BR102015003034A2 - METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS CERTIFIED BY A USER OF A TELECOMMUNICATION OPERATOR. - Google Patents

Abstract

The object of the invention is a method of certification in an electronic format where a telecom operator certifies by sending a contract by a customer of that operator's user to another user who is not a customer of the telecommunication operator by means of an electronic mail and / or sms, and this may be a signal through the e-mail response or sms accepting or rejecting the contract in a reliable manner, generating proof of the transaction at all times, so that it can be considered a legally binding contract once that the entire process is certified by a telecommunication operator.

Description

(54) Title: METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS CERTIFIED BY A USER OF A TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATOR.

(51) Int. Cl .: G06Q 50/32; G06F 21/33 (52) CPC: G06Q 50/32, G06F 21/33 (73) Owner (s): LLEIDANETWORKS SERVEIS TELEMATICS, S.A.

(72) Inventor (s): FRANCISCO SAPENA SOLER (74) Attorney (s): NASCIMENTO ADVOGADOS (57) Abstract: The object of the invention is a certification method in an electronic format where a telecommunications operator certifies by sending a contract for a customer user of said operator to another user who is not a customer of the telecommunication operator by means of electronic mail and / or SMS, and this may be a signal through the response of the electronic mail or SMS the acceptance or rejection of the contract in a reliable way, generating proof of the transaction at all times, so that it can be considered a legally binding contract once the entire process is certified by a telecommunications operator.

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OBJECT OF THE INVENTION [0001] The object of the invention is a method for a telecommunications operator to be able to receive, redirect, and certify the acceptance of electronic contracts of some sending from a customer user of the operator to one or more non-customer receiving users of the operator, generating proof of the entire transaction of the final operation, to finally digitally sign and deliver to users the customer's shipments and receive non-customers, a certificate as a trusted operator and third parties with the date of shipment, special conditions, date and time delivery and response to those conditions by the non-customer receiver, still generating a proof record of the full transaction.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] It is a known fact that electronic communications has become an essential and indispensable tool for any type of operation, both legal and illegal. Communications are used for all types of movements, making calls, sending messages, and even from a source to a destination.

[0003] Telecommunication operators are those who provide the infrastructures that manage, direct and store much of this traffic. These telecommunications operators are subject to regulations, among other things, for the use of the radio spectrum which is limited, or for the use of resources for telephone numbering which is also limited.

[0004] In addition, telecommunications operators maintain records of the operations that users perform, for the purpose of, and among other things, classification, maintaining a record of numbers associated with them, charging references, as well as keeping a record of all transactional data

2/10 using for user billing. These records are maintained for subsequent billing and / or traffic response checks by the user.

[0005] Sometimes, judicial authorities require from telecommunications operators recorded data of the electronic transactions made, since the operators are considered as reliable third parties for the purpose of providing that data, as well as any data that can help and determine the people natural or legal entities that have carried out the action of interest.

[0006] Once the required data has been located by the judicial authorities, the operator issues a certificate in which the required transactional data, frequencies, destinations and any other type of information from the relevant judicial authority has been explicitly established.

[0007] This methodology, when requested by either party to a telecommunications operator, and presented as proof, has even been recently accepted as proof by the Supreme Court (ATS 2501/2013, Spanish Supreme Court, Civil Division. ).

[0008] Various methods and systems for creating online contracts are known in the state of the art, most of them being based on the contracting party by sending a link to the network environment monitored by a trusted third party, where various types of signatures can be stored , and in which the contracting party accepts the conditions of the supplier of the product or service. These methodologies have the disadvantage of not working in a closed network environment, preventing them from working for those not having access to the network, requiring digital signatures, or Java applications, for their signature, which limit their application environment and generally implying a sudden change in the environment for the user, which is not the case with the method described in the present invention.

3/10 [0009] The invention covered by this application provides a solution to the disadvantages mentioned above, performing the entire process by certified email and / or certified SMS sent by the telecommunications operator, resulting in a certified electronic contract between two parties , originated by a telecommunications operator being a trusted third party, including transmission data, transmitted data, attachments, a single record number and data, and other data both from an intermediary and a final transmission state.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [00010] According to the above, the object of the invention is a method for the production of electronic contracts certified by a telecommunication operator customer by means of e-mail and / or SMS, so that the operator customer make sure when the terms of the contract are sent to a non-client third party, and this being answered by email or SMS, including the reply text, date and traceability of the same, adding a single transaction number.

[00011] The method for producing the electronic contract certified by a telecommunication operator object of the invention is characterized by comprising the following steps, and by incorporating at least one incoming message server, outgoing message server, a database server elements output, a time stamp server, incoming SMS server, outgoing SMS served, and a data processing unit as a certified server that are interconnected between them:

- reception on the e-mail server of the message received by a customer user of the operator, with the conditions of the contract, to a previously prepared address of the type [email protected]. In the subject or topic of the message, the mobile number of the non-client destination must be placed, space, e-mail address of the non-client destination and finally the usual subject or topic of the message;

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- verification of the user to be authorized, it will be provided with credit to produce contracts and then proceed to the introduction and registration in the database of the text and the components received;

- originate in the data processing unit an electronic contract in an e-mail format that is to be sent from the address [email protected] including the content sent by the operator's customer, introducing specifically in the subject or topic of the e-mail CERTIFIED ELECTRONIC CONTRACT;

verification of the initial telephone number and if it exists, a contract is sent by the SMS certified to that number;

- sending the mail with the contract through the outgoing electronic e-mail with the contract data;

- acceptance by the non-client recipient, the contract by means of a reply to SMS or e-mail, including a reply;

- receipt of the response of the certified e-mail contract, including the data sent, received, dates and times and reception, and application of the digital signature and time stamp by the telecommunications operator;

- sending the certificate to the sending sender through the mail server.

[00012] As established above, the method object of the invention also offers the advantage that the content can be sent or specified by e-mail, with the change of the environment not being necessary, and generating proof of the sending, receiving and acceptance of the content by the telecommunication operator.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [00013] In order to implement the present description and in order to provide a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred configuration thereof, a set of drawings is attached as part of this description, in an illustrative and non-limiting manner , in which:

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- Figure 1 shows a flow diagram of an exemplary configuration of the method object of the invention to start the generation of a certified e-mail contract;

- Figure 2 shows a flow diagram of an exemplary configuration of the method object of the invention for sending the defendant and receiving a response by certified SMS and e-mail, specifically showing the SMS process;

- Figure 3 shows a flow diagram of an exemplary configuration of the method object of the invention of sending the defendant and receiving a response by e-mail, and creating, sending and delivering the certified electronic contract;

- Figure 4 shows a flow diagram of an exemplary configuration of the method object of the invention of sending the defendant and receiving a response by e-mail, and creating, sending and receiving the certified electronic contract in case an SMS is not used in the process;

- Figure 5 shows a flow diagram of an exemplary configuration of the method object of the invention in the case when no response is received from the recipient user who is not a valid user, nor a customer of the telecommunications operator.

PREFERRED CONFIGURATION OF THE INVENTION [00014] In view of Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4, where a series of diagrams are represented referring to a method object of the invention, the method is intended to create electronic contracts certified by a customer of a telecommunication operator, comprising the entire process of sending an electronic message from a sending user to receive the electronic contract certified by that same sender and the recipient or recipient. [00015] The sending user client of the telecommunications operator sends the electronic message with the contract to accept and certify a destination address managed by an incoming message server,

6/10 and this address is of the type [email protected]. This message is a standard e-mail, but with the format using in the subject or topic of the data of the referred message and at least one of the: mobile number of the destination to which the contract is addressed the e-mail address of the contract and finally the text of the subject matter.

[00016] When the message arrives at the incoming message server, it checks if it is an email address that should generate contracts. If not configured as such, it will be ignored. If it is an address capable of generating certified electronic contracts, then it will be checked if the sending user is qualified to do so, if it is white list certificates that allow the generation of certificates, If it is not on that list, the mail will be ignored.

[00017] Once the address is verified, it is correct and qualified, and the sender can generate certificates, the verification of the viability of the client user's credit is performed. If the user does not have enough credit to generate contracts, a notice is issued through an internet notification to the user that the service must be reloaded (completed).

[00018] If the user has an active status referred to, for example, having sufficient credit, the certified mail process starts by detailing the internal message in all its components, senders, receivers, destination phones, attachments and a serial number being added, placing everything in the database of input elements.

[00019] After that, all data is sent to the certification server, which checks whether a phone number is provided in the contract request. If the telephone is not provided, then the process moves in the direction of the process described in Figure 4, in which the process is only carried out via electronic mail. If the subject or topic contains data regarding the destination's phone number, the process detailed in Figure 2 is done.

7/10 [00020] If the subject includes the telephone, the e-mail message is created comprising a human-readable content such as the contract text to be accepted in the mail sent by the user from a client@contrato$.server.com addressed to the mail included in the subject, and a certified SMS will be generated indicating the phone that is going to receive a contract with a condition, and if the sender is interested in accepting, then an affirmative answer should be sufficient, by SMS or electronic mail. The process for SMS and e-mail can be simultaneous or it can be first the mail and then the SMS, under market conditions, network or customer orders.

[00021] This SMS is sent to the outgoing SMS of the telecommunication operator, so that, through the interconnection network, it reaches the SMS server of the sending operator and can be delivered to the recipient of the destination's mobile contract. This SMS may be answered or not. If it is answered with any text, the message arrives at the destination server of the mobile operator and is directed through the interconnection network to the operator's incoming message server. Once there, he will proceed, to the certification server that will decide, according to the policy decided, the moment to generate the certified electronic contract.

[00022] In the mail process, it will be sent to the outgoing message server of the telecommunication operator, and it is being determined whether the mail can be released from the destination mail. If it cannot be released, the next step will be the NOEX process detailed in Figure 5.

[00023] In case the mail can be released with the conditions, it will be read by the user and be answered, the reply being sent through the mail server of the recipient of the contract that receives it on the operator's incoming message server, which in turn instead send it to the certificate server.

[00024] Once the response is received from the user, the certification server details the response data and inputs it into the base responses

8/10 of data. Then, the certification server generates the first part of the certificate with all data from the destination operator customer, date, time, request and contents sent by the operator customer, plus the data obtained during message traffic, previously stored in the database. where orders are stored.

[00025] Then with the data contained in the response database, the second part is generated with the user's response. This certified electronic contract is saved in a PDF format and is digitally signed with the electronic signature of the telecommunications operator. Once this is done, a digital HASH sum of the content is performed and a date and time is required for the parent TSA server, incorporating it into the resulting PDF and then finalizing the creation of the PDF contract with the certified electronic contract.

[00026] Two copies of this certified electronic contract are finally sent through the Operator's outgoing mail server to the contract sender and the contract receiver, using their respective mail servers. [00027] If the telecom operator user contract request comes without the phone included in the subject or topic of the electronic mail, the process described in the flow diagram of Figure 4 will be used.

[00028] Once received and verified that there is credit provided, the mail contract is generated addressed to the address previously included in the mail subject and with the text included in the initial mail, sending it to the Operator's outgoing electronic server. This will process the emails and send them to the post office servers at the destination addresses. In case it is not delivered, the outgoing mail server will initiate a NOEX process, or a process of non-existence of the mail address. The NOEX process will be described in the diagram in Figure 5.

[00029] The mail and the contract, having a sender [email protected] is delivered to the destination server,

9/10 delivering it to the user who is not a customer of the telecommunication operator. If the final destination does not give an answer in a period to be determined by the customer wishing to generate the contract, and usually from 24 to 48 hours, a process is initiated referred to as NORESPMAIL described in diagram 5.

[00030] If the recipient who is not a customer of the operator responds to the contract, this will be released to the mail server of the destination email that will send it to the operator's incoming mail server. Once here, the incoming mail server determines whether it is a certified electronic contract and sends it to the certification server.

[00031] The certification server will detail the response in all its elements and introduce them in the response or in the database entry elements. Once this is done, the initial certification server the final process of creating the electronic contract certified first with content of the material in the required output elements or database including the name and corporate name, as well as the time, date and destination of the sending to initial mail.

[00032] Once the first part is filled out making the defendant, the second part proceeds with the answer to that request that is taken from the database of the input elements or responses, including the destination address of the operator's non-client source , the date, time and text being answered, as well as the traceability through which the message was received.

[00033] Once the contract is made through the request and response, it will be digitally signed and an error of the digital sum is realized that is sent to the server on the day and time to be included in the certificate. Once the PDF file with the certified contract has been created and signed with a digital signature by the telecommunication operator and a third part of the day and time, a copy is sent via email to the operator's outgoing server to the customer

10/10 telecommunication operator, which will be delivered through your e-mail server, and another copy to the recipient recipient through your e-mail server, considering the process object of the present invention is finalized.

[00034] In the diagram in Figure 5, the process in NOEX cases, or it does not exist, or NORESOPMAIL, is detailed when the operator does not receive a response to the operator's initial email. In this case, the certification server generates a certificate from the telecommunication operator with the initial data, indicating that either the destination does not exist, or there was no response. This certificate is sent to the operator client's mail server, finally delivering it to the client user.

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Claims (5)

1. "METHOD FOR CREATING CERTIFIED ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS BY A TELECOMMUNICATION OPERATOR USER", characterized by understanding the creation and sending of at least one electronic message by the user, which is a sender and the electronic message addressed to a recipient or recipient, where said electronic message comprises at least one electronic contract, and in the subject field at least one of the following data related to a destination of said electronic message, mobile number of a recipient of the electronic message and an email address of the recipient of the electronic message, receiving the electronic message in an incoming mail server of the telecommunication operator, determining if the address of the sending user is in a recipient's database capable of generating certificates, decomposing the electronic message in at least one of the sender, receiver, recipient, phone number destination and attachments, adding a certification server to the decomposed electronic message together with its serial number, creating an electronic mail comprising the contract in a legible manner, creating an SMS indicating the receipt of the contract, sending the electronic mail through a messaging server outgoing operator, and the SMS message through the telecommunication operator to the recipient, created in the stage prior to at least one of the destinations included in the subject field of the electronic message, where at least one of the e-mails and SMS comprises an acceptance request of the contract, receiving a response from the recipient by the recipient to at least one of the aforementioned electronic mail and SMS message, decomposition of the response through the certification server, into response data that in turn comprise at least one of the operator data. destination, date, time, content sent, data referring to message transmission and dad those of the required contract to be 2/2 accepted, generating a first certificate comprising said response data, generating a second certificate comprising at least one response generated by the recipient of the request received by him, joining the first certificate and the second certificate by the generation of a certified contract document, digitally signing the certified contract document through a signature from the telecommunications operator, making a digital HASH sum of the content of the certified contract document, and adding a time stamp generated by a postal authority. 2. "METHOD", according to claim 1, characterized by additionally understanding whether the verification of the shipping status is active, by checking whether it is included in the database of users having an active status at the time of carrying out the method. 3. “METHOD”, according to claim 1, characterized in that it additionally comprises the generation of at least two copies of the certified contract document, and a copy to the sender and receiver of the telecommunication operator via the mail server of the telecommunications operator. certified contract document, respectively. 4. "METHOD", according to claim 1, characterized in that it additionally comprises the storage in an input database of the decomposed electronic message together with its serial number. 5. "METHOD", according to claim 1, characterized in that it additionally comprises the storage of response data in a response database to the required for the contract. 1/5 fig. 1 2/5