of at least one of electronic documents and hyperlinks to said documents, comprising the steps of:

receiving at least one of a personalized profile and a search query from the user via a network, wherein at least one of the personalized profile and the search query includes identification which includes at least one of the group consisting of a certification providing party, a material of interest to the user, a topic of interest to the user and a standards-maintaining party;

creating a customized certification document at a network computer, wherein the network computer is programmed to create the customized certification document by:

dividing the certification document to be created into a plurality of sections wherein at least one of the plurality of sections contains content related to one or more indexed certification documents and extracted data identified in response to at least one of the personalized profile and search query, wherein the indexed certification documents includes at least one compliance certification document prepared by a certification supplying party;

searching one or more indexed certification documents and extracted data using at least one of the group consisting of the personalized profile and search query provided by the user;

fetching content related to any indexed certification documents or extracted data identified in the searching step; and

populating the one or more of the plurality of sections with the content fetched to produce a customized certification document; and

making the customized certification document available to the user by at least one of the group consisting of transmission over the network and direct delivery.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein one of the search query is associated with a material and the customized certification document created is produced by associating the search query with a cross-reference selected from a proper name, an identifier, a translation, a synonym, a member of a parent class or any combination thereof found within a certification document that is indexed by cross-referencing the search term and wherein the certification document is in the same language or a different language from the search term.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising selecting, within at least one of the group consisting of the personalized profile and search query, identification at least one of the group consisting of a country, a regulation, a physiochemical property, toxicology property, an end use a material, and a topic to further define the customized certification document to be created.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the customized certification document is formatted in a manner permitting the user to provide at least a portion of the customized certificate statement to a certification receiving party.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the customized certification document includes identification of changes in the customized certification document or in information from which the customized certification document was generated after a first time the user accesses the customized certification document.

Assignments (6)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 10, 2020
From: GOLUB CAPITAL LLC
To: DECERNIS LLC
Reel/Frame 054606/0489 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 8, 2020
From: DECERNIS LLC
To: GOLUB CAPITAL MARKETS LLC, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 054579/0673 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jul 15, 2019
From: DECERNIS LLC
To: GOLUB CAPITAL LLC, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 049755/0992 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL AT REEL/FRAME NO. 30219/0735 Recorded Jan 29, 2016
From: INTERTEK USA, INC.
To: DECERNIS, LLC
Reel/Frame 037650/0692 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 15, 2013
From: DECERNIS LLC
To: INTERTEK USA, INC.
Reel/Frame 030219/0735 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 22, 2007
From: WALDO, ANDREW B.; ZOU, YONG; RAVEN, CLIVE; KENNY, KEVIN
To: DECERNIS, LLC.
Reel/Frame 019992/0536 →
Continuity (4)
Continuation In Part 1161481100 · Dec 21, 2006
Provisional Application 6075298000 · Dec 21, 2005
Provisional Application 6075589700 · Dec 30, 2005
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