Patents by Inventor Daniel Charles Selman

Daniel Charles Selman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12373474
    Abstract: A document management system utilizes document models for querying, validating, and customizing electronic agreement documents. Document models can be a data structure including document attributes that represent an agreement document. Examples of document attributes include customizable data values, conditions related to the operation of the agreement document and satisfiable by certain values of the customized data values, and rendering parameters for the appearance of the electronic agreement document. The document management system enables a user to create custom document models for generating electronic agreement documents that can be queried, validated, and customized through querying, validating, and customizing the corresponding document models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Docusign, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander B. Berger, Jerome Simeon, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Richard Tkachuk, Matthew Roberts
  • Publication number: 20250225600
    Abstract: A document management system utilizes document models for querying, validating, and customizing electronic agreement documents. Document models can be a data structure including document attributes that represent an agreement document. Examples of document attributes include customizable data values, conditions related to the operation of the agreement document and satisfiable by certain values of the customized data values, and rendering parameters for the appearance of the electronic agreement document. The document management system enables a user to create custom document models for generating electronic agreement documents that can be queried, validated, and customized through querying, validating, and customizing the corresponding document models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander B. Berger, Jerome Simeon, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Richard Tkachuk, Matthew Roberts
  • Patent number: 12340433
    Abstract: A document management system utilizes document models for querying, validating, and customizing electronic agreement documents. Document models can be a data structure including document attributes that represent an agreement document. Examples of document attributes include customizable data values, conditions related to the operation of the agreement document and satisfiable by certain values of the customized data values, and rendering parameters for the appearance of the electronic agreement document. The document management system enables a user to create custom document models for generating electronic agreement documents that can be queried, validated, and customized through querying, validating, and customizing the corresponding document models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Docusign, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander B. Berger, Jerome Simeon, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Richard Tkachuk, Matthew Roberts
  • Publication number: 20250181574
    Abstract: A system and method for managing an electronic contract for hybrid runtime execution, which includes a contract execution service that comprises an internal runtime environment and a set of integrations to external resources with at least one integration to an on-chain runtime, wherein the contract execution service comprises configuration to: establish the electronic contract, wherein the electronic contract comprises a set of executable programmable components and a set of natural language components; change the state of the electronic contract and generate a contract event; and in response to the contract event: extend execution of the electronic contract to an on-chain environment, when the contract event includes an associated on-chain integration; and extend execution of the electronic contract to an external application resource, when the contract event includes an associated external service integration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Jerome Simeon, Matthew Roberts
  • Patent number: 12259876
    Abstract: A system and method for managing an electronic contract for hybrid runtime execution, which includes a contract execution service that comprises an internal runtime environment and a set of integrations to external resources with at least one integration to an on-chain runtime, wherein the contract execution service comprises configuration to: establish the electronic contract, wherein the electronic contract comprises a set of executable programmable components and a set of natural language components; change the state of the electronic contract and generate a contract event; and in response to the contract event: extend execution of the electronic contract to an on-chain environment, when the contract event includes an associated on-chain integration; and extend execution of the electronic contract to an external application resource, when the contract event includes an associated external service integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Docusign, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Jerome Simeon, Matthew Roberts
  • Patent number: 12216992
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Docusign, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Roberts, Daniel Charles Selman, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Jerome Simeon
  • Patent number: 12198212
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Docusign, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Jerome Simeon
  • Patent number: 12056947
    Abstract: A document management system utilizes document models for querying, validating, and customizing electronic agreement documents. Document models can be a data structure including document attributes that represent an agreement document. Examples of document attributes include customizable data values, conditions related to the operation of the agreement document and satisfiable by certain values of the customized data values, and rendering parameters for the appearance of the electronic agreement document. The document management system enables a user to create custom document models for generating electronic agreement documents that can be queried, validated, and customized through querying, validating, and customizing the corresponding document models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: DOCUSIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander B. Berger, Jerome Simeon, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Richard Tkachuk, Matthew Roberts
  • Publication number: 20240143909
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: DocuSign, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Roberts, Daniel Charles Selman, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Jerome Simeon
  • Patent number: 11886810
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: DocuSign, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Roberts, Daniel Charles Selman, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Jerome Simeon
  • Publication number: 20240028587
    Abstract: A system and method for managing an electronic contract for hybrid runtime execution, which includes a contract execution service that comprises an internal runtime environment and a set of integrations to external resources with at least one integration to an on-chain runtime, wherein the contract execution service comprises configuration to: establish the electronic contract, wherein the electronic contract comprises a set of executable programmable components and a set of natural language components; change the state of the electronic contract and generate a contract event; and in response to the contract event: extend execution of the electronic contract to an on-chain environment, when the contract event includes an associated on-chain integration; and extend execution of the electronic contract to an external application resource, when the contract event includes an associated external service integration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Jerome Simeon, Matthew Roberts
  • Publication number: 20230351535
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Jerome Simeon
  • Patent number: 11789933
    Abstract: A system and method for managing an electronic contract for hybrid runtime execution, which includes a contract execution service that comprises an internal runtime environment and a set of integrations to external resources with at least one integration to an on-chain runtime, wherein the contract execution service comprises configuration to: establish the electronic contract, wherein the electronic contract comprises a set of executable programmable components and a set of natural language components; change the state of the electronic contract and generate a contract event; and in response to the contract event: extend execution of the electronic contract to an on-chain environment, when the contract event includes an associated on-chain integration; and extend execution of the electronic contract to an external application resource, when the contract event includes an associated external service integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DOCUSIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Jerome Simeon, Matthew Roberts
  • Publication number: 20230298118
    Abstract: A document management system utilizes document models for querying, validating, and customizing electronic agreement documents. Document models can be a data structure including document attributes that represent an agreement document. Examples of document attributes include customizable data values, conditions related to the operation of the agreement document and satisfiable by certain values of the customized data values, and rendering parameters for the appearance of the electronic agreement document. The document management system enables a user to create custom document models for generating electronic agreement documents that can be queried, validated, and customized through querying, validating, and customizing the corresponding document models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander B. Berger, Jerome Simeon, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Richard Tkachuk, Matthew Roberts
  • Publication number: 20230297604
    Abstract: A document management system utilizes document models for querying, validating, and customizing electronic agreement documents. Document models can be a data structure including document attributes that represent an agreement document. Examples of document attributes include customizable data values, conditions related to the operation of the agreement document and satisfiable by certain values of the customized data values, and rendering parameters for the appearance of the electronic agreement document. The document management system enables a user to create custom document models for generating electronic agreement documents that can be queried, validated, and customized through querying, validating, and customizing the corresponding document models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander B. Berger, Jerome Simeon, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Richard Tkachuk, Matthew Roberts
  • Publication number: 20230298368
    Abstract: A document management system utilizes document models for querying, validating, and customizing electronic agreement documents. Document models can be a data structure including document attributes that represent an agreement document. Examples of document attributes include customizable data values, conditions related to the operation of the agreement document and satisfiable by certain values of the customized data values, and rendering parameters for the appearance of the electronic agreement document. The document management system enables a user to create custom document models for generating electronic agreement documents that can be queried, validated, and customized through querying, validating, and customizing the corresponding document models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander B. Berger, Jerome Simeon, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Richard Tkachuk, Matthew Roberts
  • Patent number: 11699201
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: DocuSign, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Daniel Charles Selman, Jerome Simeon
  • Publication number: 20230177262
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Roberts, Daniel Charles Selman, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Jerome Simeon
  • Publication number: 20230126497
    Abstract: A document management system accesses a document signed by one or more parties. The document may indicate one or more events that the parties contracted to occur in relation to the time-based conditions. The document management system inputs the document to a machine-learned model configured to identify one or more time-based conditions indicated in the document. The document management system receives one or more time-based conditions from the machine-learned model. For each time-based condition, the document management system identifies a respective database that catalogs event information corresponding to the time-based condition. The document management system obtains the event information related to the time-based condition and determines whether the time-based condition has been met based on the event information. For each time-based condition that has not been met, the document management system transmits an alert to one or more of the parties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Richard Tkachuk, Daniel Charles Selman, Matthew Roberts, Jason Lee, Nikhil M. Patel, Haitao Song
  • Patent number: 11599719
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: DocuSign, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Roberts, Daniel Charles Selman, Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn, Jerome Simeon