| 7035832 |
System and method for automatically providing shipping/transportation fees |
| Apr-25-2006 |
There is disclosed a system and method for dispensing postage or other authorization information electronically by using a portable processor containing a maximum amount of preauthorized postage which... |
| 7003471 |
Method and system for accepting non-toxic mail that has an indication of the mailer on the mail |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A system that determines if mail contains life-harming materials before the mail enters the interior of a receptacle, i.e., mail box. This invention accomplishes the foregoing by issuing stamps that uniquely... |
| 6996546 |
System and methods for digital receipts |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A secure system for creating digital receipts, while minimizing the amount of data that is encoded in the digital receipt. The digital receipt provides authentication for a transaction. A digital receipt... |
| 6990469 |
Method for reissuing indicium in a postage metering system |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A method of reissuing secured postage indicium includes the steps of dispensing from a postage meter an original postage indicium as evidence of postage dispensed for a requested postage transaction, the... |
| 6978932 |
Apparatus for converting an envelope feeding machine into an internet connected postage machine |
| Dec-27-2005 |
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for using existing envelope feeding machines to print IBIP indicium, and CASS approved address information and bar code information. The invention is shown to include... |
| 6978190 |
Programming of cyclical machines |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A configurable running level model of a runtime system for the control tasks of an industrial controller for cyclical machines is created in a simple manner, enabling the programming of the machine sequence... |
| 6970856 |
Postage printing system having subsidized printing of third party messages |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A postage printing system, having a computer, a data center and a control system. The computer is in operative communication with a printer for printing a postal indicia on an envelope. The data center... |
| 6970855 |
Method and system for enterprise-level unassisted customer shipping |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A system and method for unassisted enterprise-level unassisted customer shipping is described providing for payment of shipping and item costs in a single transaction. In one configuration, a customer... |
| 6961717 |
Method for positioning an indicium for printing on a substrate and a system for carrying out such method and mailpiece produced by such method |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A method for positioning an indicium for printing on substrate. The indicium can be an IBIP type indicium and the substrate can be the surface of an envelope. The substrate has printable and complementary... |
| 6957197 |
Load planning tables for a parcel shipping system |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A system for managing shipping parcels that includes a specially adapted set of load planning tables, or, from another aspect, a set of load planning tables for use with a system for managing shipping... |
| 6941284 |
Method for dynamically using cryptographic keys in a postage meter |
| Sep-6-2005 |
A postage meter includes a vault that accounts for postage dispensed by the postage meter; and a printhead module having a printhead for printing the postage dispensed; a smart card chip having a ROM having... |
| 6939063 |
On-line system for printing postal indicia on custom sized envelopes |
| Sep-6-2005 |
The present invention is directed toward a method and system for printing indicia, logos and graphics and more particularly to systems and methods for printing postal indicia on custom sized envelopes.... |
| 6939062 |
System and layout for proper printing of netstamps and other labels |
| Sep-6-2005 |
A system for assisting a user with the proper feeding of sheets of labels into a printer so that the labels may be properly printed with postage indicia. The system providing a sheet bearing pre-printed... |
| 6938023 |
Method of limiting key usage in a postage metering system that produces cryptographically secured indicium |
| Aug-30-2005 |
A method for requiring that a key used in a cryptographic apparatus be changed includes the steps of: storing a constraint value for a non-time parameter of the cryptographic apparatus, the non-time parameter... |
| 6938018 |
Method and apparatus for a modular postage accounting system |
| Aug-30-2005 |
Apparatus and method for a modular postage accounting system. An open system metering device of the present invention includes a general purpose computer, a digital printer and a secure metering device... |
| 6938017 |
Scalable, fraud resistant graphical payment indicia |
| Aug-30-2005 |
Payment indicia generating schemes are described that enable users to customize the appearance of the payment indicium and to accommodate a wide variety of validation processing environments, while providing... |
| 6915280 |
Method and apparatus for printing postage |
| Jul-5-2005 |
The present invention is a postage meter apparatus and method for printing in which print software is decoupled from print data such that print image data can change without impacting software. The decoupling... |
| 6911910 |
Method for detecting and redirecting misdirected mail |
| Jun-28-2005 |
Radio frequency identification tags are placed on mail contained in trays or tubs to locate and reroute mail that is misdirected, i.e., being routed to the incorrect destination. The method involves the... |
| 6904419 |
Postal counter postage evidencing system with closed loop verification |
| Jun-7-2005 |
A method for auditing postage dispensing transactions at a postal facility includes the steps of: receiving in a secure processor based device a request to dispense an amount of postage; updating, in response... |
| 6901388 |
Method and system for metering mixed weight mail pieces at an increased average rate |
| May-31-2005 |
A method for printing indicia on mailpieces at an increased average speed. The system includes: a postal scale for determining a postage amount for a mail piece; a printer; and a postage meter responsive... |
| 6895395 |
Postal printing device with facilitated reading |
| May-17-2005 |
This invention relates to an inkjet printing device of a franking machine intended to print postal indicia on a mail piece to be franked, displaced with respect to this device in a direction of displacement,... |
| 6868395 |
Business transactions using the internet |
| Mar-15-2005 |
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 contains... |
| 6865558 |
Postage metering system having third party payment capability |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A payment processing system includes a data center, a postage metering system and a control system in operative communication with the data center and the postage metering system. The postage metering... |
| 6865557 |
Network open metering system |
| Mar-8-2005 |
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 systems... |
| 6853989 |
System and method for selecting and accounting for value-added services with a closed system meter |
| Feb-8-2005 |
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 information,... |
| 6847952 |
Postage metering system having multiple postage meter configuration capability |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A postage metering system includes a base and a user interface mounted to the base. The user interface includes a micro controller, an internal socket for receiving an integrated circuit chip and a smart... |
| 6816838 |
Production mail system having subsidies for printing of third party messages on mailpieces |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A production mail system for producing a mailpiece including an inserter system for feeding a document in a path of travel and into an envelope. The document includes a control code printed thereon. The... |
| 6813614 |
Method for re-keying postage metering devices |
| Nov-2-2004 |
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 new... |
| 6792110 |
Apparatus and method for enhancing the security of negotiable instruments |
| Sep-14-2004 |
The invention relates to an apparatus and method for enhancing the security of selected information associated with a negotiable document, such as the monetary value of a cheque. In the invention, one... |
| 6776098 |
System for printing information on a mailing medium |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A method and apparatus for printing information, such as postal indicia and other information, on a medium. The system is implemented by detecting a type of medium and entering a printing mode as a function... |
| 6741972 |
Method and apparatus for dynamically determining a printing location in a document for a postage indicia |
| May-25-2004 |
A processor based postage metering system includes structure for entering user input data including a fold configuration selected from a plurality of fold configurations; apparatus for accounting for postage... |
| 6741971 |
Self-contained multi-function system for preparing mail |
| May-25-2004 |
A self-contained multi-function system for preparing mail items, the system comprising a general-purpose computer for preparing a document to be sent and for preparing secure postage metering or "franking"... |
| 6721717 |
Method and system of printing postage indicia from an envelope design application |
| Apr-13-2004 |
The invention is a method and system for printing a postage meter indicia from a data processing system. The printing of the indicia is under control of an indicia control in an object linking and embedding... |
| 6714922 |
Method for returning merchandise |
| Mar-30-2004 |
Merchandise Return Label may be printed on a buyer's computer printer and paid for by the seller's postage meter. Goods mailed with the Merchandise Return Label will be considered metered mail. Returned... |
| 6711555 |
Method and apparatus for delivering mail items to non-postal route locations |
| Mar-23-2004 |
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 non-postal... |
| 6709018 |
Security envelope detectable for foreign substances |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A security envelope that allows a mail handler or recipient to inspect its contents for potentially harmful granular/powder substances without ever opening the envelope is provided. The envelope comprises... |
| 6687684 |
System and method for restrictively authorizing reprinting of mail pieces having postage indicia |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A postage printing system enables users to generate postage indicia and print mail pieces at client computers. Upon user determination of a mail piece print failure, a mail metering application on the... |
| 6672623 |
Modification of receiver surface to reject stamp cancellation information |
| Jan-6-2004 |
An official postal product, and a method and apparatus for making the official postal product. The official postal product includes a first image area having an official postal indicia a second image area... |
| 6648230 |
Method and apparatus for evaluating a confidence level of a decoded barcode |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and apparatus for evaluating a confidence level of a decoded barcode value is disclosed. A digit score is assigned to a digit within a barcode. When decoding the barcode, if a deduction is required... |
| 6622133 |
System and method for automatic mail operation with four state barcode |
| Sep-16-2003 |
A system and a method for automatic mail operation with four state barcode are provided. An automatic mail operation processing system with four state barcode in accordance with the present invention includes... |
| 6618709 |
Computer assisted and/or implemented process and architecture for web-based monitoring of energy related usage, and client accessibility therefor |
| Sep-9-2003 |
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 computer... |
| 6609117 |
System and method for distributing postage over a public network, enabling efficient printing of postal indicia on items to be mailed and authenticating the printed indicia |
| Aug-19-2003 |
A system is disclosed for distributing postage over a public network in a manner that is secure in the case of third party interception, indicia for which can be efficiently printed by a postal customer... |
| 6571223 |
System and method generating postal/carrier rates using encoded information |
| May-27-2003 |
A system and method for computing postal/carrier rates encodes a weight value for an item to be shipped or mailed in bar code form. The bar code is scanned, at a different location, to input the weight... |
| 6571213 |
Router utility for a parcel shipping system |
| May-27-2003 |
A router utility and corresponding method for routing a load of one or more shipments of parcels, for use in a system for managing shipping parcels that includes a shipping database and a planning engine... |
| 6549624 |
Apparatus and method for enhancing the security of negotiable documents |
| Apr-15-2003 |
The invention relates to an apparatus and method for enhancing the security of selected information associated with a negotiable document, such as the monetary value of a cheque. In the invention, one... |
| 6526393 |
Time controlled pre-paid delivery |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A method for generating, providing, and utilizing time controlled date sensitive pre-paid postage on an item to be delivered, including a desired delivery amount and personalized postage mark, with the... |
| 6517265 |
Loss of funds prevention for postage meters and personal computer meters |
| Feb-11-2003 |
In a postage meter, funds are requested from an accounting unit and transferred to a print buffer when a print registration sensor detects a mailpiece at a location that is sufficiently downstream of the... |
| 6456987 |
Personal computer-based mail processing system with security arrangement contained in the personal computer |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A mail processing system has a printing machine base station controlled via a personal computer. A printhead for a purely electronic printing is driven by a printing control electronics and, together with... |
| 6438530 |
Software based stamp dispenser |
| Aug-20-2002 |
A method for generating digital postage stamps wherein a data center receives a request from a PC for a selected number of digital postage stamps, concludes a payment transaction for the selected number... |
| 6438529 |
Method for operating a postage meter and addressing machine |
| Aug-20-2002 |
A method for operating a postage meter and addressing machine includes request steps for entering at least a shipping destination address, a step for generating the print image for the address field and... |
