Providing stamps on secure paper using a communications network
CA 2391363 C · Owner: Neopost Inc. · Inventors: Brown, L. Carlton Jr.; Leon, J. P.
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A technique for printing postage and other value indicia at a user location. A user at a user computer acquires secure postage labels having one or more security features such as serrated edges a microprint strip, a color fiber, taggants a watermark, a hologram, or a fluorescent stripe. The labels have associated serial numbers, possibly at the sheet or individual label level. The user establishes communication with a postage vendor system (PVS) which , may include one or more servers and requests one or more indicia. The user also provides one or more serial numbers for the label(s) or label sheet(s) on which the one or more indicia are to be printed. The PVS determines if the one …
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- Filed November 7, 2000 and granted January 10, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 7, 2020.
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