公开(公告)号：US20100274608A1

公开(公告)日：2010-10-28

申请号：US12747581

申请日：2008-12-01

申请人： Leon A. Pintsov ,  Andrei Obrea

发明人： Leon A. Pintsov ,  Andrei Obrea

IPC分类号： G06F17/50

CPC分类号： G06Q50/32 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06Q30/0206

摘要： The invention creates new carrier products under control of a computer. This is achieved via formal representations of postal and carrier products. It should be understood that the term new product applies to both a completely new product containing an entirely new set of features as well as an update to an existing product with possibly only a few new features or modifications are added.

摘要翻译： 本发明在计算机的控制下创建新的运营商产品。 这是通过邮政和运营商产品的正式表示来实现的。 应当理解，新产品一词适用于包含全新功能的全新产品，以及对现有产品的更新，可能只添加少量新功能或修改。

公开(公告)号：US07765169B2

公开(公告)日：2010-07-27

申请号：US12125092

申请日：2008-05-22

申请人： Leon A. Pintsov ,  Andrei Obrea

发明人： Leon A. Pintsov ,  Andrei Obrea

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： G07B17/00661 ,  G07B2017/00709

摘要： Systems and methods for authenticating the mailer of a mail piece in a manner that is trustworthy and not easily susceptible to fraudulent manipulation are provided. A mail processing system is utilized by recipients of mail pieces to scan each incoming mail piece. The mail processing system obtains information from the mail piece, which can include an identification of the postage meter that was used to generate the indicium. Based on the identification of the postage meter or other unique information, the recipient's mail processing system can obtain an identification of the mailer. Once the identification of the mailer is ascertained based on this information, the recipient can utilize one or more business rules for internal delivery of the mail piece.

摘要翻译： 提供了以可信赖且不容易受到欺诈操作的方式认证邮件邮件的系统和方法。 邮件收件人利用邮件处理系统来扫描每个邮件。 邮件处理系统从邮件中获取信息，该邮件可以包括用于生成邮戳的邮资计费器的标识。 基于邮资计费器或其他独特信息的识别，收件人的邮件处理系统可以获取邮件的标识。 一旦基于该信息确定了邮寄者的识别，接收者可以利用一个或多个业务规则来内部递送邮件。

公开(公告)号：US20100169242A1

公开(公告)日：2010-07-01

申请号：US12345587

申请日：2008-12-29

申请人： Edilberto I. Salazar ,  Robert A. Cordery ,  Leon A. Pintsov ,  Richard Schoonmaker ,  Boris Rozenfeld ,  David W. Beckstrom

发明人： Edilberto I. Salazar ,  Robert A. Cordery ,  Leon A. Pintsov ,  Richard Schoonmaker ,  Boris Rozenfeld ,  David W. Beckstrom

IPC分类号： G06F17/00 ,  B07C3/14

CPC分类号： G07B17/00467 ,  G07B2017/00379 ,  G07B2017/00475 ,  G07B2017/00572 ,  G07B2017/0062 ,  G07B2017/00709

摘要： Systems and methods including mailing machines configured to selecting a route and carrier or carriers for delivery of the mail and for finishing the mail according the selection are described. In one illustrative configuration, the mailing machine tags mail pieces according to the result of a carrier selection process and sorts the outgoing mail by carrier.

摘要翻译： 描述了包括邮寄机的系统和方法，其被配置为选择用于传送邮件的路线和运营商或运营商以及根据选择完成邮件。 在一个说明性配置中，邮寄机根据承运人选择过程的结果对邮件进行标记，并通过运营商对外发邮件进行排序。

公开(公告)号：US07475041B2

公开(公告)日：2009-01-06

申请号：US10719050

申请日：2003-11-21

申请人： Leon A. Pintsov ,  Matthew J. Campagna ,  Danny Lelli

发明人： Leon A. Pintsov ,  Matthew J. Campagna ,  Danny Lelli

IPC分类号： G06F17/60

CPC分类号： G07B17/00508 ,  G06Q20/3674 ,  G07B2017/00443 ,  G07B2017/0058 ,  G07B2017/00725 ,  G07B2017/00766

摘要： A method and system for generating and printing an indicium, such as a postal indicium, on an object such as a mail piece. Other printed material, such as an address block, on the object is scanned, and the scanned image is processed to abstract characterizing information descriptive of the other printed material. Alternatively, the image to be processed can be obtained by filtering the original image wit a print/scan filter which simulates printing and scanning processes. The characterizing information can be text-based or image-based. Image-based characterizing information can be measurements of word lengths, counts of outliers in images of characters, or descriptions of the shape of the other printed material. The characterizing information is combined with other information, such as postal information and the combined information is then cryptographically authenticated with a digital signature or the like. An indicium representative of the authenticated information is then printed on the object. The object's relationship to the indicium can be verified by regenerating the characterizing information from the other printed material and comparing the regenerated characterizing information with characterizing information recovered from the indicium. Thus, copies of the indicium cannot easily be used, without detection, on other objects which do not include the other printed material.

摘要翻译： 用于在诸如邮件的对象上生成和打印诸如邮戳的标记的方法和系统。 扫描对象上的其他打印材料（如地址块），并处理扫描图像以抽象描述其他打印材料的特征信息。 或者，可以通过模拟打印和扫描处理的打印/扫描过滤器对原始图像进行滤波来获得要处理的图像。 特征信息可以是基于文本或基于图像的。 基于图像的特征信息可以是字长度的测量，字符图像中的异常值的计数或其他印刷材料的形状的描述。 特征信息与诸如邮政信息的其他信息组合，然后利用数字签名等对组合的信息进行密码认证。 然后将经过认证的信息的标记印在对象上。 可以通过从其他印刷材料再生表征信息并将再生的特征信息与从标记中回收的特征信息进行比较来验证对象与标记的关系。 因此，标签的副本不能容易地被用于不包括其他印刷材料的其他物体上。

公开(公告)号：US20080313104A1

公开(公告)日：2008-12-18

申请号：US11811989

申请日：2007-06-13

申请人： Leon A. Pintsov

发明人： Leon A. Pintsov

IPC分类号： G07B17/02

CPC分类号： G07B17/00467 ,  G07B2017/00475 ,  G07B2017/00483

摘要： A method and system of providing postage wherein delivery fee discounts are provided based on one or more sorting levels in which mail pieces are run through the system twice. In the first run, postal codes are obtained from the mail pieces, a running tally for each participating sorting level code in each sorting level is kept, and for each code in the highest sorting level that has a tally that reaches a predetermined minimum, an indicium reflecting the highest discount is printed on: (i) the mail piece whose postal code caused the tally to reach the minimum, and (ii) any mail pieces to that postal code that are processed thereafter. In the second run, for each mail piece not having a printed indicium, an indicium is printed which reflects a proper sorting level discount, if any, based on the postal code obtained therefrom and one or more of the tallies.

摘要翻译： 一种提供邮寄的方法和系统，其中基于邮件通过系统运行两次的一个或多个排序级别来提供传送费折扣。 在第一次运行中，从邮件获得邮政编码，保留每个排序级别中每个参与排序级代码的运行计数，对于具有达到预定最小值的最高排序级别的每个代码， 反映最高折扣的标签印在：（i）邮政编码使其达到最低限度的邮件，以及（ii）此后处理的邮政编码的邮件。 在第二次运行中，对于没有打印标记的每个邮件，打印标记，其基于从其获得的邮政编码和一个或多个提案反映适当的排序级别折扣（如果有的话）。

公开(公告)号：US20080300938A1

公开(公告)日：2008-12-04

申请号：US12100443

申请日：2008-04-10

申请人： Leon A. Pintsov ,  Andrei Obrea

发明人： Leon A. Pintsov ,  Andrei Obrea

IPC分类号： G06Q10/00

CPC分类号： G07B17/00 ,  G06Q10/06315

摘要： An automated process that allows the posts to obtain a computer description of mailer's requirements for new carrier products and a description of available carrier operational constraints and capabilities in computer processable format; translating the mailer's requirements for the new carrier products into a sequence of computer actionable instructions that may be exercisable by carrier operations; and comparing by the computer the sequence of computer actionable instructions and the carrier operational constraints and capabilities to determine feasibility of the mailers requirements.

摘要翻译： 一个自动化过程，允许职位获取邮件员对新运营商产品的要求的计算机描述以及计算机可处理格式的可用运营商运营约束和能力的描述; 将邮递员对新载体产品的要求翻译成可由运营商操作执行的一系列计算机可执行指令; 并通过计算机比较计算机可操作指令的顺序和载波操作约束和能力来确定邮件员要求的可行性。

公开(公告)号：US07424458B2

公开(公告)日：2008-09-09

申请号：US10719051

申请日：2003-11-21

申请人： Leon A. Pintsov ,  Matthew J. Campagna ,  Danny Lelli

发明人： Leon A. Pintsov ,  Matthew J. Campagna ,  Danny Lelli

IPC分类号： G06F17/60

CPC分类号： G07B17/00733 ,  G07B2017/0058 ,  G07B2017/0083

摘要： A method and system for generating and printing an indicium, such as a postal indicium, on an object such as a mail piece. A digital image of other printed material, such as an address block, on the object is obtained, and the image is processed to abstract characterizing information descriptive aspects of the other printed material. The aspects can be measurements of word lengths, counts of outliers in images of characters, or descriptions of the shape of the other printed material. The characterizing information is combined with other information, such as postal information, and the combined information is then cryptographically authenticated with a digital signature or the like. An indicium representative of the authenticated information is then printed on the object. The object's relationship to the indicium can be verified by regenerating the characterizing information from the other printed material and comparing the regenerated characterizing information with characterizing information recovered from the indicium. Thus, copies of the indicium cannot easily be used, without detection, on other objects which do not include the other printed material.

摘要翻译： 用于在诸如邮件的对象上生成和打印诸如邮戳的标记的方法和系统。 获得对象上的诸如地址块的其他打印材料的数字图像，并处理图像以抽象其他印刷材料的特征描述性方面。 这些方面可以是字长的测量，字符图像中的异常值的计数或其他印刷材料的形状的描述。 特征信息与诸如邮政信息的其他信息组合，然后利用数字签名等对组合的信息进行密码认证。 然后将经过认证的信息的标记印在对象上。 可以通过从其他印刷材料再生表征信息并将再生的特征信息与从标记中回收的特征信息进行比较来验证对象与标记的关系。 因此，标签的副本不能容易地被用于不包括其他印刷材料的其他物体上。

公开(公告)号：US06430543B1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-06

申请号：US09195472

申请日：1998-11-18

申请人： David K Lee ,  Leon A. Pintsov ,  Monroe A. Weiant, Jr.

发明人： David K Lee ,  Leon A. Pintsov ,  Monroe A. Weiant, Jr.

IPC分类号： G06F1700

CPC分类号： G07B17/00435 ,  G06Q20/10 ,  G07B17/0008 ,  G07B17/00508 ,  G07B2017/00169 ,  G07B2017/00483 ,  G07B2017/00491 ,  G07B2017/0058 ,  G07B2017/00725

摘要： A method for processing controlled acceptance mail includes creating, at a first location, a batch of mail including a plurality of mailpieces, each of the plurality of mailpieces having unique indicia data printed thereon which identifies a source of creation of the batch of mail and a unique identifier for a corresponding one of the plurality of mailpieces upon which the unique indicia data is printed; generating, at the first location, a manifest containing all of the unique indicia data for each of the plurality of mailpieces; cryptographically protecting the manifest; sending the cryptographically protected manifest to a second location; verifying the authenticity of the cryptographically protected manifest at the second location; providing the batch of mail to a carrier distribution system for distribution; as part of the carrier distribution system reading unique indicia data from selected mailpieces being distributed therein and sending the unique indicia data for each of the selected mailpieces to the second location; and comparing, at the second location, the unique indicia data received from the carrier distribution system for each of the selected mailpieces with all of the unique indicia data in the manifest to determine if any one of the unique indicia data received from the carrier distribution system matches any of the unique indicia data in the manifest.

摘要翻译： 一种用于处理受控接受邮件的方法包括在第一位置创建包括多个邮件的一批邮件，所述多个邮件中的每一个具有打印在其上的唯一标记数据，其标识该批邮件的创建源，以及 所述多个邮件中对应的一个邮件的唯一标识符，在其上打印唯一标记数据; 在第一位置产生包含多个邮件中的每一个的所有唯一标记数据的清单; 密码保护清单; 将加密保护的清单发送到第二位置; 验证密码保护清单在第二位置的真实性; 将一批邮件提供给承运人分配系统进行分发; 作为载体分配系统的一部分，从其中分发的所选邮件读取唯一的标记数据，并将每个所选邮件的唯一标记数据发送到第二位置; 以及在所述第二位置处，与所述载体分配系统中的每个所选择的邮件接收的唯一标记数据与所述清单中的所有唯一标记数据进行比较，以确定是否从所述载体分配系统接收到的唯一标记数据中的任何一个 匹配清单中的任何唯一的标记数据。

公开(公告)号：US06289109B1

公开(公告)日：2001-09-11

申请号：US08174901

申请日：1993-12-29

申请人： Ronald E. Gocht ,  Leon A. Pintsov

发明人： Ronald E. Gocht ,  Leon A. Pintsov

IPC分类号： G06K900

CPC分类号： G06K9/00469

摘要： An apparatus for determining the location and content of data blocks on a mailpiece includes a computer connected to a structure for obtaining a digital bit map image of an outer surface of a mailpiece. The computer includes structure programmed for: finding each run of a plurality of black bits of each scan line of the bit map image and determining if any bit thereof neighbors at least one black bit of another scan line; combining the found run with each neighboring bit to form a piece; assigning a descriptive value to a block having at least one piece and comparing the descriptive value to a list of values to determine which type of data block the block having the descriptive value is.

摘要翻译： 用于确定邮件上的数据块的位置和内容的装置包括连接到用于获得邮件的外表面的数字位图图像的结构的计算机。 计算机包括被编程用于：查找位图图像的每个扫描线的多个黑位的每次运行并确定其任何位是否与另一扫描线的至少一个黑位相邻的结构; 将发现的运行与每个相邻位组合形成一个块; 向具有至少一个片段的块分配描述值，并将描述值与值列表进行比较，以确定具有描述值的块的哪种类型的数据块。

公开(公告)号：US6035290A

公开(公告)日：2000-03-07

申请号：US911856

申请日：1997-08-15

申请人： Leon A. Pintsov

发明人： Leon A. Pintsov

IPC分类号： G07B17/00 ,  G06F12/16

CPC分类号： G07B17/00733 ,  G07B17/00435 ,  G07B2017/00443 ,  G07B2017/00483 ,  G07B2017/0075 ,  G07B2017/00766 ,  G07B2017/0083

摘要： A cryptographic method where items, such as mail pieces, are verified for authenticity includes determining a predetermined number of items selected for verification during a given period and maintaining a count of the number of items verified. The predetermined number is compared with the number of items verified. The verification process may continue if a match occurs and may be stopped if a match does not occur. The verifier includes means for inputting data relating to an item to be verified and access counter means for counting the number of items verified.

摘要翻译： 验证诸如邮件之类的物品的真实性的加密方法包括确定在给定时间段期间选择用于验证的预定数量的项目并且维持所验证的项目数量的计数。 将预定数量与验证的项目的数量进行比较。 如果发生匹配，验证过程可能会继续，如果不发生匹配，则可以停止验证过程。 验证器包括用于输入与要验证的物品相关的数据的装置，以及用于对所验证的物品的数量进行计数的访问计数器装置。