Mailing system user interface

Abstract

A method for marking a mailpiece with a marking device is provided. The method includes providing the marking device with a processor and a user interface for inputting and displaying information entering in the user interface a partial sequence of characters from a complete sequence of characters, wherein the complete sequence of characters identifies a predetermined indicia related to a predetermined characteristic of the mailpiece with the processor, using the partial sequence to identify predetermined indicia stored in a memory of the processor that satisfy the partial sequence listing the predetermined indicia on a display of the user interface and selecting one of the listed predetermined indicia, wherein selection of the one listed predetermined indicia causes the processor to generate a corresponding command to the marking device.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.