Metering system with remotely resettable time lockout
CA 2063084 C · Owner: Pitney Bowes Inc. · Inventors: Hunter, Kevin D.
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A metering system requires a user to provide periodic accurate meter readings to a billing authority. The metering system includes a mechanism for dispensing postage or another accountable quantity an accounting mechanism, for updating and storing information regarding the amount of postage dispensed by the dispensing mechanism and an output mechanism for outputting the stored postage information. The system also includes a mechanism for storing a time deadline a, clock that provides a current date signal and a lock that disables the dispensing mechanism when the current date is not before the stored deadline. The system also includes a reset mechanism for extending the stored deadline. A …
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- Filed March 17, 1992 and granted August 4, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 17, 2012.
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