Automated handling of computer-based postage system printing errors
AssigneeStamps.com Inc.
InventorsCraig Ogg, Akbar Thobhani
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Abstract
The exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method for handling printing errors in a computer-based postage system, the method comprising: assigning an identifier to a particular mail piece wherein said identifier uniquely identifies the particular mail piece during a particular period of time and wherein said unique mail piece identifier is related to a particular mailer; generating for printing a representation of a postage indicium for the particular mail piece and a representation of the unique mail piece identifier; and recognizing an indication that an error occurred in a printing of at least one of the postage indicium or the representation of the unique mail piece identifier.
Claims16
A method for handling printing errors in a computer-based postage system, said method comprising:
- assigning an identifier to a particular mail piece wherein said identifier uniquely identifies the particular mail piece during a particular period of time and wherein said unique mail piece identifier is related to a particular mailer;
- generating for printing a representation of a postage indicium for the particular mail piece and a representation of the unique mail piece identifier;
- and
- recognizing an indication that an error occurred in a printing of at least one of the postage indicium or the representation of the unique mail piece identifier.
A method for handling printing errors in a computer-based postage system, said method comprising:
- assigning an identifier to a particular mail piece, wherein said identifier uniquely identifies the particular mail piece during a particular period of time, and wherein said identifier comprises a subscriber identifier, a mailing identifier, and a delivery address identifier, wherein a combination of the subscriber identifier, the mailing identifier, and the delivery address identifier is unique;
- relating the unique mail piece identifier to a particular mailer;
- generating for printing a representation of a postage indicium for the particular mail piece and a representation of the unique mail piece identifier;
- and
- recognizing an indication that an error occurred in a printing of at least one of the postage indicium or the representation of the unique mail piece identifier.
A method for handling printing errors in a computer-based postage system, said method comprising:
- receiving a postage printing request from a particular mailer, said postage printing request comprising a delivery address;
- formulating a unique mail piece identifier, said unique mail piece identifier comprising:
- a subscriber identifier, a mailing identifier;
- and delivery address information, wherein a combination of the subscriber identifier, the mailing identifier, and the delivery address information is unique;
- relating the unique mail piece identifier to a particular mailer;
- printing a postage indicium in accordance with the postage printing request;
- and
- recognizing an indication that an error occurred in a printing of the postage indicium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.