Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price – Postage meter system
Patent
1997-09-05
2000-05-16
Cosimano, Edward R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
Postage meter system
382101, 705401, 705408, 707104, G07B 1700
Patent
active
06064995&
ABSTRACT:
A system that tracks when normal digital postage meter mail or digital processor mail is received by an addressee. The foregoing is accomplished by connecting a scanner and control software to a digital postage meter or digital processor that would read incoming digitally metered mail. Instead of printing an indicia, the scanner would read the already existing indicia and other information on the mail piece and then extract the sender data fields that are contained in the indicia or on the mail piece. The extracted mail data would be periodically uploaded to a data center. The data center would compare the extracted data with mail sender data that has previously been uploaded from sending meters and processors to determine if fraud has been committed in the production of the postal indicia.
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McFiggans Robert B.
Sansone Ronald P.
Cosimano Edward R.
Melton Michael
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Reichman Ronald
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