Network-based mail piece generation
CA 2222967 C · Owner: Gardner, David P. · Inventors: Gardner, David P.
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A Mail Generation Computer (MGC) is connected to a Local Area Network (LAN) at a customer site having a mail generation facility. A desktop PC on theLAN under user control, accesses the MGC and submits a mail job to the MGC via the LAN. The MGC responds to the request and calls various mail piece generationmodules needed to implement the request thus freeing the user's equipment for, other uses. The invention includes a job coordinator module for the MGC to call, run and coordinate the various modules. The system embodied in the server thus allows any user at the customer site to submit a job to a process implemented on the LAN, which generates a finished mail piece or pieces thus freeing …
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- Filed November 28, 1997 and granted April 10, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 28, 2017.
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