EP1062638B1 - Systeme et procede de gestion de correspondence - Google Patents
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- the invention relates generally to postage meters (franking machines), and relates particularly to systems in which items of correspondence are to be dispatched by any of several different means.
- the application claims priority from US application no. 60/078,487, filed March 18, 1998, which application is incorporated herein by reference to the extent permitted by the designated and elected States hereto.
- the accounting means includes an ascending register indicative of postage that has been printed, and typically a piece counter indicative of the number of mail pieces that have been printed. In many countries including the United States, the accounting means also includes a descending register indicative of the amount of postage value available to be printed.
- the printing means is used to print postage indicia on mail pieces, typically by a relief printing die with characteristic fluorescent ink.
- Such postage meters have worked exceeding well for decades and have proven to be reliable. While it is technically possible to print postal indicia for which no money has been paid to the post office, such fraud is relatively infrequent because it would be readily detectable through physical inspection of the meter for tampering.
- the postage meter saves the postal authority from much of the work of printing, stocking and selling postage stamps.
- the postage meter user can simply print the new postal amount, while the stamp user must queue up at the post office to purchase stamps in the new denomination.
- nonsecure printers such as laser printers, ink-jet printers, and thermal transfer printers.
- nonsecure printers because the printer itself is not in a secure housing and because the communications channel linking the printer to other apparatus is nonsecure.
- the proposed anti-fraud measure is to store information within the indicia which would permit detecting fraud.
- the indicium would include not only human-readable text such as a date and a postage amount, but would also include machine-readable information, for example by means of a two-dimensional bar code.
- the machine-readable information would be cryptographically signed, and would include within it some information intended to make fraud more difficult.
- the information would typically include an identification of the postage meter license (granted by the meter manufacturer or by the postal authorities, depending on the country), an indication of the number of mail pieces franked, the postage amount, a postal security device identifier about which more will be said later, the date and time, and a zip code or post code of the mail piece addressee.
- Yet another drawback is that it is commonplace for a mail piece to get smudged on the way to the post office or within the post office, prior to the authentication scanning by the post office. If the post office is unable to read the bar code, the post office has to decide whether to return the mail piece to the sender, or risk delivering a mail piece bearing a counterfeit indicium.
- the typical apparatus for printing such "encrypted indicia" postage includes what is called a postal security device or PSD.
- PSD has a secure housing, and within the secure housing are the accounting registers as well as a cryptographic engine.
- the engine permits cryptographic authentication and signing for communication with an external device such as the computer of the meter manufacturer or of the post office.
- the engine also permits creation of postal indicia which contain specified information and which are cryptographically signed.
- the PSD may well be physically small as compared to traditional postage meters.
- the PSD may be the size of a PCMCIA card or the size of a smart card.
- the memory must be protected against inadvertent damage due to malfunction of the processor of the PSD, for example as set forth in US Pat. No. 5668973, Protection system for critical memory information owned by the same assignee as the assignee of the present application.
- the PSD must handle power failure in a graceful fashion, for example as set forth in US Pat. No. 5712542, Postage meter with improved handling of power failure , also owned by the same assignee as the assignee of the present application.
- the printer may preferably be that described in PCT publication no. 97-46389, Printing apparatus, also owned by the same assignee as the assignee of the present application. While it has been proposed that the PSD contain a real-time clock which is keeping time continuously, desirably this requirement may be avoided as described in PCT publication no. 98-08325, Printing postage with cryptographic clocking security, also owned by the same assignee as the assignee of the present application. PSDs can form part of a network with multiple printers as described in PCT publication no. 98-13790, Proof of postage digital franking, also owned by the same assignee as the assignee of the present application.
- US 5 586 037 discloses an automated self-service mail processing system with integrated weighing system.
- the system also has email and fax capabilities.
- a system for management of correspondence comprising a processor having a user interface, a printer, a fax modem, a simple mail transport protocol server and a postal security device, wherein said processor is communicatively coupled with the printer, said printer disposed to print adhesive labels, letters and envelopes, said processor also communicatively coupled with the fax modem, said processor also communicatively coupled with the simple mail transport protocol server; said system further comprising means receiving information indicative of items of correspondence to be delivered, the information regarding each item further indicative of at least one means of delivery for said item; said system further comprising means responsive to the information indicative of the at least one means of delivery for causing transmission by fax via the fax modem in the event that the information indicative of the at least one means of delivery indicates fax, for causing transmission by email via the simple mail transport protocol server in the event that the information indicative of the at least one means of delivery indicates email, and in the event that the information .indicative of the at least one means of delivery indicates mail, causing the postal
- the system according to the invention is typified by a personal computer 50, shown in Fig. 2.
- the personal computer 50 receives, or has stored within it, information about a number of items of correspondence to be sent, all omitted for clarity in Fig. 2.
- the computer 50 has at least one printer 53, and preferably has more than one printer, one optimized for printing on paper sheets, and another optimized for printing on label stock and envelopes.
- the computer 50 has a postal security device 52, as discussed above.
- the postal security device 52 has nonvolatile memory and a cryptographic engine, and under stored program control it is able to generate digitally printed postal indicia which will be accepted by the postal authorities for payment of postage.
- the indicia are printed on the printer 53.
- the computer 50 has connected with it, or includes, a Simple Mail Transport Protocol(SMTP) server 54, and a fax server or fax modem 55.
- the user controls the computer 50 through a user interface 51.
- SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol
- a user interface This may be a keyboard, a touch screen, or other user input device.
- the computer 50 handles input requests, formulates desired outputs, and manages the system with respect to configuration parameters such as departmental charge-backs.
- the data routing can take a document-printing path 2, a high-volume production printing path 3, a label printing path 4, a fax path 5, and an email path 6.
- chargeback is done for example in box 9.
- the correspondence and envelope may be typed in box 10.
- a number of moderate-capacity printers are employed so that if one breaks, the load may be distributed among other printers.
- the computer 50 passes the correspondence to a fax modem, or to a fax server 55, which may be integral with the computer 50 or may be separate from it.
- the correspondence is sent by fax.
- the computer 50 passes the correspondence to a simple mail-transport protocol server 54, which may be integral with the computer 50 or may be separate from it.
- the correspondence is sent by email over a TCP/IP link, omitted for clarity in Fig. 2.
- One of the chief drawbacks of the cryptographically signed postal indicium is that the postal service may require that the indicium be based in part on a Zip code or post code of the associated mail piece. This leads to great difficulty in the event that an indicium and its associated addressed envelope or package become mismatched.
- the postal authorities will assume that the sender is engaged in mail fraud, for example trying to use a single indicium more than once on more than one mail piece.
- the address and postage labels are desirably printed "two-up", side by side or adjacent in the label printer. This permits automated equipment, or a human user, to place the two labels on a mail piece (e.g. an envelope or package) at about the same time, thus reducing the likelihood of a mismatch.
- the invention comprises a system for management of correspondence, comprising a processor 50 having a user interface 51, said processor 50 communicatively coupled with a printer 53, said printer disposed to print adhesive labels, said processor 50 also communicatively coupled with a fax modem 55, said processor also communicatively coupled with a simple mail transport protocol server 54; said system further comprising means receiving information indicative of items of correspondence to be delivered, the information regarding each item further indicative of at least one means of delivery for said item; said system further comprising means responsive to the information indicative of the at least one means of delivery for causing transmission by fax via the fax modem 55 in the event that the information indicative of the at least one means of delivery indicates fax, for causing transmission by email via the simple mail transport protocol server 54 in the event that the information indicative of the at least one means of delivery indicates email, and in the event that the information indicative of the at least one means of delivery indicates mail requiring labels, causing the postal security device 52 to generate a postage indicium, and causing the printer 53 to print the post
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- Système de gestion de correspondance, comportant un processeur ayant une interface utilisateur, une imprimante, un modem de télécopie, un serveur de protocole de transfert simplifié de message et un dispositif de sécurité postale, dans lequel ledit processeur est couplé en communication avec l'imprimante, ladite imprimante est agencée pour imprimer des étiquettes adhésives, des lettres et des enveloppes, ledit processeur est aussi couplé en communication avec le modem de télécopie, ledit processeur est aussi couplé en communication avec le serveur de protocole de transfert simplifié de message; ledit système comportant de plus des moyens pour recevoir des informations représentatives d'articles de correspondance à distribuer, les informations concernant chaque article étant de plus représentatives d'un moyen de distribution pour ledit article ; ledit système comportant de plus des moyens répondant aux informations représentatives dudit au moins un moyen de distribution pour provoquer la transmission par télécopie au moyen du modem de télécopie dans le cas où l'information représentative dudit au moins un moyen de distribution préconise la télécopie, pour provoquer la transmission par courrier électronique par l'intermédiaire du serveur de protocole de transfert simplifié de message dans le cas où l'information représentative dudit au moins un moyen de distribution indique le courrier électronique et, dans le cas où l'information représentative dudit au moins un moyen de distribution préconise le courrier électronique, déclencher le dispositif de sécurité postal pour produire un montant d'affranchissement, et provoquer l'impression par l'imprimante du montant d'affranchissement, et dans lequel le système comporte de plus des moyens pour insérer des lettres imprimées dans des enveloppes associées et fermer lesdites enveloppes.
- Système selon la revendication 1 dans lequel, dans le cas où l'information représentative dudit au moins un moyen de distribution préconise un courrier nécessitant des étiquettes, le système imprime une étiquette d'adresse en réponse aux informations représentatives de l'article à distribuer, ainsi que l'étiquette portant le montant d'affranchissement.
- système selon la revendication 1 dans lequel, dans le cas où l'information représentative dudit au moins un moyen de distribution préconise un courrier nécessitant des étiquettes, le système imprime le montant d'affranchissement sur une étiquette.
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