公开(公告)号：US06834273B1

公开(公告)日：2004-12-21

申请号：US09298782

申请日：1999-04-23

申请人： Ronald P. Sansone ,  Robert A. Law, Jr.

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

IPC分类号： G06F1760

CPC分类号： G07B17/00435 ,  G07B17/00661 ,  G07B2017/00443 ,  G07B2017/00701 ,  G07B2017/00709

摘要： 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; maintaining a record of the postage that has been applied to the mail pieces and the characteristics of the mail pieces; scanning the mail pieces to determine if the correct postage has been paid; comparing the scanned and weighed mail pieces to the maintained record; and correcting any underpayments or overpayments.

摘要翻译： 用于校正邮件扫描和权衡的邮件的评级和支付的系统。 前述内容通过以下方式实现：在计量过程中唯一识别邮件; 保留邮件的邮资记录和邮件的特点; 扫描邮件，确定邮费是否已经支付; 将扫描和称重的邮件与维护的记录进行比较; 并纠正任何欠款或多付款项。

公开(公告)号：US06754366B2

公开(公告)日：2004-06-22

申请号：US09818195

申请日：2001-03-27

申请人： Ronald P. Sansone

发明人： Ronald P. Sansone

IPC分类号： G06K900

CPC分类号： G06K9/00 ,  G01N2001/022 ,  Y10S209/90

摘要： A method that enables the carrier of letters, flats and/or packages (mail) that are addressed to a recipient to determine if the mail contains life harming materials, before the mail is delivered to the recipient. The invention accomplishes the foregoing by receiving mail that is addressed to a recipient which contains material that may or may not be life harming; capturing an image of the face of the mail, which includes the name and physical address of the recipient; processing the image on the face of the mail to determine if characteristics of the image match characteristics of known mail that may contain life harming materials; testing the mail if the image contains characteristics of life harming material; and delivering the mail to the recipient if the image does not contain life harming characteristics.

摘要翻译： 在将邮件传递给收件人之前，使得能够将寄件人的信件，单位和/或包裹（邮件）的承运人发送给收件人以确定邮件是否包含生命危害材料的方法。 本发明通过接收发送给接收者的邮件来实现前述，该邮件包含可能或可能不会对生命造成伤害的材料; 捕获邮件的脸部图像，其中包含收件人的姓名和实际地址; 处理邮件面部的图像，以确定图像的特征是否匹配可能包含生命危害材料的已知邮件的特征; 如果图像含有生命危害材料的特征，则测试邮件; 并且如果图像不包含生命危害特征，则将邮件递送到接收者。

公开(公告)号：US06714922B1

公开(公告)日：2004-03-30

申请号：US09722812

申请日：2000-11-27

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

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

IPC分类号： G06F1760

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

摘要： 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.

摘要翻译： 商品退货标签可能会印在买方的电脑打印机上，并由卖家的邮资计费器支付。 与商品退货标签邮寄的商品将被视为计费邮件。 退回的货物可能直接交给买方，邮政雇员不必手动完成商品退货标签。 由于退回货物的邮寄由邮资费支付，所以当卖方收到包裹时，邮局不必从卖方处收到付款。

公开(公告)号：US06547136B1

公开(公告)日：2003-04-15

申请号：US09723021

申请日：2000-11-27

申请人： Ronald P. Sansone

发明人： Ronald P. Sansone

IPC分类号： G06F1760

CPC分类号： G06Q30/06 ,  G07B17/00508 ,  G07B2017/0062

摘要： A Merchandise Return Label may be printed with a unique number 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.

摘要翻译： 商品退货标签可以在买方的计算机打印机上印有唯一的号码，并由卖家的邮资计费器支付。 与商品退货标签邮寄的商品将被视为计费邮件。 退回的货物可能直接交给买方，邮政雇员不必手动完成商品退货标签。 由于退回货物的邮寄由邮资费支付，所以当卖方收到包裹时，邮局不必从卖方处收到付款。

公开(公告)号：US06509976B1

公开(公告)日：2003-01-21

申请号：US09298695

申请日：1999-04-23

申请人： Robert A. Law, Jr. ,  Ronald P. Sansone

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

IPC分类号： G06F1300

CPC分类号： G07B17/00435 ,  G07B2017/00169 ,  G07B2017/00427 ,  G07B2017/00443

摘要： A system for maintaining a record of the postage that has been applied to a mail piece and the characteristics of the mail piece and the contents of the mail piece that identify the amount of value added tax that is included in the postage. The value added tax mail monitoring system includes: a plurality of mailers digital units that stores unique information contained in a postal indicia affixed to mail, wherein the unique information includes the amount of value added tax paid for each piece of mail; a plurality of postal units that reads and stores the unique information contained in the postal indicia; and a data center that receives information stored by the mailers units and the unique information read by the postal units to determine if a proper amount of value added tax has been paid for servicing and handling the mail.

摘要翻译： 用于维护已经应用于邮件的邮资记录和邮件的特征以及邮件的内容的系统，用于识别包含在邮资中的增值税的金额。 增值税邮件监控系统包括：多个邮件数字单元，其存储包含在贴在邮件上的邮戳中的唯一信息，其中唯一信息包括为每条邮件支付的增值税金额; 多个邮件单元，用于读取和存储包含在邮戳中的唯一信息; 以及数据中心，其接收邮寄单元存储的信息和由邮政单位读取的唯一信息，以确定是否已经为维修和处理邮件支付了适当的增值税数额。

公开(公告)号：US06466948B1

公开(公告)日：2002-10-15

申请号：US09473587

申请日：1999-12-28

申请人： Paul A. Levitsky ,  Ronald P. Sansone

发明人： Paul A. Levitsky ,  Ronald P. Sansone

IPC分类号： G06F1700

CPC分类号： G01G19/005 ,  Y10S707/99934 ,  Y10S707/99945 ,  Y10S707/99948

摘要： The invention is a method and system for determining a weight for use in a shipping application and for the establishment of a trainable weights database and a weight database training object. The method begins with establishing a database linked to the shipping application. The weight of a parcel to be shipped is determined by comparing a data entry at the shipping application with a set of data entries resident in the database. The comparison is performed by entering a description of the parcel to the system, and parsing the description to determine whether or not the data includes a known symbology or barcode. If it does, then the method matches the description with a locator function to locate the required weight; otherwise, the description is further parsed into match fields. If the comparison determines a weight, then the weight is returned to the shipping application for entry in an appropriate field; however, if the comparison does not return a weight, then a weight is determined by selecting an option from among a set of weight input options which includes an auto search mode. The determined weight is then input to the database in respect of a set of parameters resident in the data entry so that the determined weight can be used for subsequent transactions. Another aspect of the present invention, is a method of establishing and utilizing a weight database training object which is invoked to determine a weight to enter into the weight field of the shipping application.

摘要翻译： 本发明是用于确定在运输应用中使用的重量以及建立可训练权重数据库和权重数据库训练对象的方法和系统。 该方法开始于建立与运送应用程序相关联的数据库。 通过将运送应用程序中的数据条目与驻留在数据库中的一组数据条目进行比较来确定要运输的包裹的重量。 通过将包裹的描述输入到系统来执行比较，并且解析描述以确定数据是否包括已知的符号体系或条形码。 如果这样做，则该方法将描述与定位器函数匹配以定位所需的权重; 否则，描述进一步解析成匹配字段。 如果比较确定重量，则将重量返回给运送应用程序以在适当的字段中输入; 然而，如果比较不返回权重，则通过从包括自动搜索模式的一组权重输入选项中选择选项来确定权重。 然后将所确定的权重相对于驻留在数据条目中的一组参数输入到数据库，使得所确定的权重可以用于后续交易。 本发明的另一方面是建立和利用权重数据库训练对象的方法，该对象被调用以确定进入运送应用的权重域的权重。

公开(公告)号：US06318856B1

公开(公告)日：2001-11-20

申请号：US09458151

申请日：1999-12-09

申请人： Ronald P. Sansone

发明人： Ronald P. Sansone

IPC分类号： B41J201

CPC分类号： B41J21/16 ,  G07B17/00508 ,  G07B2017/00532 ,  G07B2017/00637

摘要： A device in a postage meter that uses dot or drop printing to enhance security. Security is achieved by counting the number of signal pulses that are used to produce ink drops or ink dots that are required to produce the entire document or specific regions of the document. The aforementioned may be accomplished by adding a smart module to digital print head modules. The smart module would capture driver pulses from the print head module and interpret the pulses associated with regions of the image. Thus, the smart module would take data from the printer controller that is used to cut off printing when the ink is consumed and relate “set” values to the drops produced during the production of the document or portions of the document, thereby linking the document to the actual volume of ink produced.

摘要翻译： 邮资计费器中的一种设备，使用点阵式打印机来增强安全性。 通过计数用于产生产生整个文档或文档的特定区域所需的墨滴或墨点的信号脉冲的数量来实现安全性。 上述可以通过将智能模块添加到数字打印头模块来实现。 智能模块将从打印头模块捕获驱动器脉冲，并解释与图像区域相关的脉冲。 因此，智能模块将从打印机控制器获取数据，该打印机控制器在墨水消耗时用于切断打印，并且将“设置”值与在文档或文档部分的制作过程中产生的墨滴相关联，从而将文档 到生产的墨水的实际体积。

公开(公告)号：US06188996B1

公开(公告)日：2001-02-13

申请号：US09083952

申请日：1998-05-22

申请人： Ronald P. Sansone

发明人： Ronald P. Sansone

IPC分类号： G07B1702

CPC分类号： G07B17/00508 ,  G07B2017/00645 ,  G07B2017/00653

摘要： A permit mail metering system that preprints the non-variable portion of an indicia. The pre-printed portions may be printed with a fluorescent and phosphorescent ink, while other pre-printed portions may be printed using standard colored or black inks. Some variable printed portions may be printed with a fluorescent and phosphorescent ink, while other variable portions may be printed using standard colored or black non-luminescent inks.

摘要翻译： 许可证邮件计量系统，其预印标记的不可变部分。 可以用荧光和磷光油墨印刷预打印部分，而使用标准彩色或黑色墨水可以打印其它预打印部分。 一些可变印刷部分可以用荧光和磷光油墨印刷，而其它可变部分可以使用标准彩色或黑色非发光油墨印刷。

公开(公告)号：US5909373A

公开(公告)日：1999-06-01

申请号：US708141

申请日：1996-09-03

申请人： Ronald P. Sansone ,  George B. Harvey

发明人： Ronald P. Sansone ,  George B. Harvey

IPC分类号： G07B17/00 ,  G06F15/20

CPC分类号： G07B17/0008 ,  G07B2017/00161

摘要： A postal meter is contained in a kiosk. The kiosk also contains a postage meter secure classifier; and a modem link, which communicates with a data center, that is located at a different location. The secure classifier records every time postal funds are dispensed by the postal meter and classifies the postal transactions of the postage meter into various categories, which are then stored in funds registers memory. The modem link communicates with the secure classifier and the data center, during a postage meter refill, by exchanging funds and information so that proper rebates will be applied to the kiosk owner. Thus, the data center may also be used to supply additional funds or refills to the postage meter contained within the kiosk.

摘要翻译： 一个邮政信箱中包含一个邮局。 报亭还包含一个邮资表安全分类器; 以及与位于不同位置的数据中心通信的调制解调器链路。 安全分类器记录每次邮政资金由邮资计量器分配后，将邮资计费器的邮政交易分类为各种类别，然后存储在资金登记记忆体中。 调制解调器链路通过交换资金和信息在安全分类器和数据中心，在邮资计费器充值期间进行通信，以便适当的折扣将应用于信息亭所有者。 因此，数据中心也可用于向包含在信息亭内的邮资计费器提供额外的资金或补充。

公开(公告)号：US5717596A

公开(公告)日：1998-02-10

申请号：US388939

申请日：1995-02-15

申请人： Joel P. Bernard ,  Pierre Coupe ,  Jean Paul DeBuchy ,  Didier LeDuc ,  Pascal Rougeau ,  Ronald P. Sansone ,  Fran.cedilla.ois Touchet

发明人： Joel P. Bernard ,  Pierre Coupe ,  Jean Paul DeBuchy ,  Didier LeDuc ,  Pascal Rougeau ,  Ronald P. Sansone ,  Fran.cedilla.ois Touchet

IPC分类号： G06Q30/04 ,  G06Q40/00 ,  G07B17/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/04 ,  G06Q40/12 ,  G07B17/0008 ,  G07B17/00362 ,  G07B17/00661 ,  G07B2017/00096 ,  G07B2017/00298 ,  G07B2017/0037 ,  G07B2017/00427 ,  G07B2017/00483 ,  G07B2017/00701

摘要： The invention is a method for franking, accounting, and billing of mail pieces and services. The method is based upon the ability of a data processing system to communicate with a postage meter through the use of a meter linking device. Additionally, an application program within the data processing system, in which a customer account can be established and/or altered, is initialized. Customer account data is then entered into the application. Once the customer account has been established or verified, a transaction is initiated. First, the mail pieces to be placed into the mail stream are weighed on a weighing scale. The weight is converted using an appropriate rate table so as to determine the amount of postage to be franked by the postage meter. The postage meter performs a franking of the mail piece and the system records the amount of postage applied; further, the system calculates any discounts or surcharges that are applicable to this customer's account. Both the value franked and the actual amount to be charged are posted to the customer account. Next, the system operator determines whether or not a service or a mail product is to be included in the transaction, and then enters a value in the appropriate field for the service or mail product. If the transaction data or values are incorrect, then a modification can be performed. Additionally, accounts can be corrected through several other methods which depend upon the timing and the extent of the correction required.

摘要翻译： 本发明是用于邮寄邮件和服务的邮寄，记帐和结算的方法。 该方法基于数​​据处理系统通过使用仪表连接装置与邮资计费器通信的能力。 此外，初始化数据处理系统内可以建立和/或更改客户账户的应用程序。 然后将客户帐户数据输入到应用程序中。 一旦客户帐户建立或验证，交易就会启动。 首先，将放置在邮件流中的邮件称重。 使用适当的比率表转换权重，以确定邮资计费器要邮寄的邮费数量。 邮资计费器邮寄邮资，系统记录邮资数量; 此外，系统计算适用于该客户帐户的任何折扣或附加费。 客户帐户都会将所计入的费用和实际支付的金额发放到客户帐户。 接下来，系统操作者确定服务或邮件产品是否包括在交易中，然后在服务或邮件产品的适当字段中输入值。 如果交易数据或值不正确，则可进行修改。 另外，可以通过依赖于所需校正的时间和程度的几种其它方法来校正账户。