Patents Assigned to DocuSign, Inc.
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Patent number: 12231250Abstract: An agenda dictating a sequence of actions to occur during a conference associated with a plurality of participants is accessed. The sequence of actions is associated with an electronic signature envelope. Content shared by a sharing participant of the conference is monitored for content corresponding to a given action of the sequence. Responsive to detecting the content corresponding to the given action, an acting participant for the given action is determined and data obtained from sensors of a client device of the acting participant is monitored. It is determined that the data indicates that the acting participant has performed the given action and an auditable data structure reflective of the data is generated. The content shared by the sharing participant of the conference is automatically modified to include content corresponding to a next action of the sequence of actions.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Joseph Ramoutar, Billy Travis Williams, David Soh
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Patent number: 12222975Abstract: A system predicts metadata attributes associated with documents using machine learning models. The document may represent an interaction between entities. The system trains machine learning models to predict scores indicating whether a token or a sequence of token of a document represents a metadata attribute. The metadata prediction is used to annotate the document and display to users. The system receives user feedback via the user interface and uses the user feedback to evaluate or retrain the model. The system generates training data by receiving a set of annotated documents and comparing the annotated documents against other documents to identify matching documents. The system determines when to execute the machine learning based metadata prediction based on steps of document workflow executed by the system.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: Kaushik Narayanan, David Matthew Wong, David Lange, Vinay Jethava, Qing Zheng, Mohammad Mehdi Ghanimifard, Pontus Lindstrom, Gowtham Rangarajan Raman, David DeBarr, Yan He
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Patent number: 12223254Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for detecting that a requesting user is transmitting a request to a recipient user to perform one or more tasks with respect to a secure document. The system extracts features associated with the secure document and inputs the features into a machine learning model that outputs one or more probabilities corresponding to a potential failure of the request. Based on the one or more probabilities, the system generates one or more feature modification activities to improve a likelihood of the recipient user completing the request. The system provides the one or more feature modification activities to at least one of the requesting user and the recipient user.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: Soroush Salehian, William Pittman, John Barcellos, Santiago Szuchmacher, Chris Marshall, Jeong Woo Chang, Dylan Ray Häs
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Patent number: 12222899Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for automatic content upload and process. The system retrieves a set of files from a source location based on instructions received from a client device of a user. The system then classifies the set of files into a plurality of categories corresponding to a sequence of one or more services configured to process or store files. The system then generates a data structure storing key values, where the key values are derived based on respective processing of subsets of files. Responsive to receiving an input to execute logic relating to the set of files, the system determines that the input is associated with one or more of the key values, retrieves the one or more of the key values, and executing the logic using the one or more retrieved key values.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Seth, Mark Rollins
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Patent number: 12218772Abstract: A centralized document system integrates online document execution and conferencing to control access to precipitant information. Precipitant information includes access codes, personal identification numbers, sensitive information, or any other secured information for which execution of an online document is a prerequisite for access to the secured information. The centralized document system detects precipitant information that is presented during a conference and controls access to the detected precipitant information (e.g., by generating permission rules that specify a type of online document to be executed to gain access). The centralized document system may determine whether a user has executed one or more online documents and thus, has authorization to access the detected precipitant information. If the user has not executed the online documents, the centralized document system can control access to the precipitant information by modifying the conference (e.g., using censors or breakout rooms).Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Joseph Ramoutar, Dorra Belhadj Ali, David Soh, Angel Azmavet Garcia Reyes, Billy Travis Williams, Ellis David Berner
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Patent number: 12216992Abstract: A system and method for electronic document management including: creating an executable document object, wherein the executable document object comprises at least one programmable element; constructing an interaction schema object, wherein each interaction schema comprises: executable logic and a trigger as part of an inbound interaction schema or an outbound interaction schema that associates an external resource with the executable document object; and bundling the interaction schema object with the executable document object.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Roberts, Daniel Charles Selman, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Jerome Simeon
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Patent number: 12210815Abstract: Information identifying a message scanning system is encoded into URLs. A document management system can decode the identifying information to verify that a document accessed via a URL was accessed by a trusted entity rather than by an unknown user. The document management system sends a message including a URL to access a document. When a message scanning system known to the document management system reviews the message for threats, it encodes its identity into a modified form of the URL in the message and uses the modified URL to access the resource. The document management system can decode the identity of the messaging system using a decoding key. Based on the identification, the document management system updates records associated with the document to include the document acce by the message scanning system.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: DOCUSIGN, INC.Inventors: David Steeves, Andrew Charles Pope, Michael William Cummings, Thomaz DeSouza, Nicholas Mitchell
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Patent number: 12210819Abstract: A document management system identifies policies specific to an entity's domain and applies relevant policies to documents managed by the entity. The document management system identifies a portion of the document with a triggering property associated with the entity's domain and tags that portion with an application programming interface (API) plug-in. After the document is transmitted to a recipient, the document management system activates the API plug-in. The API plug-in runs a function on the document, applying a subset of the entity's policies to the document.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: DOCUSIGN, INC.Inventors: Blake Thomas Walsh, Jeffrey Brennan
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Patent number: 12210575Abstract: A document management system analyzes document clauses using document clause clusters. The document management system uses measures of similarity between document clauses from different documents to assign clauses to clause clusters. Clause clusters may be used to perform various analyses, such as to assign clauses a classification corresponding to a relevant clause cluster. The document management system provides analyses performed using document clause clusters for user review, such as to approve clause clusters, classify clause clusters, modify clause clusters, or some combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Patrick Slattery, James Kenneth Wagner, Jr.
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Patent number: 12198212Abstract: A system and method for transitioning a distributed ledger network according to a legal contract that includes: establishing a contract, which comprises generating a set of programmable clauses for the contract by implementing a templating system comprised of a template model that contains the logic of each programmable clause of the set of programmable clauses; operating a distributed ledger network between participants, wherein the distributed ledger network is configured with an application model that maps to the template model; updating the contract state; updating the distributed ledger network according to the application model; in response to at least one update to the contract state, recording an update to the distributed ledger network; and in response to at least one contract-associated update in the distributed ledger network, initiating execution of at least one programmable clause of the contract and recording a subsequent update to the distributed ledger network.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Jerome Simeon
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Patent number: 12192190Abstract: A system and method are described in which a document transaction management platform coordinates performance of trust actions across a plurality of trust service providers. For example, a method can include operations executing on a connector module in communication with a digital transaction management platform and a trust service provider, such as the following. Receiving, from the digital transaction management platform, a transaction request including a token and a requested trust action. Accessing user information for a recipient involved in the requested trust action using the token. Obtaining, from the digital transaction management platform, transaction data associated with the requested trust action. Coordinating, with the trust service provider, performance of the trust action on at least a portion of the transaction data. Transmitting, to the digital transaction management platform, a proof received from the trust service provider confirming performance of the trust action.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: David Steeves, Gregory J. Alger, Joshua D. Wise, Jayson C. McCleery, Peleg Atar, Ezer Farhi, Ryan J. Cox
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Patent number: 12190043Abstract: An auto-tagging engine receives a training set of data comprising documents including a set of tagged fields with each tagged field corresponding to a portion of the document. The auto-tagging engine trains a machine learned model using the training set of data. The trained machine learned model, when applied to a target document in a document management environment, identifies portions of the target document each corresponding to fields of the target document. For each field of the target document, the auto-tagging engine identifies text of the target document associated with the identified portions of the target document corresponding to fields. Natural language processing is performed on the identified text in order to identify field types for the fields. The target document is automatically modified to include a tag identifying the portion of the target document corresponding to each field and identifying a field type of the field.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: Shrinivas Kiran Kaza, Eric M. Zenz, Roshan Satish, Michael Anthony Palazzolo, Patrick Beukema, Kim Cuong Phung, Boon Sun Song, Taiwo Raphael Alabi
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Patent number: 12165435Abstract: A document management system performs name matching operations to validate an identity claimed by a recipient of a document. To validate a claimed identity the document management system compares name data obtained from an identity data source with name data corresponding to a recipient entity of a document to determine whether name features of the identity source name data match recipient name data. The name matching operations may include applying a set of name matching rules to the identity source name data and the recipient name data to determine whether features that differ between the identity source name data and the recipient name data are acceptable alternative representations. Responsive to successfully validating the identity, the system may authorize the recipient to perform actions on the document. Identity source name data may be received from a variety of identity data sources, such as an identity document or a trusted service provider.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: DocuSign, Inc.Inventors: Renaud Louis Bordier, John James Kostovski, Emmanuel Montacutelli, Thibault de Valroger, Erwann Abalea
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Patent number: 12159100Abstract: Techniques for obtaining electronic signatures via word processing applications are described. One approach utilizes a code module, also referred to as a “markup module,” that executes within a word processing application and that facilitates the preparation of a document for electronic signature. A user can operate the word processing application together with the markup module in order to add signature tag markers to the document and to provide recipient information about intended signers, such as names and email addresses. Once the document has been prepared, the code module transmits the document (including the added signature tag markers) and the recipient information to a digital transaction service. The digital transaction service then manages the signing of the document, such as by notifying the recipient, receiving the recipient's signature and securely storing the signature in association with the document.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: DocuSign, Inc.Inventors: Inbar Gazit, Joe Cartano, Jenson Yan, Lahini Arunachalam, Tamara Solorzano Tejeda
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Publication number: 20240362276Abstract: A document management system can include an artificial intelligence-based document manager that can perform one or more predictive operations based on characteristics of a user, a document, a user account, or historical document activity. For instance, the document management system can apply a machine-learning model to determine how long an expiring agreement document is likely to take to renegotiate and can prompt a user to begin the renegotiation process in advance. The document management system can detect a change to language in a particular clause type and can prompt a user to update other documents that include the clause type to include the change. The document management system can determine a type of a document being worked on and can identify one or more actions that a corresponding user may want to take using a machine-learning model trained on similar documents and similar users.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: DocuSign, Inc.Inventors: Christina Silva Hamlin, David Minoru Hirotsu, Saul Adams Aguilar, Dia A. Abulzahab, Mangesh Prabhakar Bhandarkar, Isaac John Steiner, Michael Wayne Fountain, William Gerard Wetherell, Iqra Anjum, Celine Beck, Robert Michael Johnson, Yiting Zheng, Thierry Bonfante, Madhubala Rawat, Samuel J. Cicero
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Publication number: 20240354677Abstract: Through a workflow interface, a document management system enables a user to establish a document workflow. The document workflow establishes a set of document actions for the document management system to perform automatically in response to a request from the user. The user defines the document workflow by selecting from a set of workflow operations and specifying parameters for the selected workflow operation. The user additionally defines an approval workflow operation and a rejection workflow operation that designate document actions in the event that a document is approved or rejected, respectively. The document management system performs at least a portion of the document workflow in an order determined from the workflow interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: DocuSign, Inc.Inventors: Carlos Manuel Garrido, Andre Makram, Mohamed Gomaa, John Jason Leahy, Reetika Jain, Hailey Veronica Dhanens, Praveen Alluri, Sean Smith, Jeremy Michael Turinetti, Dunja Hadzimusic, Ikwuagwu Emole, Deepinder Badesha, Dania Michele Marinshaw, Megan Elizabeth Schwarz, Michelle Lam, Chadwick Taylor Roffey, Kyle Anthony Uhelski, Iqra Anjum, Aylin Selcukoglu
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Publication number: 20240346795Abstract: An electronic document system can allow users to upload a document package containing multiple individual component documents. Each component document includes a subset of a plurality of pages that are included in the document package. The electronic document system identifies a page of each component document by applying a machine learning model to the document package. The electronic document system partitions the document package into the individual component documents based on the identified pages. For each individual component document, the electronic document system identifies a document topic corresponding to the component document by applying another machine learning model. The electronic document system modifies a user interface to display each component document and corresponding document topic.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Applicant: DocuSign, Inc.Inventors: Shrinivas Kiran Kaza, Taiwo Raphael Alabi, Ashwath Mohan, Varsha Sri Raghavan, Kim Cuong Phung
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Patent number: 12118299Abstract: A system configures, executes, and monitors document workflows executing using workflow engines executing on cloud platforms. The system generates a platform independent document workflow specification that describes a document workflow configured for execution on any of a plurality of workflow engines, each workflow engine executing on a cloud platform. The system compiles the platform independent document workflow specification to generate a platform specific document workflow specification configured for execution on a target workflow engine executing on a target cloud platform. A document workflow orchestration runtime executes and monitors the execution of the platform specific document workflow specification.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: Israel Hilerio, Jeffrey Taihana Tuatini, Kyle Bastien, Sahitya Gollapudi, Zurka Wolford, Christian Joshua Mora
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Patent number: 12093798Abstract: A computing system remotely trains a public ensemble model of an artificial intelligence model management system. The system receives, by the model management system, an encrypted representation of a private data value from a client system. The encrypted representation includes annotation information provided by the client system. The system determines, using the encrypted representation and the annotation information, a data value cluster that corresponds to the private data value. Data value clusters are generated using encrypted representations of a private data values provided by client systems. The system obtains, based on the assigned data value cluster, an encrypted representation of a model. The model is trained remotely by the client system using the private data value. The system adds the encrypted representation of the model to the public ensemble model. The public ensemble model is generated using a plurality of encrypted representations of models remotely trained by the client systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: DocuSign, Inc.Inventor: Kevin Gidney
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Patent number: RE50142Abstract: Systems and methods for distributed electronic signature documents. A method for distributed electronic signature documents includes creating a signing template that contains information about how a signable document is to be signed. A signable document is created to be distributed to a signer for signing. The signable document is electronically transmitted to the signer. A message is sent using an activatable control in the signing document to a web signing server to invoke the signing process. A browser window is opened on a signer's computer in order to execute the signing process.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: Andrew D. McCabe, Thomas H. Gonser, Jr.