EP0992947B1 - Dispositif et procédé de stockage de données d'utilisation d'un appareil par un utilisateur - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé de stockage de données d'utilisation d'un appareil par un utilisateur Download PDF

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EP0992947B1
EP0992947B1 EP19990250331 EP99250331A EP0992947B1 EP 0992947 B1 EP0992947 B1 EP 0992947B1 EP 19990250331 EP19990250331 EP 19990250331 EP 99250331 A EP99250331 A EP 99250331A EP 0992947 B1 EP0992947 B1 EP 0992947B1
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  • the invention relates to an arrangement and a method for storing data on a use of a terminal according to the preamble of claim 1 and of claim 7.
  • the arrangement and the method are particularly suitable for users of franking machines.
  • Postage meter machines at least requested the service of printing a postage value on a print carrier (adhesive tape, letter). Further known services include, for example, postage calculations for determining the postage value of a most favorable carrier or freight forwarder (EP 747 864 A2). On the one hand, each terminal thus provides the service for which it is programmed.
  • EP 493 948 B1 discloses a postage meter machine which can print the delivery type as a separate optional printing stamp for the franking stamp or integrated with it and which is equipped with a plurality of registers in a secure module for storing accounting data relating to the use of the franking machine relate to the franking of objects.
  • a first set of registers refers to a specific first service and a second set of registers refers to a specific second service, whereby the special services are selectable via the input means and the accounting data of the respective selected service is updated.
  • only certain services will be collected for billing purposes. These statements do not give the carrier sufficient information about customer behavior.
  • a franking machine is equipped with a special operation memory and with a connection for an external printer. The user is required to select and print only certain of the stored periodic data collection.
  • the user not only needs to provide a separate printer, but may also need to reserve a lot of time to search out and print the data.
  • the applicant's new franking machines use digital printing units.
  • the franking machines T1000 and JetMail by the applicant Francotyp Postalia AG & Co. have, for the first time, a thermal transfer printer or an inkjet printer worldwide.
  • This makes it possible in principle to print on a filled letter in the area of the postage stamp also addresses and other information, which are in a corresponding context with a service.
  • optional prints are also printed on the franking in order to mark the shipping type or form.
  • the form of storage may be adapted to the needs of a plurality of users of the same postage meter. For example, some machines assume class formation in the form of cost centers that are assigned to individual user groups.
  • DE 42 24 955 A1 proposes a method and arrangement for internal cost center printing.
  • the printouts that can be generated for each cost center contain subdivided listings of the post office use of the postage meter machine according to optional printouts.
  • the saving of the additional printer is beneficial to the users.
  • a device for tracking the post office use of an electronic franking system which communicates with a central office, which exchange electronic messages.
  • the message format includes Information on identification, register status and credit status as well as a number of additional bytes for the statistical sequence.
  • the bytes for the statistical sequence contain a breakdown by postage value, by weight or by destination of the franked postal items. Part of the statistical order instructions may be modified during communication with the control center. Modification of a statement must, however, be done in advance, before a statistical entry is started. Communication takes place via telephone line or via electronic module, which must be physically transported to the communication partner.
  • the object of the invention is to make the storage of data in a terminal and its communication with a remote data center so that the manner of statistics can be subsequently defined.
  • the terminal should not be blocked by keeping statistics. Unaffected by the storage and transmission of usage data, the use of the terminal for services is to be enabled in a service mode. Services for a franking device should also be statistically detectable, which are used in interaction with the data center.
  • the invention is based on the availability of low-cost memories with a very high storage capacity in order to collect usage data of a system.
  • the usage data relates to information about user-selected properties of a system or features of a device that are capable of rendering services at least statistically detectable.
  • the mailing or the mailing of items by a public or private mail carrier is only one possible service type of a service company.
  • Device of the shipping system is understood to be a terminal remote from the service provider or a terminal device of a franking system standing at the customer's.
  • the characteristics of the shipping system or (customer / end) device are to be understood as specific user inputs and specific automatically made entries that are related to the order that a customer places with the service provider.
  • the memory capacity of a user memory can be optimally utilized by a space-saving storage space management of usage data, ie, be set lower than in the case of a known pure historical storage of usage information.
  • the number of storages can be increased, ie the terminal or device of a franking system can have a longer storage life Be operated before communication with the data center is required.
  • the stored data is loaded into a memory of the data center. Based on the improved possibilities of communication at a high baud rate, communication requires only a relatively short period of time to transfer all the data from the terminal to the data center.
  • the terminal is in particular a franking machine, a device of a franking and / or mail processing system, a PC franking machine or any peripheral device of a system which itself provides a service or permits the use of the service of a third party.
  • a record of individual usage events is created in a corresponding service mode.
  • the usage information preferably identifies the postal use of the franking machine or of a franking system.
  • the franking mode according to the invention comprises a storage mode for the cumulative storage of the current usage information together with the previous usage information.
  • a postage meter while operating or as a result of operating in the postage mode, will store usage information sparingly on the one hand and in a form that reflects the historical order of events on the other hand.
  • no finished or pre-compressed statistics must be stored in the terminal franking machine.
  • the generation of an on-demand statistics on a use of a terminal after loading those data from the user memory in the remote memory, which were stored non-volatile during use of the terminal in the user memory.
  • a space-saving historical storage method will be used and data compression will be performed by modem during transmission.
  • a storage of such usage data of an event is dispensed with, which is equal to the previously stored usage data of an earlier event.
  • Equality exists in the way that existing differences can not be grasped. For example, certain data are only available in a connected scale and are not transmitted to the franking machine. Equality is also present if existing differences are not recorded in the parameter memory or a corresponding information is missing. It is possible that a device of a franking system remains unused or is not connected (for example, a separate static balance).
  • information which relates to the properties or features which have already become active or which are bound to become effective and which are capable of rendering services statistically detectable is analyzed for qualitative and quantitative changes.
  • An event of qualitative change of a property is historically stored in which new memory locations are occupied for such usage data.
  • a quantitative change only leads to the correction of the data in the occupied memory locations with respect to the relevant data of the result of a previous analysis. The assignment to the other data remains.
  • the result of the analysis is stored in a historical order of records or in the form of historically listed event code in an event list. This results in a space-saving memory usage for a historical storage of usage data regardless of the form of storage, ie, regardless of whether the information is stored in the form of data in a record or alternatively, whether a storage in the form of event code in an event list he follows.
  • an event is a determination of a future change of state of postal data or shipping information in a device that is inevitably or inevitably occurring, which is caused by an input or setting made automatically or by the user.
  • a feature which can change the state of a machine or system in connection with a service is, for example, a stored (special) setting of a franking machine or of another device of a franking system, which has an effect on the franking, because in the impression correspondingly a comparable characteristic feature appears or because at least in the billing of the service has a corresponding user input or because the user behavior affects.
  • the stored (special) setting of a franking machine or a franking system is also referred to as a parameter.
  • Such parameters are listed in a parameter list and remain non-volatile stored in a parameter memory until the next change.
  • the change of a parameter preceding the franking, which relates to a qualitative property, is according to the invention an event to be documented in the use memory 16, which occupies a state change. With a large number of such parameters, the space-saving storage method is of particular importance. It has been found that for a given user behavior, it is particularly advantageous if the storage of events relating to qualitative and quantitative properties takes place as listed specific code in an event list.
  • the microprocessor is inventively programmed to organize the allocation of memory locations for the data of a record in the current process according to the occurring events, wherein the data of the record include at least one parameter value and a number of pieces.
  • An associated reference list stores a specific code for events relating to qualitative properties, wherein the code can be assigned to a property in a dynamic process of a property that can be freely defined within predetermined limits.
  • FIG. 1a shows a block diagram of the franking machine according to the invention with a printer module 1 for a fully electronically generated franking image, with at least one input element 2 having a plurality of actuators, a display unit 3, a MODEM 23 producing the communication with a data center, further input means 21 or balance 22 which are coupled to a controller 6 via an I / O control module 4 and to nonvolatile memories 5a, 5b and 9, 10 and 11, respectively, for data and programs, respectively, which include the variable and constant portions of the franking image.
  • a character memory 9 supplies the necessary pressure data for the variable parts of the franking image to a volatile working memory 7.
  • the control device 6 has a microprocessor ⁇ P connected to the input / output control module 4, with the character memory 9, with the volatile random access memory 7 and nonvolatile random access memories 5a, 5b (with internal user memory) or (dashed line) with an additional user memory 16, with a program memory 11, with the motor of a transport or feed device, if necessary with strip release 12, an encoder (coding disk) 13 and with a calendar or clock / date module 8 is in communication.
  • the memory module which comprises the non-volatile main memory 5b can be, for example, an EEPROM, which is secured against removal by at least one additional measure, for example sticking to the printed circuit board, sealing or casting with epoxy resin.
  • the current parameters are stored in a designated area, which are printed at least the postage as variable data on the mail piece. This memory area can also be executed as a separate parameter memory.
  • the corresponding parameters listed in a parameter list and remain non-volatile stored in the parameter memory until the next change.
  • the usage memory can also be realized separately or, for example, within the nonvolatile memory 5a by providing special memory areas. In a particular service provided by another service provider, separate storage areas, not shown, are provided for usage data or separate storage devices.
  • the individual memory can be realized in several physically separate or not shown combined in a few modules.
  • the required usage information is stored in at least one separate memory area including a plurality of memory locations 16-01 through 16-0n.
  • the memory module 16 is assigned to the service provider and its memory area is assigned to all cost centers. In the case of a multiplicity of memory areas, each memory area can each be assigned to one cost center.
  • Per memory space a number of memory cells corresponding to the number of information units to be stored bits are addressed by the microprocessor uP.
  • the following pieces of information bits such as number, postage, date, promotional cliché number, weight, format, shipping information (shape, type, destination) and certain errors can be mapped to the aforementioned information bits.
  • the available storage capacity in the usage memory is for example 20 kbytes. It is optimally used by a space-saving storage space management, which nevertheless allows a reconstruction of the order of usage information for a service.
  • the use of the franking machine in accordance with the franking service for the dispatch of mail pieces results in at least one specific user information.
  • the usage information required for the subsequent creation of any statistics in the data center is transmitted via modem 23 to the data center.
  • a storage area is selected by a cost center entered by the user in order to store the postage value in a first storage location 16-01 as the first usage information in a first use "franking". Further memory locations for values or numbers are provided as user information. Usage information is assigned a counter which is incremented if the subsequent use gives similar usage information.
  • a correspondingly different usage information is stored in one of the following memory locations.
  • the second memory location 16-02 at least one allocated number of memory cells exist as counters for storing a subsequent similar use.
  • the counter requires only a small number of memory cells in the second memory location 16-02.
  • the storage space saving thus results from the piece counting in an immediately consecutive similar use the franking machine.
  • a group of usage information is assigned a single counter. This is advantageous in the case of a stack of mail pieces, whereby each mail piece can be assigned this same group. The individual usage information of the group remains unchanged.
  • the usage information advantageously consists of at least one code or an identifier, which likewise occupies only a small number of memory cells of the memory location.
  • FIG. 1b shows details of the block diagram of another variant of the electronic postage meter with one-time programmable (OTP) processor in the control device.
  • OTP one-time programmable
  • the electronic control unit provides at least one separate memory area for usage data, which can be transmitted at intervals to the data center via modem.
  • an electronic postage meter machine in a variant not shown here can also be realized by a personal computer with a connected commercial printer, if the throughput of mail in mail processing may be low. Such an arrangement is also referred to as a PC meter.
  • the printer can also be used for high-speed mail processing be interpreted.
  • a mail processing system with a controlled by personal computer printing machine base station is described in the non-prepublished German patent application DE 19711998.0.
  • FIG. 1c shows a block diagram of the meter of an electronic postage meter which can be detached from a base which is also suitable for mixed mail processing.
  • Part of the meter is a special security module 40, which carries out the billing of the frankings and stores.
  • the security module 40 is protected by physical and software security measures.
  • a read / write memory 16 is connected to a microprocessor 6 of the meter. This memory has memory areas with a larger number of memory cells for data records.
  • the microprocessor 6 is either coupled in a conventional manner with a volatile random access memory RAM 7, which stores the working variables, pixel data and forms the stack area for the various tasks, or equipped with an internal RAM.
  • the microprocessor 6 is connected to a program memory ROM 11 or equipped with an internal Rome, with which the microprocessor 6 is programmed accordingly, so that according to the use of records in the non-volatile random access memory 16 arise.
  • the non-volatile random access memory 16 is, for example, an NV-CMOS RAM or an E 2 PROM.
  • the microprocessor 6 is correspondingly programmed to manage at least one of the memory areas, wherein a certain number of similar data sets can be stored in the aforementioned memory area.
  • a cliché memory 10 On the microprocessor 6, a cliché memory 10, a battery-backed clock / date module 8, a postage rate storage 13 and input means and output means are also connected via a bus 44.
  • An input means is the keyboard 2.
  • a Display unit 4 is, for example, an LCD display with associated controller and a further output means is a printer, in particular in a base with a machine-internal print head 1, which is not moved during printing and with which at least one franking stamp imprint can be printed on a piece of mail.
  • Billing in the security module 40 can take place, as is explained in more detail in the European application EP 789 333 A2 (entitled: Franking Machine).
  • the hardware-based billing is fast and tamper-proof, so that no billing errors can arise.
  • the security module 40 includes a One Time Programmable (OTP) processor 50, a power-on reset device 48, and a user-defined device 66 (ASIC) having a computing unit 60 and a connected CMOS-based lithium battery 42. RAM memory 41 on.
  • OTP One Time Programmable
  • ASIC user-defined device 66
  • the billable data are transmitted via a bus 44 in the base to the interface 64 of the user-specific module 66 and from there to the A réelleussi 60, which performs the billing hardware.
  • the print data are transmitted from the microprocessor 6 either via an interface 64 and printer monitoring unit 62 of the user-specific module 66 to the print register DR 15 of the print controller DS 14 of the printer or output directly via an I / O unit 4.
  • the security module 40 has, in a manner known per se, a secured housing and at least one additional physical security measure which prevents a successful entry into the security module and its exploration.
  • Arrangement for a security module 198 16 572.2 physical security measures were described in more detail in the non-prepublished German patent application.
  • Arrangement for access protection for security module 198 16 571.4 further physical security measures were described in more detail in the non-prepublished German patent application.
  • the security module prevents the misuse of programs or data stored in the meter, ie externally from the security module.
  • suitable Security measures are also the European patent applications EP 660 269 A2 (method for improving the safety of franking machines) and EP 762 227 A2 (method and arrangement for increasing the security against manipulation of critical data) and EP 762 338 A2 (method for securing data and program code a electronic postage meter) removable.
  • the microprocessor 6 is preferably arranged in meters of the franking machine and communicates with a franking machine-internal interface to the base in particular with an actuator / sensor controller 17 and with an encoder 13 for determining the transport speed of the mail in combination, as already in principle in the EP 716 398 A2 was proposed.
  • One of the actuators is a letter sensor, which determines the reaching of the printing position of a letter or other mail, with letter thicknesses up to 20 mm are possible. At higher thicknesses of the mail can be worked with a - not shown - strip encoder for franking strips, which is also connected via the actuator / sensor controller 17 to the microprocessor 6.
  • the I / O unit 4 is provided with corresponding interfaces for modem and / or chip card read / write unit and with system interfaces for coupling further different external devices, such as an external balance, an automatic mail item feeder, a mail piece or a personal computer PC.
  • FIG. 2 shows an overall flow chart for a franking machine with steps 417 to 430 according to the invention for a storage mode within a franking mode 400.
  • the flow has, after a start routine 101, a system routine 200 with a point s. It is envisaged that after switching on the franking machine in step Start 100 within a start routine 101, a functional check with subsequent initialization takes place.
  • a program code in the non-readable internal OTP-ROM now allows several advantageous start-up security check routines, as described in the German patent application DE 19534530 A1 with the title: Method for securing data and program code electronic postage meter were set forth in more detail.
  • the terminal is preferably a postage meter having a microprocessor 6 programmed to enter into an input / display routine 209 and a metering mode (400) within a system routine 200, the input routine 209 being for acquiring current usage data by the microprocessor the franking machine in the non-volatile memory 5a, prompting steps for inputting a usage information concerning at least the franking value, the weight or the shipping.
  • the process continues after the input / display routine 209 with a branch to a communication mode 300 and to the modified franking mode 400.
  • the steps 401 to 407 are preferably executed in a known manner as explained in the foregoing.
  • the OTP processor 50 of the security module 40 handles these steps, with the step 406 performed by the hardware abort unit 60 of the ASIC 66.
  • the billing data is stored in the Li-battery based NV-RAM 41 in the security module. Following are a number of steps (not shown) for forming 415 a checksum and decrypting DES 416 into a MAC (Message Authentication Code).
  • the event list also stores the quantitative events accordingly for the same usage behavior, but not historically.
  • the quantitative events are counted and also stored in the form of a variable code.
  • the codes are changed according to a number of pieces.
  • the microprocessor accesses the predetermined code stored in the program memory 11 and writes it in the list. It changes at least one code in the event list 500 as part of the execution of each service.
  • the service in the illustrated example is preferably limited to, but not limited to, franking mailpieces.
  • a variety of different codes can also be reserved for another service or dynamically generated in the process.
  • Each code is on a separate line in the list and comparatively requires only a small memory space in the user memory 16.
  • the space required per line is reduced to a memory addressable by the microprocessor with a number of memory cells corresponding to the number of digits in a suitable number system translated codes.
  • the machine language in binary code converted hexadecimal code used. In the simplest case, one byte, ie 8. 8 bits, is sufficient per line.
  • the reference list 610 is still empty and the event list 500 contains in a first line (in the first memory location) only one code 255 for the list end.
  • a first date code, the date and possibly the hour or more accurate time values are entered into the reference list 610 in a first storage location 611, for example.
  • the microprocessor generates the first reference code.
  • the memory location number of the first memory location 611 can be used to form a first reference code 0, for example by subtracting a constant code from the address code of the memory location.
  • the event list 500 contains four lines, namely a first line (first memory location 501) with a first date code 0 and a second line (second memory location 502) default value Code 1 for the postage value 1.10 DM, a third line (third memory location 503) with a one-piece code 240 and a fourth line (fourth memory location 504) with a code 255 for the end of the list.
  • the figure 3d-3 shows the state in the user memory 16 after the settlement for the tenth franking with the postage value of 1.10 DM.
  • the event list still contains only four lines with a first date code, a default value of 1 for the postage value of 1.10 DM, but with a ten-piece code 249 and again a code 255 for the end of the list.
  • the figure 3d-4 shows the state in the user memory 16 after billing for another two frankings, but with a second standard postage value of 3.00 DM.
  • the reference list is after the line "postage 110" still a second line “postage value 300 "registered.
  • the microprocessor may increment a counter to form a first default value code 1 and subsequently later a second default value code 2 which is automatically assigned in the second line to the description "postage value 300".
  • the event list now contains six lines with a first date code 0 for the date, a first default value 1 for the postage value 1.10 DM, with a ten-piece code 249, with a second default value 1 for the postage value DM 3.00, with a two-piece code 241 and again a code 255 for the end of the list.
  • Figure 3d-5 shows the state in the usage memory 16 after billing for another franking, but again with a first standard postage value of 1.10 DM. In addition, this time also a scale 22 is connected, which provides a weight value 20g.
  • the event list now contains nine lines with a first date code 0, a first default code 1 for the postage value of 1.10 DM, with a ten-part code 249, with a second default value code 2 for the postage value 3.00 DM, with a two-piece code 241, with a first standard value code 1 for the postage value 1.10 DM, with a first weight value code 3, with a one-piece code 240 and again with a code 255 for the list end.
  • the undefined events are dynamically defined during the machine runtime.
  • the assignment of code to events should be during the term of the franking machine take place automatically.
  • the events are included in the reference list only in the context of the storage mode before the franking process.
  • the reference list can contain a detailed description of the event.
  • the method provides that a change of a parameter (property) is detected as an event in the event list 500. If an event occurs, which occurred earlier, then only an entry in the event list needs to be made.
  • the entered code is also in the reference list 610 at a position pointed to by the pointer drawn in Fig. 3d-5.
  • a constant number of bytes or at least 1 byte is advantageously reserved.
  • the number of different events is preferably limited to 240. If this number is insufficient, however, then two bytes are consecutively written in an event list 500 *, the first byte having the code 254 and referring to a second reference list 620 (shown in FIG. 8). If two bytes with the code 254 follow one another, then reference is made to a third reference list 630, which is not shown for reasons of space. According to this principle, the detectable number of different events can be arbitrarily increased.
  • FIG. 2 a flow chart for the storage of usage data in the storage mode (sections 417 to 430) has been explained, which is executed within the franking mode 400.
  • the method according to the invention is not limited to this specific embodiment.
  • a storage of usage data can also take place after the completion of the franking print routine or immediately after the step 405 for determining a print request.
  • the special sequence in the memory mode is also substituted, which is explained in detail with reference to FIGS. 4 and FIGS. 7a, 7b and 7c for two variants.
  • FIG. 4 shows a flowchart for the storage of usage data according to the memory organization explained in FIG. 3c. It is assumed that a list-like storage of features.
  • the features are predetermined properties of the machine in connection with franking, in particular franking parameters and settings or errors.
  • the processing takes place after determining the current feature or its change, for example via a comparison of the already stored parameters, settings and errors with the currently stored parameters, settings and errors that have occurred for each feature in the same way.
  • a first step 420a it is determined that the "store feature" JOB is to be executed, and it branches to the first step 421a to call up a last feature M m stored in the list.
  • the comparison is made with the current feature.
  • FIG. 7b a flowchart for the storage of usage data is explained in more detail, which relates to the storage format explained with reference to FIG. It is assumed that a storage of events in an event list 500 as listed specific code with associated reference list 610. An event should now be added to the history as a result of a state change of qualitative properties.
  • the list-like storage of events in the event list relates to both qualitative and quantitative properties, the latter each having a hard-coded code associated with it.
  • the reference list 610 associated with the event list 500 contains only events related to qualitative properties and an associated code generated in a dynamic programmable dymamic process.
  • One to each Event exists at least a pair of data or code in the event list 500.
  • the one of the qualitative properties associated programmable code is entered in a first memory location 501.
  • the fixed programmable code associated with the quantitative properties is entered in a second memory location 502.
  • the storage in the event list 500 ends with the list end code stored in the third storage location 503.
  • a number of steps are executed by the microprocessor. If, within the franking mode (for example, after the billing according to step 416 in FIG. 2), a phase has been reached in the sequence that the "save event" JOB is to be executed, then in a step 417 b a call is made to the parameter list, in which a multiplicity to current properties are included.
  • a property E1 of the first kind relates to the set postage value, where the index u of the event E1u illustrates the selection of one of 1, ... u, .., w different discrete values.
  • a property E2 of the second kind relates, for example, to the set weight level.
  • a postage tariff table although a weight level is assigned a discrete postage value, further shipping parameters are included in the postage value calculation, so that the postage value can not always be deduced from the weight level.
  • the weight range is therefore divided so finely in weight levels that the concrete weight in the range of a change is detected from one to the next level.
  • a later evaluation in the data center or at the mail carrier can be used, for example, according to a statistics on user behavior to specify the grading in the postage tariff table differently.
  • a third type property E3 refers to the automatically set date for a day, which may be similarly subdivided into discrete time increments as previously described.
  • the different properties may be the same values (For example, 110 g and 10 10 10 -2 DM) assigned. They are then distinguished by their type (corresponding to a unit of measure in a physical quantity). The order of the species is arbitrary.
  • the parameter list is realized, for example, in the nonvolatile memory 5a.
  • FIG. 5 shows the basic configuration of a memory location of the parameter memory.
  • a first byte is provided for the identification "i-th ART" of a parameter type (postage, weight, date, etc., etc.) and another four bytes "u-th VALUE" for the concrete value of the parameter.
  • the discrete parameter value may assume only one of the plurality of different possible values. Each discrete value should be considered a qualitatively different property.
  • FIG. 6 shows the basic configuration of a memory location in the user memory 16 for the reference list 610.
  • a first byte is for an associated code "CODE”
  • another byte “ART” is for the identification of a parameter type (postage, weight, date, .. etc.)
  • another four bytes “VALUE” are for the specific value the parameter provided.
  • a call-up of the parameter list takes place in step 417b.
  • the evaluation of the code read out takes place in sub-step 601 by comparison with the codes which are stored in the program memory 11 in a defined manner.
  • the microprocessor now determines in sub-step 602 whether, in the event list, there has been stored on the nth memory location (line for the nth byte) a hard-coded code because of a predefined meaning.
  • point a3 is reached and branched to sub-step 603 where the one second variable j is incremented by one before then branched back to sub-step 601 to decrease the byte counter value n, thus causing the penultimate line below the end-of-list code gives 255. If it is determined in sub-step 602 that a code programmed in advance (due to non-predefined meaning) has been stored, the point a2 is reached. It this code denotes a qualitative property, which can be evaluated in the subsequent step 420b.
  • the respective second byte for the identification of a parameter type in the memory location of the reference list shown in FIG. 6 contains-each associated with a code-a characteristic value for a qualitative property "A second local variable EL is set to this characteristic value which corresponds to the qualitative property of the event code listed in the event list 500 in the nth memory location.
  • the characteristic value shall correspond to one of the types, for example the date, weight, postage, etc., etc.
  • List 610 contains, for example, the assigned characteristic value for this type for the (freely-defined) code listed in the event list 500.
  • the second local variable EL which was thus set to a characteristic value corresponding to the second byte of each memory location ( 6), now serves as an actual value
  • the characteristic value of the ith type serves as a setpoint for a comparison with the actual value of the second one local variable EL in step 420b.
  • step 421b it is now checked whether the same species was found. If so, then the process branches to step 422b.
  • step 422b the search in the reference list 610 continues to the value for which 4 bytes are reserved in memory location in third place.
  • a value of a current property from the parameter memory to which the first local variable E has been set in step 419b may now be compared in step 422b with the aforementioned value detected in the reference list 610.
  • step 420b prior to the comparison, the second local variable EL is set, the latter being set to the corresponding characteristic from the reference list 610, the characteristic being assigned to the code which is in the nth memory location in the event list 500 is read.
  • step 421b a check is made one by one, and then, in step 421b, whether one of the previously acquired characteristics matches the called current property in kind. If this is the case, then the values can still differ for the same type and it is again branched to step 422b.
  • step 422b in the reference list 610, the stored concrete value corresponding to the value of the variable E is searched for.
  • step 424b shows that there is a match also in terms of the value
  • step 425b increments the first run variable i by one.
  • the run variable i is thus set up in the next property type.
  • step 426b it is determined whether all k types have already been checked for which current parameter values can be detected in the parameter memory. If this is not the case, then branch back to step 419b. This backward branching provides a loop to compare all current properties with the previously stored properties.
  • the event list 500 is again searched from top to bottom for a code, the retrieved code corresponding to a type checked in step 420b for compliance with the currently relevant property type "ith ART" in step 422b, if the match is determined in step 421b, the current property value is retrieved from the parameter memory to compare with the stored property value from the reference list 610. However, if inequality is detected in step 424b, a branch is made to point c2 for a second entry into subroutine 700. Now, the microprocessor starts the subroutine 700, which will be explained in more detail with reference to FIG. 7c.
  • Figure 7c shows the flowchart subroutine 700 of Figure 4b which is at least suitable for storing the code for the new property in the event list 500 or for giving at least one warning if the list is full.
  • the memory location number reached is first queried in accordance with the last stored freely defined code and compared with a desired number. If the target number has not yet been reached, then the reference list 610 is not yet full. Now branch to sub-step 702 to complete the reference list. Otherwise, when the target number is reached, a "list full" warning is generated in sub-step 706 and branched to the point g ( Figure 2).
  • Usage information related to a new event is assigned a freely definable code by the microprocessor, the association being stored in a reference list.
  • the reference list can be stored in a second memory area of the user memory 16 or on reserved memory locations 16-0n + 1 in the first memory area.
  • the codes related to the number of items are fixed, with each new event an assigned piece number counter is set to a value of one and in the event list a corresponding one-piece code is entered.
  • the firmly defined code, which are not freely definable and not the reference list can be removed, are stored in the program memory 11 before.
  • the invention is not limited to any of the present embodiments.
  • the storage of usage data may be at any point in the usage memory and in any suitable form, such as variable length data sets. Although cumulative storage significantly reduces storage space requirements, it is not necessary with a very large amount of free space available. On this basis, a number of other variants within the scope of the claims conceivable. Thus, obviously other embodiments of the invention can be developed or used, starting from the same basic idea of the invention, which are encompassed by the appended claims.

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  1. Disposition pour le stockage de données via l'utilisation d'un terminal, comprenant au moins une mémoire et un microprocesseur, tandis qu'une mémoire d'utilisation non volatile (16) est connectée avec le microprocesseur (6) pour le stockage de données d'utilisation précédentes, caractérisée en ce que le microprocesseur est programmé pour :
    - entrer dans un mode de mémoire pour le stockage de données d'utilisation conformément à une utilisation précédente,
    - entrer dans un mode de communication, tandis que le microprocesseur (6) est programmé dans un mode de communication pour la transmission de données de la mémoire d'utilisation (16) à une mémoire à distance (31), tandis que la transmission des données a lieu, afin d'effectuer une exploitation statistique des données d'utilisation à distance du terminal et,
    - pour la réinitialisation de la mémoire d'utilisation (16) en reconstituant la capacité de mémoire prédéterminée dans une mémoire d'utilisation (16), après que la transmission des données s'effectue.
  2. Disposition, selon la spécification 1, caractérisée en ce que, le microprocesseur (6) est programmé dans le mode de mémoire pour :
    - la comparaison des données actuelles d'utilisation avec les données d'utilisation déjà stockées,
    - le stockage d'un nouvel enregistrement logique avec des données d'utilisation dans la mémoire d'utilisation dans un ordre historique selon l'utilisation, lorsque ces données d'utilisation sont modifiées ou de nature différente par rapport aux données d'utilisation se trouvant dans l'enregistrement logique stocké précédemment,
    - la formation d'un compteur pour des données d'utilisation, ainsi que pour
    - l'incrémentation du compteur et remplacement des données correspondantes d'un enregistrement logique déjà stocké par de nouvelles données, qui renvoie la position du compteur incrémenté, lorsque les données actuelles d'utilisation sont inchangées ou similaires par rapport à l'enregistrement logique déjà stocké.
  3. Disposition, selon la spécification 1, caractérisée en ce que, la mémoire d'utilisation (16) est disposée à part d'une mémoire non volatile (5a, 41) pour le registre postal et, en ce que, des données d'utilisation sont enregistrées indépendamment des données de calculation.
  4. Disposition, selon les spécifications 1 et 2, caractérisée en ce que, le microprocesseur est programmé, afin d'organiser l'affectation des emplacements de mémoire pour les données de l'enregistrement logique en processus courant, conformément aux résultats produits, tandis que les données de l'enregistrement logique comprennent au moins une valeur paramétrique et un nombre de pièces.
  5. Disposition, selon les spécifications de 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce que, le terminal est une machine à affranchir le courrier avec un microprocesseur (6), lequel est programmé pour entrer à l'intérieur d'une procédure de système (200) et dans une procédure d'entrée/sortie (209) et dans un mode d'affranchissement (400), tandis que la procédure d'entrée (209) pour la saisie de données actuelles d'utilisation via le microprocesseur de l'affranchisseuse dans une mémoire non volatile (5a) comprend des étapes d'invitation pour l'entrée d'au moins une information actuelle d'utilisation concernant la valeur d'affranchissement, le poids et l'expédition, et tandis que le mode d'affranchissement (400) comprend le mode de mémoire (417 - 430, 417a - 430a ou 417 - 430b) pour le stockage cumulatif de l'information actuelle d'utilisation avec les informations d'utilisation précédentes.
  6. Disposition, selon les spécifications de 1 à 5, caractérisée en ce que, la mémoire non volatile (5a) est une mémoire paramétrique, dans laquelle les caractéristiques de type et de valeur de l'information d'utilisation actuelle sont saisies comme données via un microprocesseur (6) de la machine à affranchir le courrier, lors de la saisie de données d'utilisation actuelles, en ce que, la mémoire d'utilisation (16) comprend des zones pour l'enregistrement d'une liste des évènements (500) et d'une liste de références (610), en ce qu'une mémoire de programme (11) est connectée avec le microprocesseur (6) et comprend un programme pour le mode de mémoire (417 - 430), par lequel le microprocesseur (6) est programmé. Caractérisé en ce que, des codes sont enregistrés dans la liste de références (610) et dans la liste des évènements (500), tandis que des données descriptives du type et de la valeur d'une caractéristique classée dans la liste de références (610) sont mémorisées dans chaque code, en ce qu'un des codes est retiré de la liste des évènements (500) pour comparer les données d'utilisation actuelles avec les données d'utilisation stockées par cumulation, en ce que, les données classées relatives au type sont détectées et sont comparées avec les données actuelles du moment prélevées de la mémoire paramétrique (5a) aux types de particularité des données d'utilisation actuelles, tandis que, lorsque les données appelées sur le type sont différentes, un autre code de la liste des évènements (500) est à chaque fois retiré jusqu'à ce que tous ces codes de la liste des évènements (500) aient été lus, se rapportant aux caractéristiques de qualité et, étant en rapport avec les données actuelles du moment sur les types de propriétés des données d'utilisation actuelles, tandis que le microprocesseur (6) génère un nouveau code, lors d'une différence des données sur le type, et l'inscrit dans la liste de références (610) et dans la liste des évènements (500), tandis que les données sur le type et sur la valeur de la nouvelle caractéristique classées dans le code sont aussi enregistrées dans la liste de références (610). Le microprocesseur (6) effectue alors un contrôle d'égalité, lors d'une égalité du type et encore de la valeur, en s'appuyant sur les données enregistrées dans la liste de références (610), avec les données relatives à la valeur de la propriété actuelle. Il génère aussi un nouveau code, en cas d'inégalité de valeur de la nouvelle propriété, enregistre dans la liste de références (610) les données sur le type et la valeur de la nouvelle caractéristique classée dans le code et relève le nouveau code ainsi qu'un code pièce unitaire s'y attenant dans la liste des évènements (500), laquelle est fermée avec un code de fin de liste. Toutefois, lors d'égalité, le microprocesseur (6) incrémente uniquement un compteur de pièces (Z) et recouvre un code actuel de pièces correspondant dans la liste des évènements (500) avec le code de pièces actuel.
  7. Procédé pour le stockage de données via l'utilisation d'un terminal,
    caractérisé par :
    - une mise à disposition d'une mémoire d'utilisation (16) avec une capacité prédéterminée de mémoire disponible,
    - une utilisation d'un terminal avec saisie des données d'utilisation actuelles, qui sont classées au moins dans une information d'utilisation, tandis qu'un établissement de la caractéristique actuelle d'une utilisation ou d'un changement est effectué en comparant des données actuelles d'utilisation correspondantes avec des données d'utilisation déjà enregistrées, et par
    - un stockage d'un nouvel enregistrement logique avec des données d'utilisation dans la mémoire d'utilisation (16), lorsque celles-ci sont modifiées ou inégales par rapport à l'enregistrement logique stocké précédemment,
    - une incrémentation d'un compteur et remplacement des données correspondantes d'un enregistrement logique déjà stocké précédemment par de nouvelles données, lesquelles reflètent la position du compteur incrémenté, lorsque les données d'utilisation actuelles sont inchangées ou égales par rapport à l'enregistrement logique déjà stocké précédemment,
    - une transmission de données des données d'utilisation de la mémoire d'utilisation (16) à une mémoire à distance et
    - réinnitialisation de la mémoire d'utilisation (16) pour la restauration dans la mémoire d'utilisation (16) de la capacité prédéterminée de mémoire restée disponible
  8. Procédé, selon la spécification 7, caractérisé en ce que la mémoire à distance est une mémoire (31) d'une centrale de données à distance et, en ce que les données d'utilisation stockées dans la mémoire d'utilisation (16) du terminal sont chargées dans la mémoire (31) de la centrale de données tout de suite avant ou pendant un débordement de mémoire.
  9. Procédé, selon les spécifications de 7 à 8, caractérisé en ce qu'après la transmission et le stockage des données d'utilisation dans la mémoire à distance durant un pas d'interrogation (211) d'une procédure de système (200) il est vérifié que, les données ont été diffusées, qu'un code de fin de liste est placé sur un emplacement de mémoire au début d'une liste des évènements au pas (213), dans le cadre de la réinitialisation de la mémoire d'utilisation (16) et qu'un texte d'affichage est ensuite généré au pas (215), avant qu'il ne soit branché à l'état initial sous le point s de la procédure système (200).
  10. Procédé, selon la spécification 7, caractérisé en ce que, dans la centrale de données, l'élaboration d'une statistique quelconque s'effectue via l'utilisation d'un terminal après chargement de ces données d'utilisation de la mémoire d'utilisation (16) dans la mémoire à distance (31), lesquelles ont été mémorisées de manière non volatile dans la mémoire d'utilisation, durant l'utilisation du terminal.
  11. Procédé, selon la spécification 7, caractérisé en ce qu'un processus de mise en mémoire historique compact est implémenté pour le stockage dans la mémoire d'utilisation, tandis qu'un stockage en ligne ou un remplacement de données d'un enregistrement logique s'effectue durant l'utilisation d'un terminal avec saisie de données actuelles, qui sont classées dans au moins une information d'utilisation ainsi qu'en ce qu'une compression de données est exécutée par modem, lors de la transmission des données à la centrale de données.
  12. Procédé, selon la spécification 9, caractérisée en ce qu'un code de fin de liste est placé sur un emplacement de mémoire au début d'une liste des évènements au pas (213), dans le cadre de la réinitialisation de la mémoire d'utilisation (16) et, les données d'utilisation enregistrées auparavant sont effacées sur les emplacements restants de mémoire.
  13. Procédé, selon la spécification 9, caractérisé en ce qu'un enregistrement logique avec données d'utilisation dans la mémoire d'utilisation comprend au moins un code et en ce qu'un stockage de codes en ligne s'effectue, qui sont basés sur les informations d'utilisation.
  14. Procédé, selon la spécification 13, caractérisé en ce qu'une information d'utilisation est une caractéristique quantitative et/ou un nombre de pièces.
  15. Procédé, selon la spécification 14, caractérisé en ce qu'un code définissable librement est classé dans une information d'utilisation, basée sur un nouvel évènement, tandis que le classement est enregistré dans une liste de références, en ce que les codes, basés sur le nombre de pièces, sont définis de manière fixe, tandis qu'un compteur du nombre de pièces classé est aligné à une valeur un, lors de chaque nouvel évènement et un code pièce unitaire correspondant est inscrit dans la liste des évènements.
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