System for enabling digital signature auditing

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8914637
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13592809

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A computer method, computer system, and article for enabling digital signature auditing. The method includes the steps of: receiving at least one signature request issued by at least one application, forwarding a first data corresponding to the received at least one signature request to at least one signing entity for subsequent signature of the first data, storing an updated system state that is computed using a function of: i) a reference system state and ii) a second data corresponding to the received at least one signature request, where the reference system state and the updated system state attest to the at least one signature request, and repeating the above steps, using the updated system state as a new reference system state, where the steps of the method are executed at a server of a computerized system.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Osborne, Michael Charles Zurich, CH 21 192
Visegrady, Tamas Zurich, CH 83 937

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