EP2000986A2 - Virtuelles Verteilungssystem von Postartikeln - Google Patents

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EP2000986A2
EP2000986A2 EP08157632A EP08157632A EP2000986A2 EP 2000986 A2 EP2000986 A2 EP 2000986A2 EP 08157632 A EP08157632 A EP 08157632A EP 08157632 A EP08157632 A EP 08157632A EP 2000986 A2 EP2000986 A2 EP 2000986A2
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Olivier Philip
Ruben Rico
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Quadient Technologies France SA
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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
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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
    • G07B2017/00709—Scanning mailpieces

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  • the present invention relates exclusively to the field of mail processing and more particularly relates to a distribution system and consultation of mail items for the distribution and consultation in electronic form of mail items received in the mail services. enterprises.
  • the sorting of mail in commercial or industrial enterprises is today a mainly manual process.
  • the mail service operator responsible for this task takes the mail items one by one, identifies the mention of the recipient person or service and, generally after having opened this article of mail, deposits the document or documents it contains. in the bin corresponding to that person or service. It is clear that such a completely manual process is more or less long and suffers from a productivity that is lower when the number of traps is large, when people or services change frequently, or when the operator of the service mail performs this task regularly or not (eg during a period of leave where a trainee can replace the incumbent).
  • the present invention therefore aims to overcome these disadvantages by providing real-time information of the recipient on the mail items intended for him.
  • the invention also aims to allow the recipient to decide on the use of these mail items, so as to optimize the mail distribution cycle, particularly avoiding the recipient to receive unnecessary mail items or it is better to archive.
  • the invention also aims to provide a system ensuring a very simple implementation from current scanning tools increasingly present in corporate mail rooms but without the use of complex recognition software.
  • the recipient of a scanned mail item is informed immediately by changing the counter of the dynamic dialog displayed on its screen consultation of the arrival of a mail for it.
  • This method may also include a step of displaying, on at least one other display screen associated with a computer workstation connected to said first server via said local network, images assigned to one of said bins and assigning each of them. these images to its final recipient by "depositing" said image in one of the lockers of another virtual storage cabinet associated with this final recipient and displayed on said other display screen. It may further comprise a step of qualifying each of the mail items of associating with the mail article displayed on said display screen a specific type of mail selected from the following: fast mail, mail tracking, registered mail.
  • it comprises a step of remote display, on at least one remote screen for consultation of a remote recipient connected to said local network through an external communication network, a dynamic dialogue box comprising at least a counter whose value depends on the number of images assigned to the rack of this remote recipient and accessible on said first server from said remote consultation screen via both said external communication network and said local network connecting said remote consultation screen to said first server.
  • said images accessible on said first server from said remote consultation screen or not can be saved locally, destroyed, archived, or transferred to another recipient.
  • the invention also relates to a distribution and consultation system in electronic form of mail items implementing the aforementioned method and wherein in particular said external communication network is the Internet network and the connection between said at least one remote screen of consultation and said first server is a secure link.
  • the present invention aims to optimize the mail delivery cycle in the company by reducing the time of acknowledgment of his mail by the recipient whether or not he is present in the company, limiting the risks. loss of mail and allowing better tracking of mail. It is implemented in addition to the usual equipment of the mailroom, including digitization tools existing today in most corporate mail departments and uses mail distribution and consulting software specifically developed to work in a client / server architecture. An example of a system according to the invention is thus illustrated at figure 1 .
  • an operator of the mail room after having taken mail items 10 in a mail bag, have them timestamped one by one, and if necessary have carried out a pre-sorting of these mail items, in particular to extract the confidential mails, opens the envelopes and successively introduced these envelopes and the documents they contain in a scanner 12 having an optical reader advantageously of the type allowing duplex color scans in format A4.
  • these mail items are physically deposited according to their recipient in the different mailboxes of a storage cabinet 14 of the mail room to be distributed to their recipient later, that is to say in the day or the following day (s).
  • the digitizer is connected to an internal distribution server 16 which are preferably connected two touch screens 18A, 18B for displaying for one a first graphical interface representing an image of the storage cabinet 14 and therefore comprising a predetermined number of lockers corresponding to the number of real lockers and for the other a second graphic interface successively representing the images of the envelopes and documents of each of the scanned mail items.
  • an internal distribution server 16 which are preferably connected two touch screens 18A, 18B for displaying for one a first graphical interface representing an image of the storage cabinet 14 and therefore comprising a predetermined number of lockers corresponding to the number of real lockers and for the other a second graphic interface successively representing the images of the envelopes and documents of each of the scanned mail items.
  • images of the digitally scanned mail items each of which is in the form of an image file of PDF, JPEG, TIFF, etc. type
  • the digitizer must preferably allow an automatic transfer of these image files to this internal server according to an FTP protocol or equivalent.
  • this internal distribution server can be connected in parallel to several analog scanners such as that referenced 12A.
  • An example of such a tool Scanning is given by the Scan Station 100 scanner from the American company Kodak. Note that to track digitized mail items and if necessary their subsequent archiving at an internal archive server or an external server, it will be appropriate to assign each image file transmitted to the distribution server a unique identification number.
  • This internal server is connected through an internal local network 20 of the company to different computer workstations of individual employees of the company, each integrating a client consultation of the internal server, for example those referenced 22 and 24, some of these computer workstations, for example that referenced 26, being advantageously arranged at each of the secretariats of departments or departments of the company, to provide a relay function between the internal distribution server 16 and the other positions of computer work 22, 24 and each comprising a touch screen display with a graphical interface associating on the same screen the first and second graphic interface above.
  • this computer workstation is in the form of a personal computer "all in one" as illustrated.
  • the internal server is also advantageously connected via an external communication network, for example the Internet network 28, to an external server 30 of a distributor of the mail distribution and consultation software implemented at the internal distribution server 16.
  • Remote computer workstations 32 including an internal and external server consultation web client to be in contact with these servers via the Internet are also provided to enable employees of the company in a mobility situation to access their mail. despite this situation external to the company.
  • the operation of the system according to the invention is particularly simple and essentially based on three steps illustrated in FIG. figure 2 with, in a first step 40, a scanning of each of the mail items and their transmission in the form of an image file to an internal server for storage and exploitation, in a second step 42, a distribution / allocation of these images, by an operator of the mailroom and possibly also by an intermediate recipient, by "depositing" these images in the lockers of a virtual furniture of storage and, in a final step 44, a consultation by the final recipient of images of mail articles concerning him.
  • the distribution of images is preferably performed using two touch screens 18A, 18B (but a configuration with a single widescreen is equally possible) by an operation of selecting (click on) an image appearing on the first 18A screen and to identify the recipient, for example the image of an envelope 50, then select on the second screen 18B one of the lockers 52 virtual storage cabinet in which the envelope and its contents must be "deposited And finally to validate this choice by a "click" on an assignment confirmation button 54 present for example at the bottom of this second screen, this validation having the further effect of causing, as will be described further, an alert the recipient to which this bin is assigned.
  • the operator When selecting the mail item, the operator will advantageously qualify this article of mail, that is to say a classification of it among several types of mail, without this list is limiting: fast mail, courier tracking or registered mail for example.
  • This ranking is performed by selecting by a "click" on one of the three icons 58, 60, 62 associated with these three types of mail present for example at the top of this first screen.
  • this intermediate recipient When the recipient is not the final recipient of the mail item but for example a department or department of the company, this intermediate recipient whose computer workstation 26 is then advantageously provided with a touch screen display will in turn be responsible for making a virtual distribution of mail that exclusively concern its department or department and this time, as illustrated by the figure 4 preferably by a simple drag-and-drop operation, consisting of, at its single graphical interface, selecting an image of a mail item 64 and move it from its original location to another location corresponding to the recipient's bin 66, so as to assign each employee of his department or department mail items that are intended for him own.
  • the graphic interface of the touch screen 18A allowing access to mail to be distributed is essentially divided into two display areas: one with a reduced format, under a form of thumbnails, the various images 80, 82 forming a specific mail article and the other comprising, in a format more directly readable by the operator, one of these 50 images having been selected by the operator.
  • On the side of each of these display areas are arranged control areas with devices 84, 86 known as "elevators" and allowing a fast scrolling images or thumbnails constituting each display areas and with, at the bottom of the screen, image change buttons 88, 90 make it possible, as is known, to go from one image to another or go directly to the last image.
  • a consultation screen deported or not, from his computer workstation 22, 24, 32.
  • a dynamic dialog box 102 whose update is performed continuously by a periodic and automatic connection with the distribution server 16 on which the number of images is captured.
  • this dynamic dialog box has indeed three icons 104, 106, 108 which are associated three individual counters 110, 112, 114 each corresponding to one of the three types of aforementioned mail and whose value evolves accordingly.
  • mail items deposited in his virtual locker By a "click" on the icon concerned, the recipient displays a consultation window 120 ( figure 6 ) in which he can then, in a secure mode, take notice of all the mail items intended for him.
  • the images are not transmitted to the recipient, who simply receives a link to access these images on the internal server or, preferably, on the computer workstation 26 of his computer. secretariat to which this internal server will previously advantageously send a copy. This access is possible both for an employee of the company via the internal local network 20 and for an external employee via the Internet 28.
  • this consultation window may have several display areas, one 122 displaying a succession of thumbnails different images forming a specific mail item, the other 124 viewing one of these images selected by the final recipient, for example an invoice as illustrated, the last area 126 being a control area on which appear the different possibilities of action of the final recipient on the mail piece.
  • this final recipient can thus naturally take knowledge one by one of his mail items by "clicking" on the displacement buttons 130, 132 front and rear, but he can also destroy the article of mail consulted, archive it on the server external 30 (or any other internal server with an archiving function) or send it to another recipient by "clicking" respectively buttons 134, 136, 138 or simply save a copy on his computer workstation by action on the local recording icon 144.

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