EP1760665A2 - Frankiersystem mit verteilter Abrechnung - Google Patents

Frankiersystem mit verteilter Abrechnung Download PDF

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EP1760665A2
EP1760665A2 EP06119630A EP06119630A EP1760665A2 EP 1760665 A2 EP1760665 A2 EP 1760665A2 EP 06119630 A EP06119630 A EP 06119630A EP 06119630 A EP06119630 A EP 06119630A EP 1760665 A2 EP1760665 A2 EP 1760665A2
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Fabien Chatte
Marek Krasuski
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G07B17/00314—Communication within apparatus, personal computer [PC] system, or server, e.g. between printhead and central unit in a franking machine
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G07B2017/00241—Modular design
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G07B17/00314—Communication within apparatus, personal computer [PC] system, or server, e.g. between printhead and central unit in a franking machine
    • G07B2017/00322—Communication between components/modules/parts, e.g. printer, printhead, keyboard, conveyor or central unit
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00733—Cryptography or similar special procedures in a franking system
    • G07B2017/00959—Cryptographic modules, e.g. a PC encryption board
    • G07B2017/00967—PSD [Postal Security Device] as defined by the USPS [US Postal Service]

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  • the present invention relates exclusively to the field of mail processing and more particularly relates to a postage system whose implementation is facilitated.
  • the transmission between the security accounting device and the standard printers ensuring the impression of the postal imprints, or at least their dynamic part (that which is modified with each printing), must imperatively be carried out in real time, which, from a certain franking rate, requires the use of a dedicated network to franking communications whose flow, transmission and access times can then be fully controlled.
  • the present invention therefore aims to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks by proposing a new method of franking mail items in a mail franking system comprising a central security accounting device connected to a remote server reloading credit and a plurality of local postage management modules each comprising a local security accounting device and connected to said central security accounting device through a user's local network, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: opening of a franking session, reservation by each of the local franking management modules of a pre-determined amount of franking with the central security accounting device, secure franking of the mail items by each of the modules local postage management in the limi this pre-determined predetermined postage amount, at the end of the session, sending to the central security accounting device by each of the local postage management modules the postage amount consumed during the session and the statements relating to the corresponding postage, and flow in the central device of security posting of an overall postage amount equal to the sum of the postage amounts consumed by each of the local postage management modules.
  • the difference is released to be reallocated to another local security accounting device.
  • a step of booking a new postage amount with the central security accounting device when the pre-booked predetermined postage amount is exhausted before the end of the session is preceded by a step of sending statistical statements relating to the postage paid and it is committed if the remaining postage amount is less than a predetermined amount corresponding to at most some additional impressions.
  • FIG. 1 An example of a franking system for implementing the invention is shown in FIG. 1. It is a modular franking system organized around the local area network (LAN) of a user to which a user is connected. on the one hand, a postal security accounting device 20 (PSD) and, on the other hand, different franking management modules 22-1 to 22-N for the printing of the postal imprints.
  • PSD postal security accounting device
  • These franking management modules may be general purpose computers each connected to a standard printer or franking machines having a simplified operation as will be described below.
  • the PSD can, as illustrated, be connected directly to the network but it can also be connected to the network via a management computer (not shown) or be integrated with this computer. It can also conventionally be integrated with a traditional franking machine (not shown).
  • the PSD taken separately or that of the traditional franking machine or the administration computer when they exist is connected via a dedicated link 24 (or via a communication network not shown) to a remote management server 26 of the franchisee of the franking system or the postal administration.
  • the PSD 20 called central PSD is assisted by local PSD 28-1 to 28-N associated with each of the franking management modules 22-1 at 22-N.
  • this central PSD will be provided with a complementary credit reservation function which may, within the limit of the credit granted by the remote management server, allocate to each local PSD a total amount of postage to enable the management module postage stamp associated with it to print postal impressions within the limit of this overall amount.
  • Each local PSD essentially ensures the generation of secure postal impressions from the temporary key received from the central PSD and the development of postal records which will then be communicated to this central PSD for storage. It does not have reconfiguration and credit reload data download functions running on the single central PSD and its function of accounting is limited to the management of a single downward counter initially charged by the postage amount reserved on the central PSD and decremented as and when postage effected.
  • FIG. 2 shows the various steps necessary to perform franking.
  • the first step 100 consists of the end of commissioning of the franking management module, to automatically open a session which is intended to establish an authenticated and secure connection (SSL protocol) between the local PSD of the management module. and central PSD for the purpose of reserving from the central PSD a predetermined amount of postage in a next step 102.
  • SSL protocol authenticated and secure connection
  • the central PSD goes in a step 104 to send a temporary key (session key) allowing the local PSD once this key received to sign its postal imprints in a next step 106.
  • the franking process can then take place classically within the limit of the amount of reserved postage.
  • the local PSD goes to a step 110 to send to the central PSD the detailed records relating to postage effected and to destroy the temporary key received at the beginning of the session.
  • the central PSD goes in a step 112 to store these postal statements in its secure memory and debit its postal credit the amount of total postage of the session corresponding to the sum of the amounts of postage consumed by each of the Local postage management modules. If this amount is less than the reserved amount, the difference corresponding to the remaining balance is released and can therefore be reallocated to another local DSP at step 114. Indeed, the amount initially reserved for a given franking management module can not be assigned to another module.
  • the local PSD will then address in a step 118 a statement of postage made to the central PSD and ask him to reserve a new amount of postage.
  • This margin is necessary to guarantee a continuous franking process (that is to say without interruption during the reservation) because the franking system of the invention is not a real time system, the reservation can take a few seconds, and especially if the network is congested, it may be necessary to retransmit the request several times before it reaches the central PSD.
  • it is necessary to queue these requests and the response is not immediate.
  • the invention brings many advantages to the franking process using franking management modules connected in a network.
  • the use of a local PSD for the calculation of the postal fingerprint allows a real time treatment of the printing and a limitation of the computing power.
  • the use of a central PSD allows the user to be credited in a single location at which all postage statistics relating to all postage management modules are also available.

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EP06119630A 2005-08-31 2006-08-28 Frankiersystem mit verteilter Abrechnung Revoked EP1760665B1 (de)

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