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8429083 |
Messaging stamp authority
Electronic messages may be processed using a stamp authority by receiving an electronic message, identifying a stamp associated the message, determining if the stamp is valid, and, if the stamp is...
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8238535 |
Automatically generated incoming call distribution
Systems and methods are provided in which remote installed devices may be assigned various call-in times to contact a host controller. The host may schedule remote devices sequentially across...
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8129646 |
System and method for validating mailings received
The present subject matter relates generally to techniques and/or equipment for validating mail items within a mail processing system. Sort scheme data and mail item identification data are loaded...
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8073782 |
Advanced crypto round dater
There is provided a cryptographic round dater and its method of use. By capturing customer profile information and encoding the information on a label affixed to the customer's submitted mailpiece,...
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8049139 |
System and method for determining and employing consumable use by electric arc welders
A system and method for determining the approximate weight of metal consumables used by an electric arc welder over a period of welding time, the system comprises a program to calculate the total...
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7962648 |
Method for service processor discrimination and precedence in a Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) network
A method and apparatus for identifying and prioritizing applications and application servers in a Voice over IP network is disclosed. In a first embodiment, elements of signaling information are...
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7840492 |
Personal funds metering system and method
Methods and systems for dispensing value are described. In one configuration, a unique tangible indicia is enabled with a value and then disabled after the value is redeemed. In another...
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7756795 |
Mail piece verification system
A mail piece verification system for processing a mail piece having associated therewith mail piece data includes an incoming mail processing center, an outgoing mail processing center located...
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7739205 |
Arrangement for loading rate tables
An arrangement for loading rate tables has a switchover module that is connected between a meter of a postage meter machine and a modem, between a postage calculator of an external scale and the...
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7558761 |
Method and system for automatically associating a manually entered postage amount to a class of service
The present invention relates to a method for processing mail pieces to automatically associate a manually entered postage to a class of service and to a system which implements the method. The...
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7305073 |
Rate modelling
A method and apparatus are provided for generating a rate model (115) for use in determining a rate to be applied with respect to an instance of a product or service, system or process. The rate...
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7203666 |
Virtual postage metering system
A virtual postage metering system and method provides value added services corresponding to postage metering transactions. Funds are not stored at a user's site, reducing the risk of unauthorized...
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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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7103583 |
Method for data input into a service device and arrangement for the implementation of the method
A method and apparatus for data input into a service device allow a loading and updating of service data, particularly postage fee schedule tables, separated from one another in time. The method...
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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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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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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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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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6594648 |
Method for processing variable service data structures and display texts in a processing module and arrangement for the implementation of the method
In a method and an arrangement for processing variable service data structures and display texts, a processing module is provided having a microprocessor, a program memory in which an operating...
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6405183 |
Method and system for automatically transferring information in a data processing center
A method and system for automatically transferring information in a data processing system, including setting a counter within a data processing device to a predetermined time period and counting...
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6289351 |
Method and device for detecting presence or absence of validity in data needed to be updated
In a data providing method and device thereof for providing data in a simple manner at a highly efficient transmission rate, first data of a configuration where information relating to a valid...
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6119119 |
Data supplying method and device therefor
In a data providing method and device thereof for providing data in a simple manner at a highly efficient transmission rate, first data of a configuration where information relating to a valid...
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6061667 |
Modular rating engine, rating system and method for processing rating requests in a computerized rating system
The invention comprises a rating engine, system, and method for processing rating requests in a computerized rating system. One aspect of the invention is an object-oriented rating engine operable...
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6047263 |
Method of displaying information by an electronic price label
A method of displaying information associated with a special promotion by an electronic price label (EPL) which saves bandwidth at a start time of the special promotion. The method includes the...
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6041319 |
Method and system for telephone updates of postal scales
A postal scale system is updated, by telephone or other communication medium, by a remote service provider whenever postal rates or regulations are changed, without requiring shipment or...
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5953721 |
Data supplying method and device thereof
A method and apparatus for improving the efficiency of providing updated data over a transmission medium. Each data has associated information indicating the presence or absence of validity data....
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5852813 |
Method and arrangement for entering data into a postage meter machine
In a method and to an arrangement for entering data into a postage meter machine, after calling stored setting data, a routine is triggered that includes a manual input routine. The arrangement...
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5778348 |
Remote activation of rating capabilities in a computerized parcel manifest system
A method is provided for activating a rating capability in a microprocessor-based parcel manifest system. The method includes storing in the system's memory a number of rate tables, each containing...
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5710706 |
Method for entering data into a scale
In a method and an arrangement for entering data into a scale via a serial interface from the postage meter machine in order to load updating data into the scale via a connecting cable, a reception...
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5699258 |
Assembly for franking postal matter, and multi-carrier shipping system
A systen for franking postal matter comprises a control module, a printer module, a memory connected to the control module, a receiving device connected with the memory for receiving data...
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5606508 |
Assembly for franking postal matter
A system for franking postal matter comprises a control module, a printer module, a memory connected to the control module, a receiving device connected with the memory for receiving data...
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5602742 |
Postage metering system
A postage management system is disclosed that enables the use of one of a plurality of carriers from any station in the network. The system imprints postage on postal and private courier parcels...
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5307281 |
Device for weighing and automatically calculating postage for a mailing piece
A device for weighing and automatically computing the postage due on all services offered by a postal authority of a given country, both domestically and internationally. The device computes...
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5255196 |
Custom rate pack for postage systems
An improved postage scale (2). The scale contains a central processing unit (200) which calculates the amount of postage required for an article to be mailed. The central processing unit inputs...
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5008827 |
Central postage data communication network
A communication system for processing information for distribution, including: a central data station, a plurality of user stations, each of the user stations including a plurality of components...
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4908768 |
Inserter based mail manifesting system
An inserter based mail manifesting system includes a controller that processes sensed information and generates a manifest that can accompany mail to a postal depository.
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4763271 |
Method and apparatus for updating parameter data
A microprocessor based mailing system, wherein postal rate charts are provided on portable media such as floppy disks, having the capability to update such postal rate charts. The mailing system...
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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...
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4535419 |
System and method for computing fractional postage values
A postage value computing system includes both apparatus and a method for determining the postage of an article to be mailed for various domestic and international classes of postal service. Postal...
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4504915 |
Method and apparatus for individualized postage value computing
Automatic postage value computing for individually selected services is described using a replaceable individualized directory memory and a replaceable rate chart memory suitable with all directory...
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4430716 |
Postage value determining scale with expandable memory port
A postage value determining scale includes a processor which accesses postage data stored in a rate PROM carried on a card. In a basic implementation, the PROM card is mounted to a memory port...
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4241405 |
Database updating apparatus
In a storage system including a semi-permanent database there is provided apparatus for updating said database comprising: instrumentalities for reading magnetically recorded data and storing said...
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4138735 |
System for remotely resetting postage rate memories
A system for simultaneously writing current postage rate charts into remote memories associated with a plurality of postage scale or meter microprocessors incorporates carrier wave transmission of...
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4122532 |
System for updating postal rate information utilized by remote mail processing apparatus
A system for replacing obsolete postal rate data with new data used by a remote mail processing apparatus comprises a central data processor for generating the new data. An encoder translates the...
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4084242 |
Electronic postage weighing scale
An electronic weighing scale for determining the postage value of weighed articles. The scale features easily accessible electronics for a postal rate table in stored memory. Because the postal...
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