Flexible billing rate for mail communication systems
CA 2005266 C · Owner: Pitney Bowes Inc. · Inventors: Wall, Joseph W.; Vanourek, Robert A.
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A communication system for processing information for distribution, including: a central data station a plurality of, user stations, a communication link interconnecting the user stations with the central data station, each the user station including means for assessing the central station the central data, station including a data base of usage information and billing data, the central station including means for accessing the user station usage data base, the central data station including means responsive to the user usage pattern for calculating a billing data means for transmitting the billing data to the station the, billing data including a billing plan based upon the usage …
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- Filed December 12, 1989 and granted March 14, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 12, 2009.
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