Postage meter value card system
CA 1301335 C · Owner: Pitney Bowes Inc. · Inventors: Jackson, Winslow E.; Chen, Robert K.T.; Kim, Paul Hk
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A postage meter recharging system is provided wherein an authorized value card center maintains a customer account of available postage funds. Upon confirmation of a meter access code the value card center debits the customer account and authorizes issuance of an integrated circuit value card bearing in memory a meter combination code and an appropriate amount of postage meter funds. The value card is inserted into the value card read-write unit of a postage meter terminal and upon, confirmation of the proper meter combination code transfers at, least a portion of the postage meter funds from the value card to the postage meter vault.
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- Granted May 19, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 19, 2009.
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