Compliance document creation, modification, and provisioning
View Patent ↗Techniques are provided for facilitating creation, modification, provisioning and transfer of trusted electronic compliance documents. For each of multiple user requests to provide or receive trusted electronic compliance documents, automated operations are performed to determine whether the request is directed to one of a plurality of maintained trusted electronic compliance documents. Each trusted electronic compliance document references information regarding parties to a potential transaction and confers at least partial eligibility for parties to participate in the potential transaction. When it is determined that the request is directed to a maintained trusted electronic compliance document, access to the indicated trusted electronic compliance document is provided, including modifying a copy of the indicated trusted electronic compliance document to include information referenced with respect to an entity associated with the user request and an originator of the trusted electronic compliance document. A secure interface is provided for creating an indicated compliance document when it is determined that the request is not directed to a maintained compliance document.
1. A method for providing a document provisioning service, the method comprising:
electronically maintaining, in a member database, data regarding trusted electronic document originators;
electronically maintaining, in a trusted electronic compliance document database, on behalf of the trusted electronic document originators a plurality of trusted electronic documents that include information associated with parties to transactions and potential transactions;
electronically facilitating creation of at least some of the plurality of trusted electronic documents by at least some trusted electronic document originators, wherein a given trusted electronic document references information regarding one or more parties to a potential transaction and confers at least partial eligibility to participate in the potential transaction for at least one of the one or more parties only after the at least one of the one or more parties provides the information referenced by the trusted electronic document and the trusted electronic document is modified to include the provided information;
electronically receiving a user request for an indicated trusted electronic document and electronically determining whether the user request is directed to one or more of the maintained plurality of trusted electronic documents; and
when it is determined that the indicated trusted electronic document is one of the maintained plurality of trusted electronic documents, electronically providing access to the indicated trusted electronic document in response to the received user request, wherein providing access to the indicated trusted electronic document includes modifying a copy of the indicated trusted electronic document to include at least some information referenced by the indicated trusted electronic document prior to the modification with respect to one or more of a group that includes an entity associated with the user request and a trusted electronic document originator associated with the indicated trusted electronic document;
providing, in response to electronically determining that the user request is not directed to one or more of the maintained plurality of trusted electronic documents, a secure interface for creation of the indicated trusted electronic document via a trusted electronic document creation portal, wherein providing the secure interface for creation of the indicated trusted electronic document includes:
electronically transmitting an electronic invitation over one or more computer networks to one or more trusted electronic document originators for use of the trusted electronic document creation portal; and
after transmitting the electronic invitation to the one or more trusted electronic document originators, receiving, via a software application that is associated with the document provisioning service and that is executing on a client computing device of the one or more trusted electronic document originators, information, including an image file that at least partially defines the indicated trusted electronic document from at least one of the one or more trusted electronic document originators.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indicated trusted electronic document is one of a group that includes a tax exemption certificate, a tax withholding form, an excise license, a business license, and a certificate of insurance.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user request is received by the trusted electronic document request manager via a software application executing on a client computing device of a user associated with the user request.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein providing access to the indicated trusted electronic document further includes determining whether the modified copy of the indicated trusted electronic document is completed and, when it is determined that the modified copy of the indicated trusted electronic document is completed, forwarding the modified copy of the indicated trusted electronic document to one or more entities associated with the potential transaction.
5. The method of claim 1 , in which the trusted electronic document is a certificate and the eligibility that the trusted electronic document confers is eligibility for the at least one of the one or more parties to be exempt from one or more items regarding the potential transaction.
6. A system, comprising:
one or more processors; and
at least one memory, the memory including instructions that, upon execution by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations including:
electronically maintaining, in a member database, data regarding trusted electronic document originators;
electronically maintaining, in a trusted electronic compliance document database, on behalf of the trusted electronic document originators a plurality of trusted electronic documents that include information associated with parties to transactions and potential transactions;
electronically facilitating creation of at least some of the plurality of trusted electronic documents by at least some trusted electronic document originators, wherein a given trusted electronic document references information regarding one or more parties to a potential transaction and confers at least partial eligibility to participate in the potential transaction for at least one of the one or more parties only after the at least one of the one or more parties provides the information referenced by the trusted electronic document and the trusted electronic document is modified to include the provided information;
electronically receiving a user request for an indicated trusted electronic document and electronically determining whether the user request is directed to one or more of the maintained plurality of trusted electronic documents; and
when it is determined that the indicated trusted electronic document is one of the maintained plurality of trusted electronic documents, electronically providing access to the indicated trusted electronic document in response to the received user request, wherein providing access to the indicated trusted electronic document includes modifying a copy of the indicated trusted electronic document to include at least some information referenced by the indicated trusted electronic document prior to the modification with respect to one or more of a group that includes an entity associated with the user request and a trusted electronic document originator associated with the indicated trusted electronic document;
providing, in response to electronically determining that the user request is not directed to one or more of the maintained plurality of trusted electronic documents, a secure interface for creation of the indicated trusted electronic document via a trusted electronic document creation portal, wherein providing the secure interface for creation of the indicated trusted electronic document includes:
transmitting an electronic invitation over one or more computer networks to one or more trusted electronic document originators for use of the trusted electronic document creation portal; and
after transmitting the electronic invitation to the one or more trusted electronic document originators, receiving, via a software application that is associated with the document provisioning service and that is executing on a client computing device of the one or more trusted electronic document originators, information, including an image file that at least partially defines the indicated trusted electronic document from at least one of the one or more trusted electronic document originators.
7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the indicated trusted electronic document is one of a group that includes a tax exemption certificate, a tax withholding form, an excise license, a business license, and a certificate of insurance.
8. The system of claim 6 , wherein the user request is received by the trusted electronic document request manager via a software application executing on a client computing device of a user associated with the user request.
9. The system of claim 6 , wherein providing access to the indicated trusted electronic document further includes determining whether the modified copy of the indicated trusted electronic document is completed and, when it is determined that the modified copy of the indicated trusted electronic document is completed, forwarding the modified copy of the indicated trusted electronic document to one or more entities associated with the potential transaction.