Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price – Postage meter system
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-15
2008-04-15
Cuff, Michael (Department: 3627)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
Postage meter system
C705S028000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07359887
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods providing a digital scale interface in a global communications shipping management environment so that a shipping management system resident on a server computer device remote from a user client computer device, receives and recognizes a weight of a parcel from the digital scale configured with the remote user client computer device.
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