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US 8,046,311 B2Granted
Postal indicia generating system and method
AssigneeNeopost Technologies
InventorsMark Ferraro, Daniel Lynch
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Abstract
A method for generating a postal indicia associated with a mailpiece is disclosed. The method includes generating an indicia data stream including a postal information segment and a security segment that is based upon the postal information segment and modifying a portion of the security segment to include additional information, thereby defining a modified indicia data stream.
Claims24
A method for generating a postal indicia indicium associated with a mailpiece, the method comprising:
- generating, by a computer system, an indicia data stream having a postal information segment and a security segment based upon an encryption of the postal information segment with a first encryption algorithm;
- overwriting, by the computer system, a portion of the security segment to include additional information, thereby defining a modified indicia data stream, the additional information not being encrypted with the first encryption algorithm;
- rendering the modified indicia data stream as the postal indicium;
- and
- altering the mailpiece such that the postal indicium is readable from the mailpiece.
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A system for generating a postal indicium associated with a mailpiece, comprising:
- a postal security device;
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- a controller, in signal communication with the postal security device;
- wherein the system is configured to perform a method comprising:
- generating, by the postal security device, an indicia data stream having a postal information segment and a security segment based upon an encryption of the postal information segment with a first encryption algorithm;
- overwriting, by the controller, a portion of the security segment to include additional information, thereby defining a modified indicia data stream, the additional information not being encrypted with the first encryption algorithm;
- rendering, by the controller, the modified indicia data stream as the postal indicium;
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- altering the mailpiece such that the postal indicium is readable from the mailpiece.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.