Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price – Postage meter system
Patent
1996-12-31
1998-10-20
Cosimano, Edward R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
Postage meter system
705410, G07B 1702, G06F 1760, G06F15700
Patent
active
058262466
ABSTRACT:
A postage metering capability is integrated in an automated teller machine. With minimal modification and using several components of the ATM to perform functions useful in dispensing of postage, the secured environment of an ATM is used to implement numerous postage metering functions. When used with a smart card, postage value is accounted for without reference to an internal vault of the apparatus or to a postal facility, by using a vault of the smart card. The smart card may be used to dispense postage by accessing a customer's postage account at a remote center to set into the internal vault a value to be dispensed, with communication secured in accordance with information provided by the smart card. Using such information, the customer's postage account may also be accessed to recharge the vault of the smart card, rather than the internal vault. Additionally, postage may be dispensed in accordance with value inputted directly by a customer, using cash, credit-, debit-, or money-cards. The internal vault of the postage meter is used when accounting for postage dispensed in accordance with such directly inputted value.
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Bator Feliks
Berson William
Campo John L.
Lawton Kathryn V.
Obrea Andrei
Cosimano Edward R.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scolnick Melvin J.
Shapiro Steven J.
Vitale Alberta A.
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