EP0986029A1 - Procédé de contrôle des consommations de machines à affranchir - Google Patents
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- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
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- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
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- the present invention relates to the field of treatment of mail and more particularly it relates to a process for controlling consumption of franking machines.
- connection to a server does not allow the user to have a global or even local overview of the management of its fleet and in particular it is not possible for him to know, at a given instant, the state indexes of the different machines without reading these at the level of each machine as the state of the corresponding statistics.
- external connection to a remote server is only possible with machines electronic postage meter. Out, it exists today on the only French territory over 100,000 electromechanical franking machines which do not have this possibility of connection to a remote computer server.
- the essential object of the present invention is a method of control of the consumption of franking machines in particular suitable for managing a diverse fleet of machines and which does not require direct link with a computer server.
- An object of the invention is to propose a process for controlling the consumption of a fleet of machines franking that is both flexible and easy to use while allowing consistent management for the user client.
- Another object of the invention is secure the exchange of information with postal administration.
- Yet another object of the invention is to allow to the Postal Administration more precise monitoring and control of operations postage made by the user client.
- a consumption control process a plurality of franking machines through a public network of communication, at least one franking machine not being connected to this network, characterized in that first of all, by means of at least one terminal independent supervision of the at least one postage meter autonomous.
- the communication protocol used to establish a connection with the remote server is either a Videotex protocol, for example the teletel protocol, ie a TCP / IP type protocol.
- the data exchange step includes a data entry step the user of an identifier including at least one password or personal identification number and a display step, at the supervision, on the one hand, of a list of printheads associated with said plurality of user franking machines, and on the other hand, for each print head, a last billing index validated by the server.
- the postage authorization code contains information relating to a maximum amount of credit or consumption and a postage period authorized. It is further obtained by calculation notably from said current billing index and / or the serial number of a printhead, which provides control easy and automatic index entered by the user, making unnecessary the travel of a representative of the postal administration to the site control.
- FIG. 1 An example of configuration of a fleet of postage meters of a user is shown in figure 1.
- This park is located for example on two different production sites.
- a first site S1 is available a single electronic franking machine 10 connected by a modem 12 to a public communications network, for example the network dial-up telephone or digital network (PSTN / ISDN 40).
- PSTN / ISDN 40 the network dial-up telephone or digital network
- a second S2 site separate from the first, five machines are available postage, three electronic type and two traditional machines electromechanical.
- the electronic machines 20, 22, 24 are for example connected to an internal network 26 which has common access to the network public 40 by a modem 28 while the two traditional machines 30, 32, on the contrary, are isolated from this network and operate autonomous.
- the user's different franking machines are under the monitoring of a computer server responsible for managing the fleet of franking machines and located remotely from these production sites in the premises A of the Postal Administration or at the dealer of machines.
- This server 50 is conventionally connected by a means of communication to a network (of the PSTN / ISDN / X25 type), for example by a modem 52 to the public network 40.
- At least one supervision terminal 60 is provided. connected to the public network by a modem 62 (which is preferably integrated into the terminal) and providing the user with input and visualization of information necessary for the management of its fleet of to set free.
- This terminal is advantageously located on a site of production near traditional machines without connection to public network. Of course, several terminals having access to the same information can be arranged on the same site or on sites different according to user needs.
- the terminal is connected with the server by means of a videotex protocol (for example the protocol known as “Teletel”) or a so-called TCP / IP protocol through an Internet browser using a specific process which will now be explained with reference to FIG. 2 and which shows the different stages of connecting terminal 60 to the fleet user franking machines with server 50 of the Postal Administration (or dealer of these machines).
- a home page appears on the terminal screen.
- the user is prompted to enter their terminal identifier on the terminal keyboard, which may consist of a customer name and password or personal identification number (PINE). If these references are correct, the server displays at the terminal, in a next step 110, the complete list of printheads (electronic and traditional) in possession of the user (on all of these sites or possibly on a given site if the user made the request) with for each of them at the same time the last index of billing previously validated by the server and the current index (entry previous) with its corresponding entry date.
- PINE personal identification number
- Step 110 can also optionally include a display step at the terminal supervision, a selectable plurality of tables and / or statistical graphical representations related to this top list printing.
- a step 120 the user selects a first head of traditional printing which he wishes to update the index and enters the terminal keyboard the new current index.
- the server checks that this index is greater than the last validated index, i.e. the last index taken into account account to establish invoicing by the postal administration (failing this a error message is issued) and then displays, in a new step 130, the new current index with its modification date and time as well as a first postage authorization number associated with the head selected printout.
- This authorization number is obtained conventionally by a calculation from data known as by example, without this data being limiting, the serial number of the print head and the current billing index.
- the number postage authorization can still be obtained by calculation from in particular from the current date and / or from information in particular relating to a maximum amount of credit or consumption authorized and / or to an authorized postage period.
- the user can then, in a step 140, renew the previous operations for a second selected print head, the server sending a second postage authorization code for this second head in a final step 150.
- the exchange is complete and the user can then stop the liaison.
- the different postage authorization codes can then be entered manually by the user at the level of the franking provided with the corresponding printing heads.
- the connection with the server does not have to be daily but only according to a periodicity defined in prior with the Postal administration.
- a service contract between the administration (or the franking machines) and the user on the management of his fleet at means of supervision terminals it is attached to this user both a predetermined financial limit (for example between 1,000 and 50,000 Frs) variable according to its foreseeable or possibly known solvency or his seriousness for example in the payment of his previous invoices and a time limit (selected for example from the periods following: fifteen days, one month, three months and six months) variable in depending in particular on the total postage envisaged and at the end of which the user must have connected to the server at least once.
- a predetermined financial limit for example between 1,000 and 50,000 Frs
- a time limit selected for example from the periods following: fifteen days, one month, three months and six months
- the postage authorization code which they may constitute by example the last three characters (two characters can correspond at the maximum authorized postage amount, from 1 to 99, one character being associated with the authorized postage period) and thus be in able to be communicated to the postage meter.
- FIG. 3 The structure of the franking machine allowing the implementation of the process according to the invention is illustrated in FIG. 3. It also comprises conventional devices, not shown, relating to entry, transport and positioning of mail items for printing the postal imprint, a print head 70 responsible for ensuring this printing under the control of a central processing unit 72 conventionally comprising means for memorizing programs and of data.
- a non-volatile memory 74 is further provided for receiving postal data and in particular the content of the bottom-up counters and descendant which are preferably stored according to data from dates (and times) provided by a 76 calendar clock.
- An interface user 78 provided with a keyboard and a display, for example with crystals liquids, is also available at the franking machine for allow the entry of various data necessary for postage (by example nature of the carrier or category of shipment and possibly weight of the mail item in the absence of automatic weighing) and display of multiple information for the user (verification of entered for example) and in particular the billing index.
- each franking machine there is added to each franking machine a specific module 80, which can be software and then integrated into memory of processing unit programs, intended to calculate the code postage authorization according to a calculation process similar to the one followed by the server and blocking the franking machine when, on the one hand, this calculated code is different from that provided by the server and then communicated manually by the user to the machine to frank (through its user interface) and, on the other hand, when the user has not respected certain operating conditions imposed by the Postal Administration and in particular when it has exceeded authorizations granted by this administration as to the amount or the authorized postage period (note that the period control can be provided very simply using the clock-calendar).
- a specific module 80 which can be software and then integrated into memory of processing unit programs, intended to calculate the code postage authorization according to a calculation process similar to the one followed by the server and blocking the franking machine when, on the one hand, this calculated code is different from that provided by the server and then communicated manually by the user to the machine to frank (through its user
- the fleet of franking machines includes only machines connected to the network, entering the identifier including at least one word of password or personal identification number will appear on the screen display of the supervision terminal used, a menu allowing the user, to enter new billing indexes relating to all of these machines, or consult the status of all machines in the fleet with the last respective index validated by the server as the state of the various configurable statistical data defining this park, locally or global, in the form of tables and graphical representations in particular.
- the invention thus covers a method of controlling consumption a plurality of franking machines through a public network of communication, in which first of all, by means of at least one terminal independent supervision of this plurality of machines, through the public network, a link with a management server according to a communication protocol determined and then we proceed to an exchange data between the terminal and the server during which the user enters at the supervision terminal, an identifier including at least one password pass or personal identification number, and receives in return the possibility to choose in a display menu of said terminal, the entry of new index or display of the latest indexes validated by the server as statistical data relating to said plurality of postage meters.
- a variant of the method according to the invention consists in connecting to the server via a telephone with integrated display and a Text-to-speech telephone communication line.
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- la figure 1 illustre un exemple de configuration d'un parc de machines à affranchir,
- la figure 2 explicite le procédé selon l'invention régissant les échanges entre un terminal et un serveur distant, et
- la figure 3 montre une machine à affranchir permettant la mise en oeuvre du procédé de la figure 2.
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- Procédé de contrôle des consommations d'une pluralité de machines à affranchir au travers d'un réseau public de communication (40), au moins une machine à affranchir (30, 32) étant non reliée à ce réseau, caractérisé en ce que tout d'abord, au moyen d'au moins un terminal de supervision (60) indépendant de la au moins une machine à affranchir autonome, on établit au travers du réseau public une liaison avec un serveur de gestion (50) selon un protocole de communication déterminé, et ensuite on procède à un échange de données entre le terminal et le serveur au cours duquel l'utilisateur saisit au terminal de supervision un index courant de facturation relatif à la au moins une machine à affranchir autonome et reçoit en retour un code d'autorisation d'affranchissement pour valider les affranchissements ultérieurs de la au moins une machine à affranchir autonome.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit protocole de communication utilisé pour établir une liaison avec le serveur distant est un protocole Vidéotex, tel que le protocole télétel.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit protocole de communication utilisé pour établir une liaison avec le serveur distant est un protocole de type TCP/IP.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ladite étape d'échange de données comporte une étape de saisie par l'utilisateur d'un identificateur incluant au moins un mot de passe ou numéro d'identification personnel.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ladite étape d'échange de données comporte une étape d'affichage, au terminal de supervision, d'une part d'une liste des têtes d'impression associées à ladite pluralité de machines à affranchir de l'utilisateur, et d'autre part, pour chaque tête d'impression, d'un dernier index de facturation validé par le serveur.
- Procédé selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que ladite étape d'échange de données comporte une étape d'affichage, au terminal de supervision, d'une pluralité sélectionnable de tableaux et/ou de représentations graphiques statistiques se rapportant à cette liste de tête d'impression.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit code d'autorisation d'affranchissement comporte des informations relatives à un montant maximal de crédit ou de consommation et une période d'affranchissement autorisés.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit code d'autorisation d'affranchissement est obtenu par calcul à partir notamment dudit index de facturation courant et/ou du numéro de série d'une tête d'impression.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit code d'autorisation d'affranchissement est obtenu par calcul à partir notamment de la date courante.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit code d'autorisation d'affranchissement est obtenu par calcul à partir notamment des informations relatives à un montant maximal de crédit ou de consommation autorisé et/ou à une période d'affranchissement autorisée.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit protocole de communication utilisé pour établir une liaison avec le serveur distant est un protocole de communication téléphonique du type à synthèse vocale.
- Procédé de contrôle des consommations d'une pluralité de machines à affranchir au travers d'un réseau public de communication (40), caractérisé en ce que tout d'abord, au moyen d'au moins un terminal de supervision (60) indépendant de cette pluralité de machines, on établit au travers du réseau public, une liaison avec un serveur de gestion (50) selon un protocole de communication déterminé et ensuite on procède à un échange de données entre le terminal et le serveur au cours duquel l'utilisateur saisit au terminal de supervision, un identificateur incluant au moins un mot de passe ou numéro d'identification personnel, et reçoit en retour la possibilité de choisir dans un menu d'affichage dudit terminal, la saisie de nouveaux index ou l'affichage des derniers index valides par le serveur comme des données statistiques se rapportant à ladite pluralité de machine à affranchir.
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