Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Business processing using cryptography – Postage metering system
Reexamination Certificate
2005-10-18
2005-10-18
Trammell, James P. (Department: 3621)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Business processing using cryptography
Postage metering system
C705S401000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06957196
ABSTRACT:
FIG.6shows the operation of modules22in processing a request for a digital postal indicium. At72the selected one of modules22receives the indicium request and the requested meter record and, at76confirms that sufficient funds are available. If not the request is rejected at78; again in a manner whose details form no part of the subject invention. At80the selected module constructs an indicium message having an appended indicium signature, which when printed in relevant part on a mailpiece will evidence payment of postage in the amount shown, and at84updates the requested meter record and appends a meter record signature. Generation of indicia and updating meter records is more fully described in specifications for the Information Based Indicia Program (IBIP) published by the United States Postal Service and further discussion is not believed necessary for an understanding of the subject invention.) At86the selected module updates the audit data. (Updating the postage and transaction data is a matter of simple addition. Updating of the error correcting code will be described further below.) At88the updated audit data is stored in nonvolatile memory24, and at90the signed indicium message and signed meter record are sent to server14for processing as described above. The audit data and the indicium are transmitted to the server at the same time. The indicium is forwarded to customer12and a copy of the audit data is stored in server14. While perhaps less secure than data stored in modules22, audit data stored in server14can be verified against that in modules22and can be used, for example, when a module is off-line.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5367464 (1994-11-01), Abumehdi et al.
patent: 5742683 (1998-04-01), Lee et al.
patent: 5778076 (1998-07-01), Kara et al.
patent: 5805711 (1998-09-01), Windel et al.
patent: 6061668 (2000-05-01), Sharrow
patent: 6076072 (2000-06-01), Libman
patent: 0 854 446 (1998-07-01), None
Vanasco, Rocco R, “Fraud Auditing”, Managerial Auditing Journal v13n1, pp 4-71, 1998, ISSN: 0268-6902.
Cordery Robert A.
Heiden Richard W.
Pierce Perry A.
Strobel Kevin L.
Chaclas Angelo N.
Macdonald George M.
Malandra Charles R.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
LandOfFree
Method for auditing a database and system for carrying out... does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Method for auditing a database and system for carrying out..., we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Method for auditing a database and system for carrying out... will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-3474283