Within the Case Management System (CMS) ecosystem, Electronic Filing Manager (EFM) aggregates electronic court filings from one or more Electronic Service Providers (EFSP) thereby providing a central environment where court personnel can review, edit, and approve or reject the filings. The EFM interacts with one or more CMS’ to record the approved information and documents within the electronic court filing to the appropriate CMS.
Where the EFM aggregates electronic court filings, it also becomes a manager that authorizes which EFSP can interact with the system and manages the relationship of the EFSP to filers. This relationship management is then used to manage distribution of electronic Notifications.
Unlike the CMS which is the official and permanent storage of data and documents the EFM becomes a temporary processing environment of documents and data.
- Identification of EFSP vendors
- Provides certification processes for EFSP vendors to interact
- Manages the identify of filers and their association to the EFSP
- Exposes the Court Policy configuration requirements of each CMS supported
- Records the date/time electronic court filings were submitted by the EFSP
- Records the date/time electronic court filings are received
- Records the date/time electronic court filings are approved
- Manages roles of court personnel (Enterprise Security component interface?)
- Manages the rights of court personnel to identify who can access a filing based on case types, case security, and security of documents (Identity Management component interface?)
- Interacts with the CMS/DMS to record the data and documents and retrieve case information and documents (Document-Content Management component interface?)
- Provides an interface that allows court personnel to review information submitted
- Provides an interface that allows court personnel to edit information submitted
- Provides an interface that allows court personnel to add information and documents to a filing
- Provides an interface that allows court personnel to route filings to other court personnel with rights
- Manages the assignment and reassignment of filings to appropriate court personnel
- Interacts with the CMS to retrieve data that allows the review process to make decisions
- Interacts with the electronic notification system to distribute notifications
- Interacts with the CMS when events occur in the CMS that require notifications
- Provides reporting of history of electronic court filings received, rejected, and pending
- Interact with the Payment Gateway
- Provides a method of management of proposed orders
- Provides a method for utilization by Court for notices
- Exposes a service list of all parties and their email address on a case by case basis