EP1622091A3 - Mail processing terminal with monitoring of the mail content - Google Patents

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EP1622091A3
EP1622091A3 EP05291357A EP05291357A EP1622091A3 EP 1622091 A3 EP1622091 A3 EP 1622091A3 EP 05291357 A EP05291357 A EP 05291357A EP 05291357 A EP05291357 A EP 05291357A EP 1622091 A3 EP1622091 A3 EP 1622091A3
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Marek Krasuski
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Quadient Technologies France SA
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Neopost Technologies SA
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00435—Details specific to central, non-customer apparatus, e.g. servers at post office or vendor
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00435—Details specific to central, non-customer apparatus, e.g. servers at post office or vendor
    • G07B2017/00443—Verification of mailpieces, e.g. by checking databases
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00572—Details of printed item
    • G07B2017/0058—Printing of code

Abstract

Terminal de traitement de courrier (10) comprenant des moyens (26, 32) pour apposer sur un article de courrier d'une part une marque postale obtenue dans ce terminal à partir de données postales déterminées et d'autre part un numéro d'identification unique obtenu dans ce terminal, et un moyen de lecture numérique (30, 32) pour lire sur l'article de courrier d'une part l'adresse du destinataire et d'autre part un code séquentiel d'identification disposé à proximité de cette adresse du destinataire et pour convertir l'adresse du destinataire et le code séquentiel d'identification dans un format déterminé permettant un stockage dans une base de données de suivi dans laquelle sont également stockés les données postales et le numéro d'identification unique associés à l'article de courrier, des moyens étant en outre prévus pour communiquer à un serveur informatique distant, au travers d'un réseau de communication sécurisé, une partie déterminée de ladite base de données de suivi. Le numéro d'identification unique est avantageusement obtenu à partir d'une combinaison chiffrée du code séquentiel d'identification et des données postales.

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Mail processing terminal (10) comprising means (26, 32) for affixing to a mail piece on the one hand a postal mark obtained in this terminal from determined postal data and on the other hand an identification number unique in this terminal, and a digital reading means (30, 32) for reading on the mail piece on the one hand the address of the recipient and on the other hand a sequential identification code disposed in the vicinity of this recipient's address and to convert the recipient's address and the identification sequential code into a specific format allowing storage in a tracking database in which also the postal data and the unique identification number associated with the address are stored. mail article, means being further provided for communicating to a remote computer server, through a secure communication network, a determined part of said database of d follow-up. The unique identification number is advantageously obtained from an encrypted combination of the sequential identification code and postal data.
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EP05291357A 2004-07-28 2005-06-24 Mail processing terminal with monitoring of the mail content Expired - Fee Related EP1622091B1 (en)

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FR0408327A FR2873836B1 (en) 2004-07-28 2004-07-28 MAIL PROCESSING TERMINAL FOR MONITORING COURIER CONTENT

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EP1622091A2 EP1622091A2 (en) 2006-02-01
EP1622091A3 true EP1622091A3 (en) 2007-03-28
EP1622091B1 EP1622091B1 (en) 2012-08-08

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US6385504B1 (en) * 1994-10-04 2002-05-07 Pitney Bowes Inc. Mail processing system with unique mailpiece authorization assigned in advance of mailpieces entering carrier service mail processing stream
US6282525B1 (en) * 1996-05-02 2001-08-28 Francotyp-Postalia Ag & Co. Method and arrangement for data processing in a mail shipping system having a postage meter machine wherein a carrier-identifying mark is scanned and processed
US20040054552A1 (en) * 2000-12-14 2004-03-18 Amonette Thomas M. Apparatus and methods for processing mails using a manifest
WO2004029754A2 (en) * 2002-09-26 2004-04-08 Neopost S.A. Techniques for tracking mailpieces and accounting for postage payment
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FR2873836A1 (en) 2006-02-03

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