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7533067 |
Control panel label for a postage printing device
Systems and methods for providing a locally printed replaceable control panel labels for providing an economical user interface to a postage printing device using a collocated processor are...
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7496538 |
Franking method and apparatus
In a method and system and franking apparatus for franking postal matter and for inspection of the franking, postage fees are stored and debited in electronic form, and a fee stamp and a...
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7493292 |
System and a method for automating delivery of communication by a special service
A system and a method for assisting in the process of generating mailing communications and satisfying their requirements are provided. The system and the method allow customers or users to...
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7451119 |
System and method of identifying and sorting international mail pieces based on applied-postage adequacy in order to enhance postal service revenue protection
Provided is a method of reducing postal revenue losses associated with the processing and delivery of international mail pieces. Algorithmically-resolved image data associated with a mail piece is...
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7346590 |
Method to account for domestic and international mail fees
The invention makes it easier for the post office to calculate accurately terminal dues by providing information to the post regarding each piece or parcel of mail that crosses an international...
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7310621 |
System for guaranteeing print of postal indicia
This invention relates to a process for recording an extension of guarantee of print for a system for franking mailpieces, comprising a display of an indication of “end of initial guarantee” at...
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7301115 |
System and method of identifying and sorting response services mail pieces in accordance with plural levels of refinement in order to enhance postal service revenue protection
A method to reduce lost postal revenue by identifying and sorting a mail piece by determining whether algorithmically-resolved image data corresponding to the mail piece indicates that the mail...
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RE39779 |
Method for the recovery of unusable printed postage
A method for recovering postage for metered mail pieces that have not been posted, the method includes: placing information that uniquely identifies the mail piece in a postal indicia ; storing...
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7233929 |
Postal system intranet and commerce processing for on-line value bearing system
An on-line system for printing a value bearing item (VBI) that includes a client subsystem for interfacing with a user, a cryptographic device remote from the client subsystem for authenticating a...
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7209905 |
System and method for detecting mail theft using additional mail pieces as probes
A method of tracking mail pieces includes determining that an observation event has not occurred with respect to a high value mail piece (HVMP). If it is also determined that a corresponding...
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7191158 |
System and method for providing computer-based postage stamps
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for creating computer-based postage that may be used on any date and with an undetermined addressee includes generating a request to print...
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7152049 |
Method and system for dispensing virtual stamps
A method and system for a virtual stamp dispensing metering system is provided wherein indicia of varying values are calculated at a data center and downloaded to a mailing machine on a periodic...
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7133850 |
Postage system having telephone answering and message retrieval capability
A postage system includes a data center, a population of postage metering systems and a control system that is in operative communication with the data center and the population of postage metering...
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7131572 |
Automatic business reply mail funding
A method for enabling a mailer to infer the amount of business reply that he/she is going to receive on a given day and determine the amount of postage that is due. The foregoing is accomplished by...
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7082417 |
Method of calculating mailroom chargeback cost for incoming mails
This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a method of calculating sorting costs for incoming mail. The foregoing is accomplished by providing a method that can...
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7080045 |
Electronic revenue stamp issuing apparatus and method thereof and recording medium stored control program thereof
An electronic revenue stamp issuing apparatus and a method thereof and a recording medium stored a control program thereof, in which the amount of an electronic revenue stamp that became invalid...
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7076471 |
Filtering method and apparatus
To decrease the number of arithmetical operations in a filtering process for decoding a digital signal and reduce a cost required for decoding. A filtering method for use in decoding a digital...
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7069247 |
Authentication system for mail pieces
An improved system is provided for authentication of mail pieces bearing bar-coded indicia. The system comprises first and second bar-code readers, the first and second bar-code readers differing...
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7065492 |
Method and apparatus for providing a personal item drop off/return service at security checkpoints
An apparatus and method provide a personal item return service to an owner of a personal item that is subject to confiscation before the owner is admitted through a security checkpoint and into a...
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7062473 |
Method and process for providing postal discounting
A method to allow a mailer to receive postal discounts for mailing at an eligible postal facility a plurality of mail pieces to a plurality of mailing addresses. The method comprises the steps of...
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7050995 |
System for managing orders and method of implementation
The system of this invention manages customer orders using vendor supplied software systems interfaced on a real-time basis to touch the data in each system on a real-time basis. In effect, there...
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6963861 |
Method and system for resolution of carrier specific data utilizing a generic data model
A system and method of retrieving shipment data uses destination information, as well as the carrier and level of service data models to retrieve the appropriate shipment data which complies with...
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6954742 |
Closed loop postage metering system
A closed loop postage metering system includes networked meters that provide mailers and/or recipients the capability to request additional or modified services during processing of a mail piece by...
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6920438 |
System and method for employing digital postage marks as part of value-added services in a mailing system
System and method for providing confirmation relating to the distribution of a mailpiece within a mailing system includes a determination of postal data required for postage evidencing of a...
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6873978 |
Event interface for a carrier manager system
A carrier management module in a carrier management system with a first application and a second application is configured to broker carrier rating requests from the second application to the first...
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6868395 |
Business transactions using the internet
In a campaign, a customer's file is reviewed to determine the offer or solicitation to send to the customer and the time such will remain open, and an e-mail message is sent to the customer that...
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6865560 |
Method and system for reporting carrier delivery status to a mailer
A method and system for providing a delivery confirmation service to a mailer who uses a postage meter to pay the postage for mailing a mail piece. The mailer applies a shipping label containing an...
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6865557 |
Network open metering system
A transaction evidencing system includes a plurality of computer systems operatively configured to form a network with one of the computer systems functioning as a server and the remaining computer...
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6853989 |
System and method for selecting and accounting for value-added services with a closed system meter
System and method are provided for selecting and accounting for value-added services with a closed system metering device. A scanning device coupled to the closed system postage meter scans...
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6834273 |
System for capturing information from a postal indicia producing device so as to correct improperly paid mail pieces
A system for correcting the rating and payment of mail pieces scanned and weighed by the post. The foregoing is accomplished by: uniquely identifying mail pieces during the metering process;...
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6826543 |
System and method for matching an offer with a quote
Described is a system and method that satisfies offers from customers with quotes from suppliers in a way that increases the likelihood of achieving an acceptable match. The system of the present...
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6813614 |
Method for re-keying postage metering devices
A method for communicating a re-keying message from a postage meter to a registration authority includes the steps of determining at the postage meter that a current key needs to be replaced with a...
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6754366 |
Method for determining if mail contains life harming materials
A method that enables the carrier of letters, flats and/or packages (mail) that are addressed to a recipient to determine if the mail contains life harming materials, before the mail is delivered...
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6741724 |
Method and system for form processing
The invention provides a method of processing an information form such as a postal change of address form. Such a form includes various data elements, such as a name of a person submitting the form...
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6711555 |
Method and apparatus for delivering mail items to non-postal route locations
An apparatus and method for processing non-postal route mail records and delivering mail items to non-postal route locations. Mail records are presented for processing. Mailers then extract...
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6658351 |
Apparatus and method for delivering road map data to movable body
In apparatus and method for delivering road map data, a plurality of road map data are stored in a road map data storage unit, one of the road map data which corresponds to the road map data...
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6618709 |
Computer assisted and/or implemented process and architecture for web-based monitoring of energy related usage, and client accessibility therefor
A method and computer architecture monitoring resource usage via a global computer network. The computer architecture may include a resource-metering data recorder/translator unit having a global...
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6442571 |
Methods and apparatus for secure electronic, certified, restricted delivery mail systems
A computer data signal embodied in a propagation medium is provided. The signal enables a variable number of data transfers and includes an initial connection source code segment and a data...
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6385597 |
Arrangement and method for data exchange between a postage meter machine and clip cards
In an arrangement and a method for data exchange between a postage meter machine and chip cards, a postage meter machine is equipped with a chip card write/read unit and appertaining control system...
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6381590 |
Remote postage meter resetting system having alternate postage funding sources
A remote postage meter resetting system includes apparatus for sending a request to recharge the postage meter by the postage recharge amount together with first data indicative of a first user...
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6338067 |
Product/service hierarchy database for market competition and investment analysis
A product hierarchy database organizes company market performance and stock investment information by the products and services produced and offered by each competitor. The companies that produce...
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6169977 |
Method and system of assigning rates based on class service and discount level
The invention is a method and system of assigning and updating rates within an electronic scale, wherein the rates are based upon class service and discount level. A set of classes of service...
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6073125 |
Token key distribution system controlled acceptance mail payment and evidencing system
A method for controlled acceptance mail accounting and evidencing, includes creating a mail batch including at least one mail piece having an encrypted indicia printed thereon. The encrypted...
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6058384 |
Method for removing funds from a postal security device
A method for removing postal funds from a postage meter provides an accounting unit of a postage meter with indicium-related information which is invalid for mailing such as invalid origin zip or...
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6047271 |
Qualification engine, rating system, and method for qualifying rating requests in a computerized rating system
The invention comprises a method, engine, and system for qualifying a rating request in a computerized rating system. The qualification engine is operable to receive a qualification request...
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6041318 |
Object oriented rating system and method
The invention comprises an object oriented rating system and method for processing rating requests in a computerized rating system. One aspect of the invention is an object oriented rating system...
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5995950 |
Carrier management system having a capability to determine discounted shipping charges for groups of parcels having the same consignee
A carrier management system having the capability to compute discounted shipping charges. The carrier management system includes inputs for input of parcel weight, information for selecting a class...
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5991734 |
Method of measuring the creative value in communications
This invention relates to a method for measuring the creative value added to a communication, such as an advertisement in the media of print, television or radio. In a preferred embodiment, the...
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5978781 |
Digital printing, metering, and recording of other post services on the face of a mail piece
A inexpensive and time saving method and system for reducing the use of gummed service stickers and the completion by hand of special forms for specialty mail is disclosed. This invention also...
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5842186 |
Custom class selection in automated mail processing
A program controlled automatic mail processor includes custom rates software to facilitate processing of mixed mail streams for posting via a plurality of classes, without manual sorting of the...
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