System for franking mail items with data document or file associated therewith
AssigneeNeopost Industrie
InventorDenis Gilham
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Abstract
This invention relates to a machine for franking mail items, comprising means for printing postal indicia on a mail item and means for also printing on this mail item a unique identification number for this mail item, means for creating at least one data document or file associated with this unique identification number printed on the mail item and means for communicating, through a secure link, the or each data document or file to an information server remote from the franking machine.
Claims16
A machine for franking mail items, comprising:
- means for printing postal indicia on a mail item and means for also creating a unique identification number for the mail item, the means for printing postal indicia also printing the unique identification number on the mail item, where the unique identification number is not a postal code already used by a postal service, and
- means, provided in the franking machine, for creating at least one data document or file associated with the unique identification number printed on the mail item and means for communicating, through a secure link, said at least one data document or file to an information server remote from the franking machine,
- wherein the unique identification number is printed on the mail item instead of postal codes used by the postal service that are not necessary to verify the validity of the mail item, such that a total amount of data printed on the mail item is reduced.
A process for franking mail items in a franking machine, comprising:
- printing postal indicia on a mail item;
- creating a unique identification number for the mail item;
- and
- printing the unique identification number on the mail item, where the unique identification number is not a postal code already used by a postal service,
- wherein at least one data document or file, associated with the unique identification number is further created in the franking machine, and said at least one data document or file is communicated, through a secured link, to an information server remote from the franking machine, and
- wherein the unique identification number is printed on the mail item instead of postal codes used by the postal service that are not necessary to verify the validity of the mail item, such that a total amount of data printed on the mail item is reduced.
A machine for franking mail items, comprising:
- means for printing postal indicia on a mail item and means for also creating a unique identification number for the mail item, the means for printing postal indicia also printing the unique identification number on the mail item, where the unique identification number is provided instead of all other postal codes including service codes, and
- means, provided in the franking machine, for creating at least one data document or file associated with the unique identification number printed on the mail item and means for communicating, through a secure link, said at least one data document or file to an information server remote from the franking machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.