System for managing user-characterizing network protocol headers
    2.
    发明授权
    System for managing user-characterizing network protocol headers 有权
    用于管理用户表征网络协议头的系统

    公开(公告)号:US06237033B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-05-22

    申请号:US09231358

    申请日:1999-01-13

    IPC分类号: G06F1300

    摘要: A system for enabling a user of a computer attached to a computer network, and accessing sites on the network, to manage user-characterizing protocol headers on the user's computer. A particular application of the present invention is to manage so-called Internet cookies on a computer attached to the Internet and using a browser to access websites through the World Wide Web. Such cookies have a type and a value. The managing includes displaying to a user an interpretation of cookies that have been set on the user's computer; the interpretation is made by an interpreter referring to a local cookie dictionary, on the user's computer, having entries corresponding to different types of cookies. In various alternative embodiments, the managing also includes changing the values set by the websites, and fabricating cookies of types not necessarily used by a website in order to express to the website preferences a user wants the website to know. In some embodiments, the system also includes a means by which the fabricated cookies are made knowable to websites on the Internet, namely a universal cookie dictionary; and a site-specific cookie dictionary maintained by a third party so as to contain updated entries for interpreting cookies used by websites on the Internet. In one aspect of the invention, a user can periodically update the local cookie, using a local cookie dictionary, to include changes to the site-specific and universal cookie dictionaries.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于使连接到计算机网络的计算机的用户能够访问网络上的站点的系统来管理用户计算机上的用户表征协议头部。 本发明的具体应用是在连接到因特网的计算机上管理所谓的因特网cookie,并使用浏览器通过万维网访问网站。 这样的cookie有一个类型和一个值。 管理包括向用户显示已经在用户计算机上设置的Cookie的解释; 解释是由解释器引用本地cookie字典,在用户的计算机上,具有对应于不同类型的cookie的条目。 在各种替代实施例中,管理还包括改变网站设置的值,以及制作网站不一定使用的类型的cookie,以便表达用户希望网站知道的网站偏好。 在一些实施例中,该系统还包括一种装置,通过该装置将制造的饼干知道为因特网上的网站,即通用饼干字典; 以及由第三方维护的特定于站点的Cookie字典,以便包含用于解释因特网上的网站使用的cookie的更新条目。 在本发明的一个方面,用户可以使用本地cookie字典来周期性地更新本地cookie,以包括对站点特定的和通用的cookie字典的改变。

    Method of providing personal messaging using a virtual messaging assistant
    5.
    发明授权
    Method of providing personal messaging using a virtual messaging assistant 失效
    使用虚拟消息传递助理提供个人消息的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06650739B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-11-18

    申请号:US09221550

    申请日:1998-12-28

    IPC分类号: H04M164

    摘要: This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing automated personal messaging assistance with the capability of checking a user's destination for arrival and forwarding messages by a preferred modality. The present invention is directed to, in a general aspect, a method of providing personal messaging using a virtual messaging assistant. The virtual messaging assistant has a voice user interface and provides a human-like voice which interfaces with the user' and with callers. The personal messaging assistant provides forwarding of messages to a destination in accordance with user selected preferences. The personal messaging assistant receives incoming messages. The personal messaging checks the user's calendar to find out where the user is expected to be. Then the personal messaging assistant calls the expected destination and inquires whether the user has arrived. If the user has arrived, the personal messaging assistant forwards messages by a preferred mode, such as, for example, via facsimile, to the destination. The personal messaging assistant handles important confidential messages by making sure that the user is at the destination prior to forwarding those messages. Thus, the user is provided with a service was previously unavailable in a continuous manner.

    摘要翻译: 本发明克服了现有技术的缺点,即通过提供具有检查用户目的地的自动化个人消息传递援助的能力,并通过优选方式转发消息。 本发明在一般方面涉及使用虚拟消息传递助理提供个人消息的方法。 虚拟消息传递助理具有语音用户界面,并提供与用户和呼叫者接口的类似人声的语音。 个人消息传递助理根据用户选择的偏好提供消息到目的地的转发。 个人消息传递助理接收传入的消息。 个人消息检查用户的日历以了解用户预期的位置。 然后,个人消息传递助理呼叫预期目的地并询问用户是否到达。 如果用户已经到达,则个人消息传递助理将优先模式(例如通过传真)将消息转发到目的地。 通过确保用户在转发这些消息之前在目的地处理重要的机密消息,个人消息传递助理处理。 因此,向用户提供以前不可用的服务。

    Device and method for enabling a conventional printer to print on an
edge of an envelope
    6.
    发明授权
    Device and method for enabling a conventional printer to print on an edge of an envelope 失效
    用于使常规打印机能够在信封的边缘上打印的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US6062752A

    公开(公告)日:2000-05-16

    申请号:US236420

    申请日:1999-01-25

    IPC分类号: B41J11/00 B41J13/12 B41J13/24

    CPC分类号: B41J13/12 B41J11/005

    摘要: A carrier for holding a conventional envelope in a predetermined position to enable printing near an edge of the envelope with a conventional printer is disclosed. The carrier includes a sheet-like substrate having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a closure flap receiving slot between the leading and trailing edges, and means for holding at least a portion of a bottom edge of the envelope to the substrate. A method according to the present invention includes the steps of providing an envelope, providing a carrier for holding the envelope in a predetermined position, and providing a conventional printer. A closure flap of the envelope is inserted through a closure flap receiving slot in the carrier. Next, a bottom edge of the envelope is held against the carrier. Then, the carrier and the envelope are passed through the conventional printer, which prints on the envelope.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于将传统封套保持在预定位置以使得能够利用传统打印机在封套的边缘附近打印的载体。 载体包括具有前缘,后缘,在前缘和后缘之间的封闭瓣接收槽的片状衬底,以及用于将外壳的底部边缘的至少一部分保持在衬底上的装置。 根据本发明的方法包括以下步骤:提供信封,提供用于将信封保持在预定位置的载体,以及提供常规打印机。 信封的闭合片通过载体中的封闭翼片接收槽插入。 接下来,将信封的底部边缘固定在托架上。 然后,托架和信封通过常规打印机,打印在信封上。

    Dual metering method for indicating the contents of mail
    8.
    发明授权
    Dual metering method for indicating the contents of mail 失效
    用于指示邮件内容的双重计量方式

    公开(公告)号:US07949540B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-05-24

    申请号:US10755691

    申请日:2004-01-12

    申请人: Ronald P. Sansone

    发明人: Ronald P. Sansone

    IPC分类号: G06Q10/00

    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.

    摘要翻译: 一种使USPS能够了解邮件内容的方法,以及支付邮寄费用的邮政汇票许可的一方的身份。 前述内容是通过将包含唯一标识邮件的信息的邮件的邮寄标签放置在电子邮件和许可证持有人的信息之外来实现的,此外还包括在标识邮件内容的邮件和信息中包含射频识别标签 唯一标识邮件。 通过了解邮件的身份和邮件的内容,将获得额外的安全性。 无线电频率标签可以被远程读取,使得USPS能够识别允许不同内容邮件被不同地处理的邮件的内容。

    Integrated payment for international business reply mail
    10.
    发明授权
    Integrated payment for international business reply mail 有权
    综合支付国际业务回复邮件

    公开(公告)号:US07389274B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-06-17

    申请号:US10674133

    申请日:2003-09-29

    IPC分类号: H04L29/00 G07B17/00

    摘要: The invention makes it easier for the post office to calculate accurately terminal dues for business reply mail by providing information to the post regarding each piece of business reply mail that crosses an international border. The foregoing is accomplished by charging a sender's meter for business reply mail that is being deposited with a first carrier; transmitting the funds charged to the meter to a meter data center; transmitting from the meter data center to a first carrier meter payment center the funds attributable to the first and second carriers; and transmitting from the first meter payment data center to the second meter payment data center the funds attributable to the second carrier.

    摘要翻译: 本发明通过向跨越国际边界的每个商务回复邮件的职位提供信息,使得邮局更容易准确地计算商业回复邮件的终端费。 上述内容是通过向发送方的计费器收取正在存入第一运营商的业务回复邮件来完成的; 向电表数据中心传送收费给仪表的资金; 从电表数据中心向第一运营商支付中心发送归属于第一和第二运营商的资金; 以及从第一计费器支付数据中心向第二计费器支付数据中心发送归属于第二运营商的资金。