Sorting mail in carrier walk sequence
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsEhud D. Karnin, Eugene Walach
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Abstract
An automated mail sorting system including a display for displaying the image of an item of mail belonging to a carrier route, and input device for associating the image with any of a plurality of stations in a walking sequence of the carrier route, and a sorter having a reader for identifying the item of mail, to sorter for placing the item of mail in a location corresponding to the station in the walking sequence.
Claims17
An automated mail sorting system comprising:
- a computer having a display and an input device, wherein said computer is configured to
- display on said display an image of an item of mail, and
- receive via said input device, while said image of said item of mail is displayed on said display, an input including a carrier walk sequence station identifier associating said item of mail with a station in a carrier walk sequence of a carrier route, and
- an automated mail sorting device configured to
- receive from said computer said carrier walk sequence station identifier associating said item of mail with said station, and
- place said item of mail in a physical location corresponding to said station in said carrier walk sequence.
An automated mail sorting method comprising:
- displaying on a display of a computer an image of an item of mail;
- receiving via an input device of said computer, while said image of said item of mail is displayed on said display, an input including a carrier walk sequence station identifier associating said item of mail with a station in a carrier walk sequence of a carrier route;
- and
- communicating to an automated mail sorting device said carrier walk sequence station identifier associating said item of mail with said station, thereby causing said automated mail sorting device to place said item of mail in a physical location corresponding to said station in said carrier walk sequence.
A computer program product on a computer readable medium for automated mail sorting, the computer program product comprising:
- a computer-readable storage medium;
- and
- computer-readable program code embodied in the computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable program code is configured to
- display on a display of a computer an image of an item of mail,
- receive via an input device of said computer, while said image of said item of mail is displayed on said display, an input including a carrier walk sequence station identifier associating said item of mail with a station in a carrier walk sequence of a carrier route, and
- communicate to an automated mail sorting device said carrier walk sequence station identifier associating said item of mail with said station, thereby causing said automated mail sorting device to place said item of mail in a physical location corresponding to said station in said carrier walk sequence.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.