System and method for managing postage funds for use by multiple postage meters
    1.
    发明申请
    System and method for managing postage funds for use by multiple postage meters 审中-公开
    用于管理邮资用于多个邮资计费表的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20070050314A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-03-01

    申请号:US11216557

    申请日:2005-08-31

    IPC分类号: G06F17/00

    摘要: A system for managing postage funds that includes a data center computer system for authorizing and accounting for postage fund downloads for one or more customers, a customer funds repository in electronic communication with the data center computer system, and a plurality of postage meters located at a customer site remote from the data center computer system. The postage meters may selectively request and receive or return postage funds that have been previously downloaded to the customer funds repository from the data center computer system. Also, a method of securely transferring a first amount of postage funds from a first postage meter to a second postage meter in a side load transaction.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于管理邮资基金的系统,包括用于授权和计算一个或多个客户的邮资资金下载的数据中心计算机系统,与数据中心计算机系统进行电子通信的客户资金库,以及位于 客户站点远离数据中心计算机系统。 邮资计费器可以选择性地从数据中心计算机系统请求并接收或返回先前已经下载到客户资金储存库的邮资。 而且,一种在侧面负载交易中将第一数量的邮资从第一邮资计费器转移到第二邮资计费器的方法。

    Trackless gantry press system
    4.
    发明授权
    Trackless gantry press system 有权
    无轨门架系统

    公开(公告)号:US6079325A

    公开(公告)日:2000-06-27

    申请号:US160480

    申请日:1998-09-25

    IPC分类号: B27F7/15 B30B3/02 B23P19/04

    摘要: Trackless gantry press apparatus includes, in one embodiment, a plurality of truss setup tables configured to form a row of spaced truss setup tables. Each table includes wheel guides coupled at opposing ends and extending the width of the table. The guides are configured to be in substantial alignment with the guides coupled to adjacent tables. The apparatus also includes a press assembly for pressing nailing plates into truss members. The press assembly includes a substantially cylindrically shaped roller movably coupled to a substantially inverted U-shaped frame. The press assembly also includes at least four support wheels and at least four reaction pressure wheels coupled to each opposite end of the frame and configured so that at least three support wheels on each end of the press assembly are in contact with the wheel guides at all times as the press assembly traverses the spaces between the spaced setup tables. Additionally, a motor is operatively coupled to the roller and the drive wheels and configured so that the roller and the drive wheels rotate at the same speed.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,无轨架式压力装置包括构造成形成一排间隔的桁架设置台的多个桁架安装台。 每个桌子包括连接在相对端部并延伸桌子宽度的轮子导轨。 引导件被配置成与连接到相邻台的引导件大致对准。 该设备还包括用于将钉板压入桁架构件的压力机组件。 压力机组件包括可移动地联接到基本上倒置的U形框架的基本上圆柱形的辊。 压力机组件还包括至少四个支撑轮和至少四个反作用力轮,其联接到框架的每个相对端,并且构造成使得压力机组件的每个端部上的至少三个支撑轮全部与轮导向件接触 压力组件穿过间隔开的设置表之间的空间。 此外,电动机可操作地联接到辊和驱动轮并且被构造成使得辊和驱动轮以相同的速度旋转。

    Method For Mail Address Block Image Information Encoding, Protection And Recovery In Postal Payment Applications
    7.
    发明申请
    Method For Mail Address Block Image Information Encoding, Protection And Recovery In Postal Payment Applications 有权
    邮件地址块图像信息编码方法,邮政支付应用中的保护和恢复

    公开(公告)号:US20070288760A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-12-13

    申请号:US10582741

    申请日:2004-12-15

    摘要: The present invention uses an element of digital data that is created during digital postage mark (DPM) generation process from the digital image of the destination address block. The digital data is included into recoverable portion of the digital signature and imprinted on a mailpiece. During DPM verification, a representative portion of a destination address block image is retrieved in its original form from the digital signature itself. The retrieved portion of the image then can be compared with the similar digital data obtained from the scanned destination address block obtained during normal mail scanning and processing activities. If the comparison is under a predetermined threshold, then the DPM is declared authentic and the mailpiece can be processed and delivered with confidence. If, on the other hand, the threshold is not met, the DPM is declared a copy or a counterfeit of another DPM and the mailpiece can be subjected to further investigation.

    摘要翻译: 本发明使用从目的地址块的数字图像在数字邮戳(DPM)生成处理过程中创建的数字数据的元素。 数字数据被包括在数字签名的可恢复部分中并印在邮件上。 在DPM验证期间,从数字签名本身以原始形式检索目的地址块图像的代表部分。 然后可以将检索到的图像的部分与在正常邮件扫描和处理活动期间获得的扫描的目的地址块获得的类似数字数据进行比较。 如果比较低于预定阈值,那么DPM被声明为可信的,并且可以自信地处理和传送邮件。 另一方面,如果不符合门槛,则DPM被宣布为另一个DPM的副本或伪造,邮件可以进行进一步的调查。

    Method and system for processing batches of mail to increase efficiency of the mailstream
    8.
    发明申请
    Method and system for processing batches of mail to increase efficiency of the mailstream 审中-公开
    处理邮件批量的方法和系统,以提高邮件流的效率

    公开(公告)号:US20070260561A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-11-08

    申请号:US11416668

    申请日:2006-05-03

    IPC分类号: G06F17/00

    摘要: A mail processing system and method for reducing delivery expenses is provided. When a mailer prepares a batch of mail pieces, the mailer will print on each mail piece information associated with each mail piece. The mailer provides the batch of mail pieces to a mail processing facility. The mail processing facility can then combine batches of mail received from different mailers together to form a single aggregation. The mail processing facility reads the information associated with each mail piece and sorts the aggregation into a plurality of batches based on the information read from each mail piece. A carrier can then be selected, from among a plurality of different carriers, for each of the plurality of batches that preferably provides the desired delivery services at the lowest cost for delivery.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于减少运输费用的邮件处理系统和方法。 当邮寄员准备一批邮件时,邮件将打印每个邮件与每个邮件相关联的信息。 邮寄者将一批邮件提供给邮件处理设施。 然后,邮件处理设施可以将从不同邮寄者接收的邮件合并在一起以形成单个聚合。 邮件处理设备读取与每个邮件相关联的信息,并且基于从每个邮件读取的信息将聚合排序成多个批次。 然后可以从多个不同的载体中选择一个载体,用于多个批次中的每个批次,优选地以最低的成本提供期望的递送服务。