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AssigneeAuctane, LLC
InventorsKenneth Thomas McBride, John Roland Clem
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Systems and methods which provide postage indicia using mobile communication handsets are shown. According to embodiments, users are enabled to introduce mail pieces into a mail delivery stream which are accepted as having acceptable postage indicia having value associated therewith without the use of traditional metering systems or processor-based postage generation and printing systems. Instead, a mobile communication handset is used to obtain tokens to be used as postage indicia. The tokens may be transmitted to or otherwise printed by appropriate, available printing equipment, such as facsimile machines, network printers, network photo copiers, etc., in response to a request by a mobile communication handset for postage indicia. The foregoing tokens may be printed upon various stock for inclusion with or as a mail piece. The mail piece bearing the token may be placed into the mail stream for processing and delivery using the token as activated as postage indicia.
A system for facilitating on-demand mobile device postage printing and user access to printed postage indicium despite the mobile device's lack of direct communication with a suitable postage printer, the system comprising:
A method for facilitating on-demand mobile device postage printing and user access to printed postage indicium despite the mobile device's lack of direct communication with a suitable postage printer, the method being implemented by a server-side computer system comprising one or more processors executing computer program instructions that, when executed, perform the method, the method comprising:
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