Encrypted postage indicia printing for mailer inserting systems
CA 2243763 C · Owner: Swaluk, Michael Y. · Inventors: Swaluk, Michael Y.; Harvey, George B.; Bator, Feliks
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A post production processing application receives and manipulates document print images, in particular to integrate postage printing and accounting into the document finishing without the need for a specialized, postage printing system. The post production processing application may run on a main frame, together with the application(s) that generate the document print images, or on some other computer platform. The post production processing application calculates postage for each document and interacts with a postage metering functionality to obtain digital tokens. Each token includes an encrypted cipher for use in validating applied postage indicia. The mail processing system uses the …
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- Filed July 21, 1998 and granted November 11, 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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