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Process for addressing to a recipient
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InventorRoger Cesarini
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A process for sending to a recipient either a message, especially computer information, or items such as a document, envelope, letter, packet, parcel, load and others. It allocates to each message, or item, two references called respectively "identifier" and "locator" which together correspond to a single recipient, the identifier being formed by the combination of a code for geographical location and the recipients telephone number, whilst the locator is formed by coordinates, preferably in the form of digits coming from a grid which is established for a certain geographical zone, coordinates which correspond to a mesh of the grid representing the most accurate geographical location possible of the recipient. According to a particular mode of application, the geographic location code is formed by the official code of an administrative zone such as a Department for France, a County for the USA and the U.K., a "Landkreis" for Germany and similar.
A process of delivering a message to a recipient, comprising the steps of:
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Sorting according to destination
Sorting according to destination: devices or arrangements for indicating destination, e.g. by code marks
Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids: using electronic means
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids: sorting flat-type mail
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There is at present no means whatsoever of automatically sending a message to an individual addressee without the need for data preparation by someone.
This applies, for example, to the document EP-A-0 272 355 which describes an installation comprising a computer controlled by a central administration system and in whose memory all the information regarding all the possible addresses is stored.
Now, it is known that 87% of transmission errors that occur in data processing or the routing of items (letters, parcels, etc.) is due to faulty data logging operations.
FIG. 1 is a table showing (on the left) the names and addresses in lear writing, and (on the right) the identifying symbols according to the invention.
FIG. 2 is a metropolitan map of France showing its provinces, with a larger scale map of the city of Paris.
FIG. 3 is a plan of Paris including all the "plots" of the survey plan "within the walls" of Paris, with a coordinate system according to the invention, the location of the "plots" or "parcels" having 08 14 for coordinates.
According to the invention, a reference is allocated to the items to be despatched; this reference consists not of a simple code but a genuine "identifier", since it contains symbols (preferably only digits) that correspond to public, and even international, elements that identify, with certainty and precision, any addressee who is a telephone subscriber in his country.
As a result, all delivery procedures, including the physical transportation of objects, can be carried out without any manual data preparation operation. This automation system enables any kind of machine to be used, and limits intervention by humans to what is strictly necessary.
The result is that problems of language and spelling, which sometimes cannot be resolved, are eliminated since definite identification of an addressee is assured by means of digits, whatever the addressee's nationality.