KR102497104B1 - Method for producing electronic contracts certified by a user of a telecommunications operator - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is a method for authenticating a contract in electronic form, wherein a telecommunications carrier authenticates transmission of a contract by a user customer of said operator to another user who is not a customer of the telecommunications carrier by e-mail and/or SMS; Acceptance or rejection of the contract can be signed in a reliable way by response to e-mail or SMS, and by generating proof of the transaction at every moment, the whole process is authenticated by the telecom operator, which makes it legally binding. can be regarded as a contract.

Description

METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS CERTIFIED BY A USER OF A TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATOR}

It is an object of the present invention to enable a telecommunications carrier to receive, retransmit, forward, authenticate and issue authorizations of electronic contracts from any originating customer user of the carrier to one or several non-customer receiving users of the carrier. together with the date, initial conditions, date and time of delivery, and response to these conditions by the non-customer recipient, as well as the trusted operators and third parties, to finally digitally sign and deliver the Certificate to the originating customer user and the non-customer recipient. It is a way to generate a proof of the entire transaction of the final work, and also to create a record of the evidence of the entire transaction.

It is a known fact that electronic communications have become an indispensable tool for all types of work, both legal and illegal. Telecommunications are used for all types of movement from source to destination, calls, sending messages, etc.

Carriers provide the infrastructure to manage, transmit and store much of this traffic. These telecommunications operators are, among other things, subject to restrictions on the use of limited radio frequencies or the use of resources for limited telephone numbers.

In addition, telecommunication carriers may, among other things, evaluate and maintain records of numbers associated with users, and for the purpose of maintaining records of all transaction data used to bill users, as well as billing supporting documents, that users perform. Keep records of your work. These records are kept for subsequent authentication of assessments and/or follow-up of traffic by users.

Because business operators are considered trusted third parties for the purpose of providing these data, as well as any data that can help to identify the natural or legal person who performed the action of interest, often law enforcement authorities have a record of electronic transactions made. requested data from the carrier.

If law enforcement finds the requested data, the operator issues a certificate specifying the requested transaction data, frequency, destination, and any other type of information requested by the relevant law enforcement authorities.

When requested by any party against the telecom operator, this method has only recently been accepted as evidence by the Supreme Court (ATS 2501/2013, Supreme Court of Spain, Civil Division).

Several methods and systems for the creation of contracts online are known in the prior art, most of which are reliable sources in which different types of signatures can be stored and the parties to the contract accept the terms of the product or service provider. It is based on the contracting party sending a link to a web environment that is monitored by a third party. This method has the disadvantage that it does not work in a closed web environment, does not prevent it from working for those who do not have web access, and requires a digital signature or a Java application for their signature, which is their application environment. and usually means a rapid change in the environment for the user, which is not the case with the method disclosed in the present invention.

The object of the invention of the present application is to provide a solution to the above disadvantages, and according to this, by performing all processes by an authenticated e-mail and/or an authenticated SMS transmitted by a communication service provider, transmitted data, transmitted data, attachments Creates an authenticated electronic contract between two parties, issued by a trusted third party, the carrier, containing a file, a single record number and data, and other data from both the intermediate and final stages of the transmission.

In view of the foregoing, an object of the present invention is a method for creating an electronic contract authenticated by a carrier customer using e-mail and/or SMS, in such a way that the carrier customer has the terms and conditions of the contract communicated to non-customer third parties. You receive a certificate when sent, which is returned by mail or SMS with a single transaction number appended to it, including the response text, date, time and traceability thereof.

A method for generating an electronic contract authenticated by a communication service provider according to an object of the present invention is characterized in that it includes the following steps, and the method includes at least a receiving mail server, a sending mail server, a database of sending component servers, It includes a data processing unit which is a database of receiving element server, timestamping server, receiving SMS server, outgoing SMS server and authentication server, which are interconnected with each other:

- Step of receiving an incoming message sent by a customer user of the business operator along with contract conditions to a previously prepared address in the form of cliente@contrato.lleida.net on the mail server. In the subject or subject of the message, the mobile number of the non-customer destination, the space, the email address of the non-customer destination, and finally the general subject or subject of the message shall be placed.

- After confirming that the user has been authorized and has the credit to create a contract, proceed with introduction and recording to the text database and received components.

- Step of issuing an electronic contract in the form of an e-mail in the data processing unit, the electronic contract is sent from the address cliente@contrato.lleida.net enclosing the contents sent by the customer of the business operator, and specifically in the subject or subject of the e-mail " Insert "Authenticated Electronic Contract".

- Step of verifying the initial phone number, if it exists, the contract is sent to that number by authenticated SMS.

- Sending the mail containing the contract through the sending email server along with the contract data.

- Acceptance of the Agreement by the non-customer recipient by reply to SMS or e-mail, including a reply.

- receiving a response by the non-customer destination.

- Final creation of a certified e-mail agreement, including data transmitted and received, dates and times of issue and receipt, and application of digital signatures and timestamps by telecommunication carriers.

- Sending the certificate to the issuing sender via the mail server.

As described above, the method according to the object of the present invention similarly provides the advantage that content can be transmitted or specified by e-mail without the need for changing the environment, and the transmission, reception and acceptance of the content by the communication service provider. generate evidence

In order to implement the present invention and to provide a better understanding of the features of the present invention according to its preferred embodiment, a series of illustrative but not limiting purposes is attached as a part of this disclosure, which drawings are as follows: Indicates:
1 shows a flow diagram of an exemplary embodiment of a method according to the object of the present invention for initiating the creation of an authenticated email agreement.
Fig. 2 shows a flow diagram of an exemplary embodiment of a method according to the object of the present invention for sending a request and receiving a response by means of authenticated SMS and email, and in particular the SMS process.
Figure 3 shows a flow chart of an exemplary embodiment of a method according to the object of the present invention for sending a request and receiving a response by e-mail, and for creating, sending and delivering an authenticated electronic contract.
Fig. 4 shows a flowchart of an exemplary embodiment of a method according to the object of the present invention for sending a request and receiving a response by email, and for creating, sending and receiving an authenticated electronic contract if SMS is not used in the process; indicate
Figure 5 shows a flow chart of an exemplary embodiment of a method according to the object of the present invention when no response is received from a destination user who is neither a valid user nor a customer of a carrier.

Referring to Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4, which series of drawings represent with reference a method in accordance with the object of the present invention, the method being configured to form an electronic contract authenticated by a customer of a telecommunications carrier, said method includes all processes from sending the sending user's electronic message to receiving an electronic contract authenticated by the same sender and recipient or recipient.

An originating user customer of a telecom operator sends an electronic message containing a contract to accept and authenticate a destination address maintained by the receiving mail server, an address of the form cliente@contrato.lleida.net. This message is a standard e-mail, but has the format used by the subject or subject of the message data referenced in at least one of the destination mobile number to which the contract is to be delivered, the electronic contract address of the contract, and finally the subject test.

When a message arrives at the receiving mail server, this mail server verifies that it is the email address for which a contract should be created. If the message is not so structured, the message is ignored. If the message is capable of creating an authenticated electronic contract, verify that the sender's user can create it, i.e., is within the whitelisting of certificates allowing the creation of certificates.

After verifying that the address is correct and capable and that the sender can generate a certificate, verification of the validity of the credit from the customer user is performed. If the user does not have enough credit to create a contract, a warning is issued over the Internet notifying the user that the service must be recharged (replenished).

If the user has, for example, an active state indicating that they have sufficient trust, then enumerates the internal message within all its components, sender, recipient, destination phone number, attachments, adds a serial number, and adds a serial number to the received element. Placing everything in the database starts the process of authenticated mail.

Then, all data is transmitted to the authentication server, which verifies that the phone number is provided in the contract request. If no phone number is provided, the process moves towards the process disclosed in Figure 4, where the process is done by e-mail only. When the title or subject includes data referred to the destination phone number, the process shown in FIG. 2 is performed.

An email containing readable content, such as the text of an agreement to be accepted, within a mail sent by the user from a sender in the form cliente@contratos.server.com delivered to the mail included in the subject, if the subject contains a phone number. A message is generated, an authenticated SMS indicating the phone number to receive the contract with conditions is generated, and if the recipient is interested in accepting, a positive response by SMS or by e-mail should suffice. The processing for SMS and email may be simultaneous or mail first and then SMS, depending on market conditions, network or customer requirements.

This SMS is transmitted to the outgoing SMS server of the communication service provider, so that it arrives at the recipient service provider's SMS server through the interconnection network and can be delivered to the contract recipient's destination mobile. This SMS may or may not be returned. When returned with some text, the message arrives at the mobile operator destination server and is passed over the interconnection network to the operator's receiving message server. Then, according to the determined policy, it moves to the authentication server that determines the moment of generating the authenticated electronic contract.

In the mail process, it is sent to the telecom operator's outgoing mail server, and the mail determines whether the destination can be delivered by mail. If it cannot be delivered, the next step is the NOEX process shown in FIG. 5 .

If the mail can be delivered with conditions, can be read by the user, and can be replied to, the response is sent through the contract recipient's mail server, which can forward the mail to the operator's incoming mail server, which is the operator's incoming mail server. It is sent to the authentication server.

When a response is received from the user, the authentication server enumerates the response data and introduces it into the response database. The authentication server then sends the first part of the certificate together with all destination user customer data, date, time, request and content sent by the operator's customer, as well as previously stored in a database where the request is also stored, along with data obtained during the message traffic. generate

Then, a second part is created with the user reply along with the data contained in the reply database. This certified electronic contract is saved in PDF format and digitally signed with the carrier's electronic signature. Upon completion of this, a digital hash sum of the contents is performed, a timestamp is requested to the stamp TSA server, and by incorporating it into the generated PDF, the creation of the PDF contract with the authenticated electronic contract is completed.

The two copies of this certified electronic contract are finally transmitted to the contract sender and the contract receiver through the sending mail server of the business operator using their respective mail servers.

When a contract request from a communication service provider user comes without a phone number included in the subject or subject of the e-mail, the process disclosed in the flowchart of FIG. 4 is used.

If credit is received and verified as being in place, a mail contract is created and delivered to the address previously included in the mail's subject along with the text contained in the initial mail, which transmits it to the operator's outgoing electronic server. It will process the email and send it to the mail server at the destination address. If not delivered, the sending mail server will start the NOEX process or the mail address does not exist process. The NOEX process is disclosed in the flow chart of FIG. 5 .

Mail and contracts with sender cliente@contratos.operador.com are forwarded to the destination server, which delivers them to the carrier's non-customer recipient users. If the final destination does not provide a response within generally 24 to 48 hours, a period to be determined by the customer wishing to create a contract, a process referred to as NORESPMAIL shown in FIG. 5 is initiated.

When a merchant's non-customer destination recipient provides a response to the contract, it will be forwarded to the destination email's mail server, which will forward it to the business' incoming mail server. Then, the receiving mail server determines whether it is an authenticated electronic contract and transmits it to the authentication server.

The authentication server will enumerate the response into all its elements and introduce them into the response or received element database. Upon completion of this, the authentication server begins the final process of creating an authenticated electronic contract with the data content in the outgoing element or request database, including the name and company name as well as the time, date and delivery destination for the initial mail.

When the first part is completed by performing the request, the request from the database of incoming elements or responses, including the operator's non-customer source destination address, date, time and returned text, as well as IP traceability from which the message was received. Proceed to the second part with the response to .

When a contract is made through a request and response, it is digitally signed, a digital sum hash is realized, and sent to a timestamp server for inclusion within a certificate. Once a PDF file is created with the contract signed and authenticated with the carrier's digital signature and third party stamp, one copy is sent via email to the carrier's outgoing server and through its email server to the carrier's customers; , is transmitted; Another copy is sent to the addressee or recipient via its e-mail server, and the process ends for the purposes of the present invention.

The flow chart of FIG. 5 shows a process when the operator does not receive a response to the operator's initial e-mail in the case of NOEX, non-existence, or NORESPMAIL. In this case, the authentication server generates a certificate from the carrier with initial data indicating that no destination exists or there is no response. This certificate is sent to the business customer's mail server and finally to the customer's user.

Claims (7)

A method for authenticating electronic contracts by a telecom operator, the method comprising:
generating and transmitting at least one electronic message by a user of the telecommunications operator as a sender, wherein the electronic message is delivered to a recipient or recipient, the electronic message in turn comprising at least one electronic contract; , subject contains the destination of the electronic message, the destination of the electronic message being the mobile number of the recipient of the electronic message and the e-mail address of the recipient of the electronic message;
receiving the electronic message at an incoming mail server of the communication service provider;
generating in a data processing device an electronic contract in the form of an electronic message to be transmitted from the communication service provider, wherein the electronic contract in the form of an electronic message encloses content transmitted by a customer of the communication service provider;
sending the electronic contract to the mobile number by means of an authenticated SMS;
transmitting the electronic message to which the contract is attached through an outgoing e-mail server of the communication service provider;
adding a serial number to the electronic message;
sending the decomposed electronic message along with its serial number to an authentication server;
receiving a response to the recipient's request for acceptance of at least the SMS message;
decomposing the response by the authentication server into response data comprising, in turn, at least one of destination operator data, date, time, content transmitted, data referenced in the transmission of the message, and data of the requested contract to be accepted;
generating a first certificate including at least the response data;
generating a second certificate comprising at least one response generated by the recipient to a received request;
generating an authentication document of a contract by combining the first certificate and the second certificate;
digitally signing the authentication document of the contract authenticated by the signature of the communication service provider; and
A method comprising performing a digital sum hash (HASH) of authenticated contract document contents. According to claim 1,
The method further comprising verifying whether the transmission state is active by verifying whether the transmission state is included in the database of the users having an active state at the moment when the method is performed. According to claim 1,
generating at least two copies of the certified contract document; and
and transmitting one copy to a sender and a receiver of the authenticated contract document, respectively, through the mail server of the communication service provider. According to claim 1,
and storing the disaggregated electronic message along with the serial number in an incoming database. According to claim 1,
and storing the response data in a database of responses to contract requests. According to claim 1,
and adding a timestamp generated by a timestamp authority to the authenticated contract document content. A method for authenticating electronic contracts by a telecom operator, the method comprising:
generating and sending at least one electronic message by a user of the telecommunications operator as a sender, wherein the electronic message is delivered to a recipient or a recipient, the electronic message in turn including at least one electronic contract, and having a subject field ( subject field) includes a destination of the electronic message, wherein the destination of the electronic message is a mobile number of a recipient of the electronic message and an email address of the recipient of the electronic message;
receiving the electronic message at an incoming mail server of the communication service provider;
determining whether the calling user's address is in the database of addresses from which certificates can be generated;
disassembling the electronic message at least one of a sender, a recipient, a recipient, a destination telephone number, and an attachment;
adding a serial number to the electronic message;
sending the decomposed electronic message along with its serial number to an authentication server;
generating an e-mail containing the contract in a readable manner;
generating an SMS message indicating receipt of the contract;
transmitting the e-mail and the SMS message generated in the previous steps, wherein the e-mail is transmitted to at least one of the destinations included in the subject field of the electronic message through an outgoing message server of the business operator; wherein the SMS message is sent to the recipient via the telecommunications carrier, the e-mail and the SMS message including a request for approval of the contract;
receiving a response to the recipient's request for the e-mail and the SMS message;
decomposing the response by the authentication server into response data comprising, in turn, at least one of destination operator data, date, time, content transmitted, data referenced in the transmission of the message, and data of the requested contract to be accepted;
generating a first certificate including at least the response data;
generating a second certificate comprising at least one response generated by the recipient to a received request;
generating an authentication document of a contract by combining the first certificate and the second certificate;
digitally signing the authentication document of the contract authenticated by the signature of the communication service provider; and
A method comprising performing a digital sum hash (HASH) of authenticated contract document contents.

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