公开(公告)号：EP1727095B1

公开(公告)日：2011-08-24

申请号：EP06009776.3

申请日：2006-05-11

申请人： Pitney Bowes, Inc.

发明人： Ryan, Frederick W. ,  Braun, John F. ,  Sansone, Ronald P. ,  Cordery, Robert A.

IPC分类号： G07B17/00

CPC分类号： B41J11/009 ,  G07B17/00467 ,  G07B2017/00556

公开(公告)号：EP0647925B1

公开(公告)日：2006-02-08

申请号：EP94307376.7

申请日：1994-10-07

申请人： PITNEY BOWES INC.

发明人： Pintsov, Leon A. ,  Connell, Richard A. ,  Sansone, Ronald P. ,  Schmidt, Alfred C.

IPC分类号： G07B17/04

CPC分类号： G07B17/00733 ,  G07B17/0008 ,  G07B17/00435 ,  G07B2017/00161 ,  G07B2017/00443 ,  G07B2017/0058 ,  G07B2017/00782

公开(公告)号：EP1209598A3

公开(公告)日：2005-09-21

申请号：EP01127447.9

申请日：2001-11-27

申请人： PITNEY BOWES INC.

发明人： Sansone, Ronald P. ,  Siveyer, Ian A. ,  Sethi, Ahjaz A. ,  Law, Robert A. ,  Garvey, Susan ,  Moughty, Brian J.

IPC分类号： G06F17/60 ,  G09F3/02

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02 ,  G07B2017/0058 ,  G07B2017/0062 ,  G09F3/0288

摘要： A 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 goods may be delivered directly to the buyer, and postal employees will not have to manually complete the Merchandise Return Label. Since the mailing of the returned goods was paid for by a postage meter, the Post Office would not have to receive payment from the seller when the seller receives the package.

公开(公告)号：EP1544802A2

公开(公告)日：2005-06-22

申请号：EP04029296.3

申请日：2004-12-10

申请人： PITNEY BOWES INC.

发明人： Sansone, Ronald P. ,  Monsen, Erik D.N.

IPC分类号： G07B17/02

CPC分类号： G07B17/00508 ,  G07B17/00024 ,  G07B17/00362 ,  G07B2017/0037 ,  G07B2017/00427 ,  G07B2017/0062 ,  G07B2017/00629

摘要： A method for the prepayment by a shipper of customs duties and fees in a first country on shipments addressed for delivery in a second country that will be charged to the shippers' postage meter. For instance, if a package is mailed in the United Kingdom and delivered to a destination in the United States, the shipper's postage meter will place a Royal Mail postal indicia on the package for that portion of the postal delivery cost that is attributable to the United Kingdom post office and a United States Postal and Customs postal and customs indicia on the package for that portion of the delivery cost that is attributable to the United States Postal Service and United States Customs.

摘要翻译： 托运人在第一个国家预付货物的方法，用于在第二个国家运送货物，并将被运至托运人的邮资计费表。 例如，如果一个包裹在英国邮寄并运送到美国的目的地，托运人的邮资计费器将在包裹上放置一个皇家邮政邮政邮戳，用于归属于美国的邮政部分的邮政部分费用 王国邮政局和美国邮政和海关邮政和海关标志的一揽子计划，归因于美国邮政局和美国海关的部分运输成本。

公开(公告)号：EP1403825A3

公开(公告)日：2005-01-19

申请号：EP03021666.7

申请日：2003-09-26

申请人： PITNEY BOWES INC.

发明人： Sansone, Ronald P.

IPC分类号： G07B17/00

CPC分类号： G07B17/00508 ,  G07B2017/00629

摘要： A method that enables the USPS to be aware of the contents of mail and the identity of the party who licensed the postal meter that paid for the mailing. The foregoing is accomplished by placing human readable postal meter indicia on the mail that contains information that uniquely identifies the mail and the licensee of the meter in addition to incorporating a radio frequency identification tag on the mail that identifies the contents of the mail and the information that uniquely identifies the mail. Additional security will be obtained by knowing the identity of the mailer and the contents of the mailing. The radio frequency tags may be remotely read, enabling the USPS to be aware of the contents of the mail permitting different content mail to be handled differently.

公开(公告)号：EP1053798B1

公开(公告)日：2004-07-28

申请号：EP00110262.3

申请日：2000-05-19

申请人： PITNEY BOWES INC.

发明人： Sansone, Ronald P. ,  Blackman, Fran E. ,  Dlugos, Daniel F. ,  Pintsov, Leon A. ,  Stemmle, Denis J. ,  Hines, Francis X. Jr.

IPC分类号： B07C1/00 ,  B07C3/00

CPC分类号： B07C3/00

公开(公告)号：EP1246133A1

公开(公告)日：2002-10-02

申请号：EP02006679.1

申请日：2002-03-26

申请人： PITNEY BOWES INC.

发明人： Sansone, Ronald P. ,  Cordery, Robert A. ,  MacKay, Donald G.

IPC分类号： G07B17/00

CPC分类号： G07B17/00016 ,  G07B17/00024 ,  G07B2017/0004 ,  G07B2017/00072 ,  G07B2017/00145 ,  G07B2017/00161

摘要： A method that enables the recipient to receive notification of the letter mail, flats and/or packages (mail) that the recipient is going to receive prior to the delivery of the mail. The recipient is then able to inform a post or courier e.g., Federal Express®, Airborne®, United Parcel Service®, DHL®, etc. of the manner in which the recipient would like the mail delivered. The post and courier hereinafter will be referred to as "carrier". For instance, the recipient may want the mail physically delivered to their house faster or slower, or the mail physically redirected to the recipient's temporary address, or physically delivered to the recipient's agent, or physically delivered to the recipient's attorney, or physically returned to the mailer, or have the carrier open the physical mail and have the post e-mail or fax the contents of the envelope to the recipient and/or parties designated by the recipient.

摘要翻译： 一种方法，使收件人可以在邮件发送之前接收收件人将要收到的信件邮件，单位和/或包裹（邮件）的通知。 收件人然后能够通知邮递员或快递，例如联邦快递TM，Airborne TM，联合包裹服务TM，DHL TM等等，接收者希望邮寄的方式。 以下岗位和快递将被称为“承运人”。 例如，收件人可能希望邮件物理地交付给他们的房屋更快或更慢，或邮件物理地重定向到收件人的临时地址，或物理地传送到接收方的代理人，或者实际交付给收件人的律师，或者实际上返回到 或者让承运人打开实体邮件，并将信封的内容发送给收件人和/或接收方指定的各方。

公开(公告)号：EP1047025A3

公开(公告)日：2000-12-20

申请号：EP00108083.7

申请日：2000-04-25

申请人： PITNEY BOWES INC.

发明人： Sansone, Ronald P. ,  Law, Robert A. Jr.

IPC分类号： G07B17/04 ,  G07B17/00

CPC分类号： G07B17/00435 ,  G07B2017/00169 ,  G07B2017/00443

摘要： A method for detecting misuse of postal indicia, and an apparatus for executing the method. The method includes the steps of storing a first information signal indicative of a postal indicia on a mail piece to be posted, sensing a postal indicia on a received mail piece for providing a second information signal indicative of the sensed postal indicia, retrieving the first information signal, and comparing the first information signal with the second information signal for providing a misuse signal if the first information signal is not the same as the second information signal.

公开(公告)号：EP0901107A3

公开(公告)日：2000-09-06

申请号：EP98116808.1

申请日：1998-09-04

申请人： PITNEY BOWES INC.

发明人： McFiggans, Robert B. ,  Sansone, Ronald P.

IPC分类号： G07B17/00

CPC分类号： G07B17/0008 ,  G07B17/00661 ,  G07B2017/00169 ,  G07B2017/00443 ,  G07B2017/00709 ,  G07B2017/00725 ,  G07B2017/0083

摘要： A system in which originating mail processors would upload pertinent mail piece information on addressees, pointers or other identifiers automatically and periodically to a data center. The recipient addressee of the mail piece would temporarily configure his digital postage meter or mail processor as a mail receiver so that the postage meter or mail processor would read the digital indicia that was affixed to the currently delivered incoming mail. The incoming mail would be date/time stamped, opened (optionally) and the unique identifier that was placed in the postal indicia would be read. The recipient meter or mail processor would periodically upload to the data center raw data on the unique identifiers or codes that have been received. If, the received unique identifiers or codes match with the sender unique identifiers or codes in a reasonable amount of time, as would normally be the case, the sent and received codes cancel out, or are kept for statistical information on delivery times, etc. Non-matched codes could be flagged and reported to the originator for further investigation. Thus, the data center may be able to locate mis-sent or mis-routed mail and automatically feed back information on undelivered or undeliverable mail.

公开(公告)号：EP0901107A2

公开(公告)日：1999-03-10

申请号：EP98116808.1

申请日：1998-09-04

申请人： PITNEY BOWES INC.

发明人： Mcfiggans, Roberts B. ,  Sansone, Ronald P.

IPC分类号： G07B17/00

CPC分类号： G07B17/0008 ,  G07B17/00661 ,  G07B2017/00169 ,  G07B2017/00443 ,  G07B2017/00709 ,  G07B2017/00725 ,  G07B2017/0083

摘要： A system in which originating mail processors would upload pertinent mail piece information on addressees, pointers or other identifiers automatically and periodically to a data center. The recipient addressee of the mail piece would temporarily configure his digital postage meter or mail processor as a mail receiver so that the postage meter or mail processor would read the digital indicia that was affixed to the currently delivered incoming mail. The incoming mail would be date/time stamped, opened (optionally) and the unique identifier that was placed in the postal indicia would be read. The recipient meter or mail processor would periodically upload to the data center raw data on the unique identifiers or codes that have been received. If, the received unique identifiers or codes match with the sender unique identifiers or codes in a reasonable amount of time, as would normally be the case, the sent and received codes cancel out, or are kept for statistical information on delivery times, etc. Non-matched codes could be flagged and reported to the originator for further investigation. Thus, the data center may be able to locate mis-sent or mis-routed mail and automatically feed back information on undelivered or undeliverable mail.

摘要翻译： 一种系统，其中始发邮件处理器将自动和周期性地向数据中心上传关于收件人，指针或其他标识符的相关邮件信息。 邮件的收件人将临时将其数字邮资计费器或邮件处理器配置为邮件接收方，以便邮资计费器或邮件处理器将读取附加到当前传送的邮件的数字标记。 传入邮件将被日期/时间戳，打开（可选），并且将读取放置在邮戳中的唯一标识符。 接收者计费器或邮件处理器将周期性地将数据中心原始数据上载到已经接收到的唯一标识符或代码上。 如果接收到的唯一标识符或代码与合理时间内的发送者唯一标识符或代码一致，则通常情况下，发送和接收的代码将被取消，或者保留用于传送时间等的统计信息。 不匹配的代码可以被标记并发送给发起方进一步调查。 因此，数据中心可能能够定位错误发送或错误路由的邮件，并自动反馈未传递或不可传递邮件的信息。