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Electronic data interchange postage evidencing system
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Inventors: Cordery, Robert A.; Pauly, Steven J.; Pintsov, Leon A.;
Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc. (Stamford, CT)
Primary Examiner: Cangialosi; Salvatore
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Malandra, Jr.; Charles R., Scolnick; Melvin J.
Methods and systems for preparing mailpieces involve the creation of mailing lists which includes correct and incorrect recipient address information. The list is transmitted to a data center. Received from the data center is a mailing list including addressed hygiened recipient address information and a digital token for each mailpiece with encrypted data. The encrypted data is based on the corrected address information for mailpieces with correct address information on the transmitted mailing list and on hygiened recipient address information the mailpieces with incorrect recipient address information on the transmitted mailing list. The digital tokens for each mailpiece may also be based on the rating parameter information. Selection is provided for utilizing a given one of the incorrect recipient address information and the correct recipient address information is applied to an encrypter generating the digital tokens. The encrypting means for generating digital tokens may be located remote from the mailer facility or on a mailer facility or other local area network. Various arrangements are employed in generating and printing digital tokens recipient address information and corrected recipient address information. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Reference is now made to FIG.
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A mailer unit shown generally at 112 is utilized to generate mailpieces including suitable postage revenue blocks including necessary information to mail the letters to various addresses.
The mailer unit 112 includes data necessary to process mail including mailing list information, rating information, mailer authentication code information and account data information which is stored in a storage device 115.
The mailer unit functions to create a mailing list, determine rating parameters which are used to establish the postal value to be imprinted on a mailpiece and encrypt and send to a data center the necessary information via electronic data interchange over communication link 118.
The mailer unit also receives the processed information necessary to prepare mailpieces and produces the mailpiece for dispatch into the mail stream.
The mailing list includes recipient address information.
This recipient address information may include both correct and incorrect information.
The nature of the incorrect information may be incomplete or inaccurate addressee data.
For example, as noted below address hygiene may be employed.
In such case, a determination that the address on the mailing list does not correspond to an address in the hygiene data base, the recipient addressee information would be deemed incorrect.
These databases include a compilation of all address for a given region, area or even an entire country.
The United States Postal Service National Address Database is one example of this type of database.
It should be recognized that in many instances incorrect address information does not render a mailpiece undeliverable as addressed.
For example, a street name may be misspelled or a zip code may be omitted or a "vanity" name or abbreviation may be used for a city.
Communication is encrypted to prevent eavesdropping on the communication link.
A shared piece of secret data such as the mailer authentication code may be communicated in encrypted form to verify the authenticity of the mailer and likewise to verify the authenticity of the data center shown generally at 116
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