Method for re-keying postage metering devices
AssigneePitney Bowes Inc., 1
InventorRobert A. Cordery
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Abstract
A method for communicating a re-keying message from a postage meter to a registration authority includes the steps of determining at the postage meter that a current key needs to be replaced with a new key; generating in the postage meter the new key; creating in the postage meter the re-keying message, the re-keying message including at least a device identifier and the new key; using the postage meter for printing the re-keying message in a machine-readable form on a recording medium; and mailing the recording medium to the registration authority.
Claims20
A method for communicating from a postage meter to a registration authority a re-keying message, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining at the postage meter that a current key needs to be replaced with a new key;
- generating in the postage meter the new key;
- creating in the postage meter the re-keying message, the re-keying message including at least a device identifier and the new key;
- using the postage meter for printing the re-keying message in a machine-readable form on a recording medium;
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- mailing the recording medium to the registration authority.
A method for communicating from a device to a registration authority a re-keying message, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining at the device that a current key needs to be replaced with a new key;
- generating in the device the new key;
- creating the re-keying message, the re-keying message including at least a device identifier and the new key;
- printing the re-keying message in a machine-readable form on a mailpiece to form a re-keying mailpiece;
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- submitting the re-keying mailpiece to a carrier for delivery to the registration authority.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.