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5737426 Remote and secure feature enabling for an electronic postage meter  
The postage metering system includes a postage meter in bus communication with an external interface unit. The postage meter operates under the control of a programmable micro control system which...
5734571 Method for modifying data loaded into memory cells of an electronic postage meter machine  
In a method for modifying data loaded into memory cells of an electronic postage meter machine having a microprocessor which executes steps for a routine controlled by an external storage medium, a...
5696829 Digital postage meter system  
A mailing system is includes of a mailing machine operating under the control of a microcontroller having a communication port with a first channel and a second channel. The mailing system also...
5680456 Method of manufacturing generic meters in a key management system  
A method of manufacturing transaction evidencing devices, such as digital postage meters, includes the steps of generating a master key in a logical security domain of a Key Management System;...
5675650 Controlled acceptance mail payment and evidencing system  
A method for controlled acceptance mail payment and evidencing in accordance with the present invention includes creating a mail batch with a plurality of mailpieces each having encrypted indicia...
5655024 Method of tracking postage meter location  
The method provides for tracking a meter vault which is adapted for use in combination with a graphic interface unit. The graphic interface unit includes the graphics for the indicia town circle...
5438519 Electronic postage meter having memory write access second chance hard timer means  
A postage meter control system includes a microcomputer having a programmable microprocessor. The microcomputer is in communication with a decoder integrated circuit (Decoder IC). The Decoder IC...
5260900 Method and apparatus for accessing non-volatile memory  
A method and system for accessing a non volatile memory for writing data therein, wherein the memory has a write accessing input. A control circuit produces successive enable signals, and a...
5029093 Dual redundant electronic postage meter  
A dual redundant electronic postage meter and associated method is provided for increasing the reliability of meter operation, comprising a first meter module including triple redundant memory...
5021963 EPM having an improvement in accounting update security  
An electronic postage meter has two non-volatile memories for storing postage meter accounting data under control of a CPU operating under a program in ROM. An accounting data recovery routine is...
5012425 EPM having an improvement in non-volatile storage of accounting data  
An electronic postage meter has two non-volatile memory devices, each of a different technology, CMOS battery-backed RAM and E 2 PROM. The E 2 PROM technology allows a limited number of rewrites....
4998203 Postage meter with a non-volatile memory security circuit  
An electronic postage meter with a non-volatile memory security circuit apparatus is disclosed. The security circuit comprises means for limiting the amount of time the memories may be continuously...
4845632 Electonic postage meter system having arrangement for rapid storage of critical postage accounting data in plural nonvolatile memories  
A system for the nonvolatile storage of data, such as a postage meter system, employs a microcomputer coupled to two nonvolatile memories. The first nonvolatile memory requires data be applied to...
4829469 Security system for use with electronic postage meter to prevent lock erasure of data  
An electronically operated postage meter includes a non-volatile memory for the permanent storage of security and financial data utilized in the operation of the meter. In the operation of the...
4817002 Electronic postage meter non-volatile memory systems having human visually readable and machine stored data  
A computing system having a non-volatile memory with locations with store data and are physically accessible such that the locations can be human visually readable to determine the data values...
4817004 Electronic postage meter operating system  
A postage meter system includes a nonvolatile memory and program store coupled to a microcomputer. Postage meter transactional accounting data records are stored in the nonvolatile memory. Each...
4807141 Postage meter with microprocessor controlled reset inhibiting means  
In a postage meter which includes a computer, a power supply for energizing the computer, a non-volatile memory for storing postage meter operating data, and wherein the computer includes a...
4805109 Nonvolatile memory protection arrangement for electronic postage meter system having plural nonvolatile memories  
A system for the nonvolatile storage of data, such as a postage meter system, includes a microcomputer coupled to an MNOS type nonvolatile memory and also coupled to an EEPROM type nonvolatile...
4802117 Method of preserving data storage in a postal meter  
A nonvolatile memory bank of an electronic memory and retrieval system is partitioned into at least three memory blocks, each block capable of storing an accounting program. The accounting program...
4747057 Electronic postage meter having power up and power down protection circuitry  
A method and apparatus for providing enhanced security to the non-volatile memory of an electronic postage meter during power up and power down of the meter is disclosed. The apparatus comprises...
4731749 Electronic postage meter having multiple non-volatile memories for storing different historical information reflecting postage transactions  
An electronic postage meter includes two non-volatile memories. One of the non-volatile memories is utilized for storing in historical sequence in respective registers the transaction information...
4710882 Electronic postage meter having a nonvolatile memory selection means  
An electronic postage meter having an improved memory selection circuit is disclosed. A custom memory map decoder circuit with resolution down to a single byte location is used to provide selection...
4706215 Data protection system for electronic postage meters having multiple non-volatile multiple memories  
A method and associated apparatus is provided for protecting the accounting data stored in an electronic postage meter having multiple non-volatile memories for the storage of accounting data,...
4701856 Reset delay circuit for an electronic postage meter  
An electronic postage meter with a circuit to provide for a delay period before operation of a postage meter is disclosed. The circuit provides a fixed delay which is triggered when three input...
4628457 Postal rate memory module with integral battery power  
A postal rate memory module is disclosed. The module includes a memory which stores current postal data and an integral battery. The module may be used in a postal scale which includes a scale for...
4627016 Memory address location system for an electronic postage meter having multiple non-volatile memories  
A method and associated apparatus is provided for using data stored in one non-volatile memory to locate the next memory address in which to write data in another non-volatile memory of an...
4611282 Postage meter using a flag to indicate interuption of accounting register updating due to power failure or microprocessor failure  
In an electronic postage meter having a program for updating accounting memory in a printing cycle, flags are set in the accounting memory at each of a plurality of steps during the updating of the...
RE32226 Electronic franking machines  
An electronic franking machine, for example a postal franking machine, has a digital electronic input register, for storing a selected franking value fed in for use in the next franking operation...
4584647 Electronic postage meter with a ring counter  
A method and apparatus for reducing the accounting loss in the case of catastrophic failure of a microprocessor in an electronic postage meter is disclosed. In accordance with the invention a...
4578774 System for limiting access to non-volatile memory in electronic postage meters  
A method and associated apparatus for limiting the erasing and writing of data in the non-volatile memory (NVM) of an electronic postage meter operated under microcomputer control to predetermined...
4547853 Electronic postage meter reset circuit  
A reset circuit for an electronic postage meter controls the operation of the reset line of the meter's computing system. The reset circuit operates in conjunction with a non-volatile memory...
4534018 Non-volatile memory protection circuit with microprocessor interaction  
A method and associated apparatus for controlling the erasure and writing of data in non-volatile memory during the power up, power down and normal operating cycles of an electronic postage meter...
RE31875 Computer responsive postage meter  
A high volume mailing installation is disclosed in which the output of a programmable high speed electronic digital computer provides destination and postage amount information, a high speed chain...
4507744 Accessible housing for electronic system  
A secured housing for an electronic device having an electronic memory mounted therewithin is provided which has as access aperture which provides tamper proof security and electro-magnetic...
4445198 Memory protection circuit for an electronic postage meter  
An electronic postage meter includes a memory protection circuit. The memory protection circuit prevents the inadvertent writing of spurious data into memory locations in the nonvolatile memory...
4442501 Electronic postage meter with weak memory indication  
An electronic postage meter having an accounting section including a nonvolatile memory (NVM), computer means for reading the condition of the nonvolatile memory during a power-up cycle of the...
4424573 System for entering a postage meter serial number into a nonvolatile memory from an external channel after assembly of the meter  
A method for entering the serial number into the nonvolatile memory of an electronic postage meter upon completion of assembly of the meter including the steps of programming a given chip number...
4420819 System for processing and storing transaction data and for transmitting the transaction data to a remote host computer  
A data processing and storage system includes semi-permanent disk storage for storing transaction data relating to a plurality of parcels. The transaction data includes character information data...
4336529 Postage meter having shielded keyboard to protect against electromagnetic radiation  
A shielded switch structure is disclosed. The switch structure is adapted for use in a system which is susceptible to being affected by electromagnetic radiation. The structure includes a...
4335434 Electronically controlled franking machine  
Electronic control for franking machines such as postage meters and stamping machines having a printing device, a postage value printing selection device, a total postal charge storage register and...
4328564 Thermally secure postage meter system  
A processor controlled postage meter includes memories for storage of meter account balance data. Thermal security of the balance data is maintained through the employment of magnetic core memories...
4306299 Postage meter having means transferring data from a working memory to a non-volatile memory under low power conditions  
An electronic postage has a working memory and a non-volatile memory. A voltage sensing circuit senses low power conditions, and, in response thereto, controls a data transfer circuit to transfer...
4285050 Electronic postage meter operating voltage variation sensing system  
An electronic postage meter includes an operating voltage variation sensing system. Protection is provided for preserving postage accounting information stored in the meter if the operating power...
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