A token-based deadline enforcement system for electronic document submission
CA 2228331 C · Owner: Lo, Jimmy · Inventors: Lau, Terence Chun-Yat; Mirlas, Lev; Lo, Jimmy
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In a token-based deadline enforcement system for electronic document submission a submission requirements centre collects information on submission requirements (eg. deadlines for submitting bids in response to commercial tenders) from the processing environments that generate the requirements. A gateway to a network of potential submitters polls the information collected in the submission requirements centre and generates tokens corresponding to current submission time limits. These tokens are available to all potential submitters until expiry of the corresponding time limit for the submission. On receiving a request for electronic submission from a submitting program the gateway searches …
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- Filed January 30, 1998 and granted January 15, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 30, 2018.
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