Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price – Postage meter system
Reexamination Certificate
2005-01-04
2005-01-04
Cosimano, Edward R. (Department: 3629)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
Postage meter system
C283S071000, C283S116000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06839695
ABSTRACT:
A postage meter system includes a postage meter and a data center. The postage meter is registered to a specific customer at a designated location for printing a postal indicium on a mail piece. The data center is remotely located from the postage meter and includes a locator application and a customer account file corresponding to the postage meter. The customer account file includes specific customer identification data and designated location data. The postage meter enters selective operative communication with the data center via the internet for establishing a transaction session. During the transaction session, the data center: (i) employs the locator application to send homing signals back and forth between the postage meter and the data center along different routes through the internet and uses a communication parameter associated with the homing signals triangulate an actual location of the postage meter; (ii) compares the actual location with the designated location; and (iii) initiates updates to the postage meter system if the actual location and the designated location do not correspond.
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Chaclas Angelo N.
Cosimano Edward R.
Macdonald George M.
Malandra Charles R.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
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