Method for preventing stale addresses in an ibip open metering system
CA 2243623 C · Owner: Weber, Tracy A. · Inventors: Weber, Tracy A.; Pierce, Perry A.
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A method to verify the validity of an address to be used in the generation of an indicium by an IBIP open metering system includes entering an address into the metering system; verifying that an address record corresponding to the address exists in an address record database for the metering system; determining from information stored in the address record that the address record is valid; and generating indicium using at least some of said information form the address record and printing said indicium. In determining the freshness of the address record the method verifies that a, postal code exists that the last cleansing of the address record was later thanthe last modification of the …
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- Filed July 21, 1998 and granted January 14, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 21, 2018.
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