Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price – Postage meter system
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-01
2006-08-01
Dixon, Thomas A. (Department: 3639)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
Postage meter system
Reexamination Certificate
active
07085745
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for sorting, prioritizing, identifying, managing, and otherwise controlling (collectively, “controlling”) a communication. A frank may be used to associate a value and a class with a communication. The communication may be associated with the frank through the method of selecting a frank associated with a value from among a plurality of frank types, each of the frank types having a pre-assigned value, associating the frank with the communication, and initiating transmission of the franked communication across a network. Value may include anything important of having meaning to the parties, including, for example, money, credit (or a promise to pay), frequent flier miles, and so forth. “Franking” a communication generally associates some indicia of value and/or a service class with a communication.
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Dixon Thomas A.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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