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AssigneePitney Bowes Inc.
InventorsJeffrey D. Pierce, Steven M. Kaye
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A postage printing system, comprising a computer, a data center and a control system. The computer is in operative communication with a printer for printing a postal indicia on an envelope. The data center is in operative communication with the computer which in turn is located remotely from the data center. The data center includes a plurality of user accounts and a plurality of advertiser accounts where each of the plurality of advertiser accounts includes respective ad data including message data and restriction data. The control system is in operative communication with the data center and the computer and is for: (i) establishing a transaction session between a user of the computer corresponding to one of the plurality of user accounts and the data center; (ii) obtaining the user profile data from the user; and (iii) using the user profile data to identify message data available for printing on the envelope in conjunction with the postal indicia.
A postage printing system, comprising:
A method of operating a postage printing system, the postage printing system including a computer in operative communication with a printer for printing a postal indicia on an envelope and a data center in operative communication with the computer, the computer being located remotely from the data center, the data center including a plurality of postage accounts and a plurality of advertiser accounts, each of the plurality of postage accounts including respective user profile data, respectively, each of the plurality of advertiser accounts having message data representative of a message, respectively, for printing on the envelope, the method comprising the step(s) of:
A method of operating a data center, the data center in operative communication with a computer system including a printer for printing a postal indicia on an envelope, the method comprising the step(s) of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.