System for preparing mail items
AssigneeNeopost Industrie
InventorPascal Charroppin
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system for preparing mail items comprising both postal indicia and a service marking representative of a service associated with this mail item and previously requested by a user, this system comprising first standard print means connected to a computer terminal of the user itself linked, through an Internet network, to a server housing the website of a third party in charge of preparing the mail items, in order to print both the postal coordinates of the addressee and the service marking. Second secured print means constituted by a franking machine are further provided to print the postal indicia.
Claims27
System for preparing mail items comprising both postal indicia constituting a monetary value and a service marking representative of a service associated with this mail item and previously requested by a user of this system, wherein it comprises first standard print means for printing the service marking and second secured print means for printing the postal indicia.
Process for preparing mail items comprising both postal indicia constituting a monetary value and a service marking representative of a service associated with this mail item and previously requested by a user, wherein the service marking is printed independently of the postal indicia.
The process for preparing mail items comprising both postal indicia constituting a monetary value and a service marking representative of a service associated with a determined mail item, wherein said process comprises the following steps:
- a) establishment of a link with the Internet network from a computer terminal of a user,
- b) access to a server housing the website of an identified third party in charge of preparing the mail items,
- c) consultation at the user's computer terminal of a general presentation page of said website of the identified third party relative to said service,
- d) upon first access to said service, supply by said server of the identified third party of a user name and a password in exchange for the communication by the user of determined information,
- e) during subsequent accesses to said service, entry in the user's computer terminal of the user name and password received upon said first access,
- f) display at the user's computer terminal of a personal presentation page relative to said service and specific to the user,
- g) selection at the user's computer terminal of a postal product proposed on said personal presentation page from those of the group including the traceable letter, the traceable registered letter and traceable registered letter with return receipt,
- h) display at the user's computer terminal of an entry screen relative to the postal product selected,
- i) entry at the user's computer terminal of determined information necessary for dispatching a mail item,
- j) attribution by the server of the identified third party of a unique sequential number associated with the mail item to be dispatched, and
- k) printing, by a standard printer linked to said computer terminal, of the service marking incorporating said unique sequential number and an identifier of the postal product selected.
System for preparing mail items comprising both a postal mark constituting a monetary value and a service marking representative of a service associated with this mail item and previously requested by a user of this system, wherein it comprises first standard printing means connected to a computer terminal of a user itself linked, through an Internet network, to a server housing the website of a third party in charge of preparing the mail items, in order to print both the postal coordinates of the addressee and the service marking.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.