Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price – Postage meter system
Patent
1997-05-06
2000-05-16
Trammell, James P.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
Postage meter system
705 60, 705 61, 705 62, 705400, 705401, 705403, 705404, 705410, G06F 1760
Patent
active
060649925
ABSTRACT:
A postage meter includes a memory including an ascending credit register to store an accumulated value of credit and an ascending tote register to store an accumulated tote value of postage charge dispensed by the postage meter in franking mail items. Accounting means of the postage meter determines whether the sum of a required postage value to be applied to a mail item and the accumulated tote value is equal to or less than the accumulated total value of credit stored in the ascending credit register and, if the sum of the required postage value and the accumulated tote value is equal to or less than the accumulated credit value, operates printing means to print a franking impression on the mail item and increments the accumulated tote value stored in the tote register by an amount equal to the required postage value.
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Lee Chinor M.
Neopost Limited
Trammell James P.
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