Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price – Postage meter system
Patent
1996-12-24
1999-06-29
Cosimano, Edward R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
Postage meter system
235375, 36447903, 36447905, 705 8, 705401, G07B 1700
Patent
active
059182202
ABSTRACT:
The invention is a method for selecting, producing, and delivering a finished mail piece. The method includes the step of selecting, at an initiating node, a set of parameters which together comprise a mail piece to be produced at a remote location. The selection is made from a series of menus within a program resident within a data processing system. Among the parameters which can be selected or determined are the destination address, type of delivery service to be used, and a choice of the media stock upon which a selected text can be printed. Additionally, a choice of language for the text can be made, and an account number for debiting the cost of the transaction may be entered. The selected parameters are transmitted to a data center which reads the destination address and then determines the most appropriate destination node. It is possible for the data center to be co-located with the initiating node or, to be the destination node. The data center, which maintains all data with respect to a particular transaction, will transmit the selected parameters to the destination node. Upon receipt of the data, the destination node prints the selected text upon a media which is inserted into an envelope with the destination address printed upon the envelope. The envelope is then franked in proper local currency and delivered to a local postal stream for final delivery to the destination address.
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Levitsky Paul A.
Sansone Ronald P.
Cosimano Edward R.
Malandra, Jr. Charles
Pitchenik David
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scolnick Melvin
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