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AssigneePitney Bowes Inc.
InventorsGeorge B. Edelmann, Kevin D. Hunter, Arno Muller, Alfred C. Schmidt, Jr.
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A system for detecting fraudulent imprints on documents is disclosed. The system comprises a metering device, a host and a verifying facility. The metering device provides a validation signal to the host and its associated printer. Thereafter, the printer prints information which includes information from the validation signal. Thereafter the information printed on a mailpiece can be validated at the verifying facility by detecting the validation information provided by the metering device. The system provides a method to make a secure metering device without an integral printer. This value printing system provides for a secure system that will allow for the detection of fraudulent imprints at a verifying facility.
A value printing system having a first processing means coupled to a printing means and a metering device, said metering device comprising:
In a value printing system, the system including a printing means, the value printing system including a portable metering device, the portable metering device comprising, a processing means input means coupled to said processing means for inputting information, a nonvolatile memory means, private bus means coupling said nonvolatile memory menas to said processing means, said nonvolatile memory means for storing accounting information located therein and for transferring accounting information to the processing means, and means coupled to the processing means for encrypting information to be printed by said printing means, in which the processing means accounts for the value to be printed and supplies the printing means with data giving evidence that value has been accounted for and which said printing means will print along with the value.
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