Patent attributes
Digital document editing techniques as part of electronic signature collection are described. These techniques support a single unified workflow in which comments and edits may be made as part of collecting an electronic signature. In this way, user and computational efficiency may be increased over conventional techniques that require initialization of the electronic signature collection workflow any time a comment or change is to be made to a digital document. Further, the comments and edits may be incorporated as part of audit trail associated with the electronic signature, thus increasing effectiveness of the electronic signature in providing supporting evidence of signature validity by documenting changes made to the digital document by one or more of the parties that sign the document.
