System for statistical follow-up of postal products
AssigneeNeopost Industrie
InventorClaude Tetard
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Abstract
This invention relates to a device for statistically following up postal products for electronic franking system, comprising a random access memory (RAM) used for recording communication statements, in which a saved part of this RAM contains a plurality of communication counters each associated with a determined postal product and corresponding to the total number of postal products considered as priority or secondary by the Postal Service.
Claims18
A method for statistically following up postal products for an electronic franking system, the method comprising:
- recording franking information of each of a plurality of franked postal products in a saved part of a random access memory (RAM) of the franking system, wherein franking information of each postal product is successively recorded in a separate memory location of the RAM upon being franked by the franking system, said RAM having a maximum recording capacity;
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- determining whether a postal product not yet recorded in the RAM belongs to at least one predetermined postal service category,
- wherein franking information of the postal product not yet recorded is prevented from being recorded in a memory location of the RAM storing a previously recorded postal product when the maximum recording capacity of the RAM has been attained unless the postal product not yet recorded is determined to belong to the at least one predetermined postal service category in which case the not yet recorded franking information is recorded in the RAM in place of previously recorded franking information.
A device for statistically following up postal products for an electronic franking system, the device comprising:
- means for recording franking information of each of a plurality of franked postal products in a saved part of a random access memory (RAM) of the franking system, wherein franking information of each postal product is successively recorded in a separate memory location of the RAM upon being franked by the franking system, said RAM having a maximum recording capacity;
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- means for determining whether a postal product not yet recorded in the RAM belongs to at least one predetermined postal service category,
- wherein franking information of the postal product not yet recorded is prevented from being recorded in a memory location of the RAM storing a previously recorded postal product when the maximum recording capacity of the RAM has been attained unless the postal product not yet recorded is determined to belong to the at least one predetermined postal service category in which case the not yet recorded franking information is recorded in the RAM in place of previously recorded franking information.
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