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Data Processing: Financial, Business Practice, Management, Or Cost/price Determination > For Cost/price > Postage Meter System Postage Meter SystemPostage Meter System patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/09/06 - 20060253405 - Post-delivery mail management system and method A mail management system transmits scanned images of unopened, delivered mail to a remotely located recipient, and then interactively receives commands from the recipient on how the mail is to be handled. Each scanned image is preferably associated with a secondary image including information relating to a mail management function. ... 09/14/06 - 20060206439 - Door-to-door parcel delivery information exchange system The object of the present invention is to provide the system capable of grasping a transaction state from a commodity purchase to the settlement and reception of the commodity. In order to achieve the objective, the processing means executes a processing such as storing a billing amount based on the ... 09/07/06 - 20060200429 - Method and system for prepaid inserter machine In a mail inserting machine that a user uses to process mailpieces for a prepaid quantity, a counter is installed in an inaccessible manner to keep count of the processed mailpieces. The machine is disabled when the prepaid quantity is used up. In order to allow the user to pay ... 08/03/06 - 20060173796 - System and method for printing multiple postage indicia An envelope having a window for allowing a printed postage indicia to show through is shown. According to a preferred embodiment, the postage indicia window may be provided with a glassine covering. Preferably the postage indicia may be put in a corner of a document to be mailed and the ... 08/03/06 - 20060173795 - System for dynamically providing address and indicia information A system for dynamically providing labeling information includes a meter with a communications port, and a label operable to receive and display address and indicia information from the meter. ... 06/29/06 - 20060143140 - Recipient preference mail communications service A method for communicating mailing preferences of a mail recipient including a messenger for use in connection with an unsolicited mailpiece received by a mail recipient. The messenger functions to communicate a mailing preference to the sender of the unsolicited mailpiece that the mail recipient desires some change regarding future ... 06/08/06 - 20060122947 - Automatic revenue protection and adjustment of postal indicia products A method for performing automatic account adjustment including performing automatic account adjustment processing on an account associated with a source of a unique postal indicium, if scanned information about the unique postal indicium indicates an incorrect tariff associated with a mail piece to which the unique postal indicium is affixed. ... 05/18/06 - 20060106738 - Automatic address validation An identifier is received with a portion of a postal address. That portion is compared against multiple additional postal addresses associated with the identifier. If a match is detected, a confirmation is transmitted to a requestor who originally sent the identifier and the portion of the postal address. ... 04/27/06 - 20060089921 - Mailpiece tracking A method and system to process and track mailpieces. A code is printed on the mailpiece that can include an identification of a metering device generating the code and a subscriber number of a subscriber generating the mailpiece. The code is scanned during a processing step in a mailpiece delivery ... 11/17/05 - 20050256811 - Virtual security device A system and method for remote postage metering of postage indicia, including demanding a desired postage amount and subsequently printing the postage indicia onto a piece of mail. A user inputs certain necessary information, as well as additional desired information, into a local processor-based system. The local system then assembles ... 10/27/05 - 20050240540 - System and method for efficient configuration in a fixed network automated meter reading system Meters are configured using either a program update method or a meter update method. In the program update method, meters associated with a specified configuration program are identified and configured with updated parameters. In the meter update method, a specified set of meters is configured with a specified set of ... 10/20/05 - 20050234836 - Method and system for payment of permit mail A system and method that allows mailers of all sizes to pay for permit mail without presenting cash or a check at the time of induction is provided. A permit payment aggregator establishes a master account with the postal system for the payment of permit mail. A plurality of mailers ... 10/20/05 - 20050234835 - Label making apparatus and method A label making apparatus that includes a computer with a label program and a label meter program. The label program has a positional palette feature that permits the assignment of an attribute scheme to character positions of a multi-position label independent of the alphanumeric content of the positions. Other features ... 10/13/05 - 20050228761 - Manifesting mail for legal electronic proof of induction/acceptance A method for electronic proof of induction/acceptance for manifested special service mail. The foregoing may be accomplished by having the post office notify the mailer's postage meter of the induction/acceptance of the manifested mail pieces when the post office scans the manifest and mail pieces at the beginning of the ... 10/13/05 - 20050228760 - Special service mail electronic uploads with automatic return of legal electronic proof of induction / acceptance A method for permitting mailers to obtain legal proof of induction/acceptance of mail pieces without requiring the mailer to bring the mail piece to the post office. The foregoing may be accomplished by having the post office notify the mailer's postage meter of the induction/acceptance of the mail piece when ... 09/08/05 - 20050197974 - Standardizing intelligent mail processing Standardizing a mail processing system. An intelligient mail processing system provides a mail tracking code affixed to each mail piece and a mail tracking procedure using the mail tracking code. Tasks that comprise the mail processing system are identified, and the mail processing system is implemented through documentation and training. ... 09/01/05 - 20050192911 - Application program interface for postal security device An application program interface includes a function for adding a communication port for one or more PSD's and automatically initializing the one or more PSD's, a function adding an indicia stream to the one or more initialized PSD's to cause the one or more initialized PSD's to generate an indicia ... 09/01/05 - 20050192910 - Mail franking system with a secure external printing mode A method of having a postal imprint printed by an external imprint label dispenser connected via a communications link to a postage meter, said method comprising the following steps: during an initialization step for initializing the communications link, the postage meter authenticating the imprint label dispenser by exchanging an authentication ... 08/25/05 - 20050187885 - Methods and systems for sending a gift to a mailbox A consumer may purchase a single item containing a gift, a shipping package, and pre-paid postage. The consumer may write a recipient's address on the shipping package and deposit the package in any delivery receptacle for delivery to the recipient. A delivery receptacle may be available at the point of ... 07/14/05 - 20050154684 - Method for distributing bulk mailings The invention relates to a method for distributing bulk. The inventive method includes the following steps: supplying the bulk mailing, whereby the individual postal articles are unaddressed, and electronically transmitting the associated destination address data from the sender to the delivery service; comparing the transmitted destination address data with the ... 06/23/05 - 20050137988 - Method and system to protect and track data from multiple meters on a removable storage medium A system and method for allowing multiple postage meters to utilize removable storage media to accurately track and protect data generated during use is provided. A unique identifier is provided for each removable storage medium, and the removable storage medium is associated with a single meter. A catalog of additional ... 06/16/05 - 20050131841 - Stamp book with order information carrier The invention relates to a stamp book comprising at least one stamp sheet (1) and a card-type order information carrier (3), wherein the stamp sheet (1) and the order information carrier (3) are detachably connected with each other, and wherein the order information carrier (3) is prepared for postal transportation ... 06/16/05 - 20050131840 - Method and system for generating characterizing information descriptive of selected printed material such as a particular address block A method and system for characterizing blocks of printed material. A digital image of printed material, such as an address block, on an object is obtained, and the image is processed to abstract characterizing information descriptive aspects of the other printed material. The characterizing information is combined with other information, ... 06/09/05 - 20050125365 - Apparatus for automatic determination of a product description for display by means of a mail-processing device A mail-processing device that undertakes automatic generation of a product description has a programmable memory, a program memory, a working memory, a keyboard with operating elements, and a microprocessor, wherein either the program memory or the programmable memory has a memory range containing a program for evaluating mail-item-related data values ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |