EP0137737A2 - System zur Berechnung von Portogebühren sowie Frankiermaschine - Google Patents
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- EP0137737A2 EP0137737A2 EP84306200A EP84306200A EP0137737A2 EP 0137737 A2 EP0137737 A2 EP 0137737A2 EP 84306200 A EP84306200 A EP 84306200A EP 84306200 A EP84306200 A EP 84306200A EP 0137737 A2 EP0137737 A2 EP 0137737A2
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- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
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- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
- G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
- G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
- G07B17/00661—Sensing or measuring mailpieces
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- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
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- G07B2017/00153—Communication details outside or between apparatus for sending information
- G07B2017/00177—Communication details outside or between apparatus for sending information from a portable device, e.g. a card or a PCMCIA
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- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
- G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
- G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
- G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
- G07B2017/00201—Open franking system, i.e. the printer is not dedicated to franking only, e.g. PC (Personal Computer)
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- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
- G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
- G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
- G07B17/00362—Calculation or computing within apparatus, e.g. calculation of postage value
- G07B2017/00395—Memory organization
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
- G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
- G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
- G07B17/00661—Sensing or measuring mailpieces
- G07B2017/00701—Measuring the weight of mailpieces
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- This invention relates to a method and apparatus for updating parameters used in a data processing system.
- the invention relates particularly although not exclusively to a method and apparatus for updating postal rate charts and other postal data in a data processing system which determines applicable postage values for items to be mailed based on the weight of that item and other mailing information.
- a data processing system comprising:
- the processor has a memory for storing programs to be executed by the processor, a mass storage means for storing data, the data including selected parameters to be used in the execution of programs and additional data identifying the selected parameters, a portable media storage means for storing data on portable media such as floppy disks, the portable media data including data for updating the parameters and a program for controlling the updating, means for transferring data between the mass storage means and the memory and for transferring data between the portable media storage means and the memory, initializing means for controlling the transfer of the updating program from the portable media in response to an initializati6n signal, and wherein the processor then executes the updating program to access the additional data and to identify the selected parameters and then updates the selected parameters in accordance with the updating data.
- a data processing system comprising: a processor, a memory operatively associated with the processor for storing programs to be executed, a first portable media drive for providing access to portable media and a second portable media drive for providing access to portable media, initializing apparatus for, in response to an initializing signal, controlling the transfer of program data from a predetermined location on a portable medium mounted in the first drive to predetermined locations in the memory and for transferring control of the processor to the program defined by the program data, a first portable medium for storing data the first medium including a boot-up program in the predetermined locations, an operating program and selected parameter data to be used in the execution of the operating program and also additional data identifying the selected parameter data; whereby the system may be operated in a normal mode to execute the operating program in accordance with the parameter data by mounting the first medium in the first drive and generating an initializing signal, and a second portable medium for storing data the second medium including data for updating the selected parameter data and further including data defining an updating program for controlling the updating of the selected parameter data when
- the subject invention also includes a portable storage medium storing data as patterns of indicia in selected locations within the structure of the medium for use in a data processing system to update data stored in a similar storage medium, the similar medium additionally storing data in predetermined locations defining a program to be loaded into, and executed by the data processing system upon initialization of the data processing system when the portable storage medium is operatively associated with the data processing system, the portable storage medium including, a first pattern of indicia representing data for updating the parameter data, and a second pattern of indicia, stored in locations corresponding to the predetermined locations in the similar storage medium, the second pattern defining an updating program for updating the parameter data in accordance with the updating data, whereby the portable storage medium may be substituted for the similar medium so that the updating program may be loaded into, and executed by, the data processing system upon initialization of the data processing system and the data processing system may update the parameter information in accordance with the updating data when the similar medium is operatively associated with the data processing system.
- the data processing system further includes a scale and the operating program computes postage values in accordance with weight of items to be mailed as determined by the scale and in accordance with the parameter information which comprises postal data charts.
- the updating program destroys the updating data on the second portable media after updating the parameter information so as to prevent unauthorized distribution of the updating information.
- the invention as particularly described herein provides an advantageous method and apparatus for updating parameter information in a data processing system wherein the full capabilities of the microprocessor comprised in such system are utilized and unauthorized further distribution of such updating data is prevented.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic block diagram of a mailing system in accordance with the subject invention.
- the system comprises scale 10, microcomputer system 20 and, optionally, postage meter 50.
- the meter 50 also includes tape base 52.
- meter 50 is a Model 6500 electronic postage meter produced by Pitney Bowes Inc. of Stamford, Connecticut 06926.
- Scale 10 comprises a conventional load cell 12 which produces an analog signal proportional to the load on the cell, conventional analog circuitry 14 which senses, amplifies and digitizes the analog signal to produce a periodic digital signal representative of the analog signal, and CPU 16 which receives the digital signal and processes it to determine the weight of the item to be mailed.
- Construction of such a processor controlled digital scale is well understood in the art and forms no part of the novelty of the present invention.
- a typical example of such a digital processor controlled scale is shown in U.S. -A- 4,236,222 to Loshbough, et al., issued November 25th, 1980.
- the microcomputer system 20 comprises microcomputer 22 operatively connected to a dual floppy disk drive 24, a printer 26, a display CRT 30 and a keyboard 40.
- Mircocomputer system 20 is substantially similar to any number of commercially available microcomputer systems such as the Altos Microcomputer System produced by the Altos Corporation of San Jose, California.
- computer system 20 will have a modified keyboard 40 including special function keys defining various postal information, such as class of service or special rates.
- special function keys defining various postal information, such as class of service or special rates.
- a typical set of such special function keys is
- Microcomputer 22 is operatively connected to scale 10 through RS 232 port 18A.
- RS 232 port 18A provides a standard serial interconnection protocol well known and understood by those skilled in the art and a description of the interconnection process is not necessary for an understanding of the subject invention.
- electronic postage meter 50 is operatively connected to scale 10 through meter interface 18B. Because operation of postage meter 50 is equivalent to spending money to buy a stamp, interface 18B is specially designed to be secure and have a low error rate. Such an interface is described in U.S. Patent Number 4,301,507 to Soderberg, et al., issued November 17, 1981, which is hereby incorporated by a reference.
- the weight of an item to be mailed is transmitted from CPU 16 through RS 232 port 18A to microcomputer 22.
- Microcomputer 22 computes the appropriate postage value in accordance with the weight and postal information entered through keyboard 40, as will be described further below. If electronic postage meter 50 is included in the system the appropriate postage value is transmitted back to CPU 16, which in turn transmits the information to postage meter 50 through meter interface 18B as described in the above Soderberg patent.
- Meter 50 functions conventionally to print appropriate indicia on a meter tape for application to the item to be mailed and to record and account for the postage expended.
- the appropriate postage value may be printed by printer 26 in conjunction with item identification information to generate a manifest which may be used by a commercial delivery service such as UPS.
- UPS commercial delivery service
- a floppy disk such as that shown in Figure 2a is mounted in drive A of dual disk drive 24.
- microcomputer 22 executes a brief program stored in a ROM which is an integral part of microprocessor 22 to load a boot loader program stored in a predetermined location of the disk of Figure 2a.
- the boot loader program then loads the system program stored on the disk of Figure 22a into the memory of microcomputer 22 and transfers control to the systems program.
- the systems program operates on weight data for items to be mailed received from scale 10 and other postal information, such as destination and class of service, received from an operator through keyboard 40 to compute appropriate postage values in accordance with postal data charts stored on the disk of Figure 2a.
- the systems program will display prompts on CRT 30 to elicit the required information from the operator. Having determined the appropriate postage value for an item to be mailed microcomputer 22 prints out the appropriate value in conjunction with information identifying the item to be mailed on the manifest sheet in printer 26. The invoice sheet can then be used to determine the total amount to be paid to the UPS driver when a shipment is picked up and as the invoice for that shipment.
- drive B of dual drive 24 may be used to mount a second floppy disk which may be used to record a daily, or longer, record of transactions.
- the system of Figure 1 may be placed in an update mode by mounting the disk of Figure 2b in drive A and the disk of Figure 2a in drive B.
- microcomputer 22 would then load the update program, which is stored in locations corresponding to the boot loader on the disk of Figure 2a. (equivalently a boot loader in the corresponding locations on the disk of Figure 2b may be used to load the update program).
- the update program then reads identification data from the disk of Figure 2a which identifies the particular postal rate charts that are available on that disk and are associated with particular postal services used by that system and updates those postal rate charts in accordance with the update data on the disk of Figure 2b.
- the program copies the disk of Figure 2a, in its updated form, back onto the disk of Figure 2b thus, simultaneously providing a back-up systems disk while destroying the update data to prevent unauthorized re-use of that data.
- the update data may include data defining a check sum which may be used by the update program to validate the data on the systems disk after updating.
- the updating program would generate a check sum from the updated data on the systems disk in accordance with any of several well known techniques and compare it with the stored check sum. Additionally, the generated check sum could be displayed on CRT 30 for visual verification by an operator.
- the invention particularly disclosed and illustrated herein provides an updating method and apparatus in. a manner which reduces cost and decreases inventory control problems; and moreover permits the supplier of a mailing system to control the distribution of such updating information.
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EP0137737A2 true EP0137737A2 (de) | 1985-04-17 |
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EP0137737B1 EP0137737B1 (de) | 1991-05-22 |
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