EP2330563A1 - Verfahren zur Sicherung der Frankierung mittels eines Telekommunikationsnetzes - Google Patents

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EP2330563A1
EP2330563A1 EP10189861A EP10189861A EP2330563A1 EP 2330563 A1 EP2330563 A1 EP 2330563A1 EP 10189861 A EP10189861 A EP 10189861A EP 10189861 A EP10189861 A EP 10189861A EP 2330563 A1 EP2330563 A1 EP 2330563A1
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Fabien Chatte
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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
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00016—Relations between apparatus, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office, in a franking system
    • G07B17/0008—Communication details outside or between apparatus
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00016—Relations between apparatus, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office, in a franking system
    • G07B17/0008—Communication details outside or between apparatus
    • G07B2017/00112—Wireless
    • 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
    • G07B2017/00709—Scanning mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00717—Reading barcodes

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  • the present invention relates exclusively to the field of mail processing and more particularly relates to a method of securing postage effected through a telecommunications network.
  • TPE very small company
  • An alternative that does not apply to parcels may be to purchase pre-stamped envelopes, but these cover only standard basic fare mail.
  • the theft of the portable communication device or the SIM card it contains no longer allows the thief to obtain a postage without having previously made the payment.
  • the registration of this secret code in a graphic form directly on the mail item also allows the postal administration, in case of copy of the unique identification number carried by the article of mail by an usurper, check which item has been cleared by the account holder and therefore reject the other counterfeit item.
  • the registration operation of said personal secret code consists in forming a graphic symbol in a delimited space of said mail article or in writing a string of characters in a delimited space of said mail article.
  • the acquisition operation of said personal secret code and said unique identification number consists of a digital capture by said portable communication device of said user.
  • the operation of sending said personal secret code and said unique identification number from the communication device portable device comprises sending an SMS message comprising at least said personal secret code and said unique identification number.
  • the operation of comparing said personal secret codes is performed in knowledge of the call number of said portable communication device.
  • the invention also relates to a portable communication device for implementing the method of securing postage advantageously constituted by one of the following devices: a mobile or portable phone, a smartphone or personal digital assistant communicating, a computer communicating laptop.
  • the invention also relates to a computer program comprising code instructions for carrying out the steps of the method of securing postage when it is executed on the aforementioned portable communication device.
  • the figure 1 illustrates an example of network architecture necessary for the implementation of the method of securing postage according to the invention. It relies on the use of a portable communication device 10 which is used to proceed, prior to any operation franking, the seizure of different codes carried by an article of mail 12 which we wish to ensure the shipment via any postal box 16 of the postal administration.
  • article of mail we mean not only an envelope but also a label to be stuck on any type of package to be shipped.
  • this mail item is previously provided with a unique identification number 12A and a free space 12B disposed below this number and preferably delimited by a frame for Secret code registration by the sender of the mail item (the user).
  • the identification number 12A preferably sequential or non-removable random type, which was printed during the process of creating the mail item, which guarantees the print quality, is unique so that two articles courier can not under any circumstances bear the same number. It is important to note that unlike a stamp or postage stamp of a postage meter, this number does not represent any postage amount and therefore does not contain any monetary value.
  • this unique identification number is advantageously in the form of a high-capacity coding code for numeric or alphanumeric data and error corrections, such as two-dimensional bar codes, the most known are: Aztec code, Codablock, Code one, Code 16K, Code 49, data matrix, PDF 417, QR Code or Supercode.
  • the high coding capacity of this type of code (up to 4296 characters for the most efficient) allows it to include not only the identification number but also other information related to the mail item. , as a format reference when it concerns an envelope or a manufacturer's number and a country code, as recommended by the EPC standard (electronic Product Code) developed by the eponymous standardization organization.
  • the free space 12B may for example consist of a set of empty boxes that will be blackened by the user according to a predefined scheme to form a unique graphic symbol representative of the secret code of the user.
  • a set of ten boxes as illustrated will define 1024 different secret codes.
  • the free space can be a blank area delimited by a simple frame in which the user will directly enter his secret code in the form of a numeric code or preferably alphanumeric.
  • the portable communication device is connected to a remote computer server 18 preferably belonging to a franking service provider, the computer server itself being able to be put in contact with a server.
  • the postal administration 20 and possibly with a server of a telephone operator 22 ensuring if necessary the debit of a franking credit directly on the telephone account which may be held with him the user of the portable communication device.
  • the portable communication device 10 is preferably any data processing device enabling long distance wireless communication through a terrestrial or satellite wireless telecommunications network (such as GSM, GPRS, UMTS, WiMax, etc. networks. ) as a mobile or mobile phone, a smartphone or personal digital assistant communicating or a communicating laptop. According to the embodiment envisaged, it may comprise a digital capture device 10A, such as a digital camera or a two-dimensional bar code reader.
  • a digital capture device 10A such as a digital camera or a two-dimensional bar code reader.
  • the computer server 18 can integrate one or more computer central units comprising one or more databases and its control and management are conventionally provided by one or more computer terminals (not shown).
  • the server of the postal administration 20 has a similar structure with one or more bases data, including a database of user identification numbers and secret codes.
  • the server 22 of the telephone operator also has a similar structure with one or more databases, including a customer database integrating accounting data.
  • the figure 2 shows a flowchart illustrating the various steps of the method for securing postage effected by a user through a telecommunications network.
  • a registration phase is first carried out with a franking service provider, this registration being preferably done in a first step 100, via the telecommunications network, by accessing the computer server 18 of this provider.
  • a recording can also be done by mail or directly from an office of this supplier, this registration consisting in the opening and the creation of a customer account involving the communication of the identity of the user. and that of the telephone number from which the connection to the service will then be made by this user.
  • the service provider will communicate to the user, in a next step 102, a personal secret code enabling him to secure his postage.
  • This franking phase begins, in a step 104, by the affixing of this personal secret code in the space provided for this purpose on the pre-printed mail item he wishes to ship.
  • a next step 106 he will then click on the icon of the postage application preinstalled on his portable communication device (if not pre-installed, this application will be provided (or downloaded) by the service provider during his recording) and as is known, via the display screen of its portable communication device, choose the postage service or the amount of postage desired.
  • This access to the application will also automatically activate the digital capture function of the portable communication device which will allow the user with the digital capture means 10A to enter, in a step 108, an image of the bar code 12A and of the personal secret code 12B affixed to the pre-printed mail article, the validation of the capture of this image by the action on a shooting button (not shown) of the portable communication device, causing the immediate decoding of the code to entered bars, that is to say the extraction of the unique identification number contained in this barcode, and the personal secret code if it appears in a graphic form (blackened boxes for example).
  • the portable communication device then goes into a step 110 send to the computer server 18 of the franking service provider, for example in the form of a short message (SMS), the data enabling the postage amount to be determined but also the unique identification number and the personal secret code previously extracted so that it simultaneously records them in its database, in a new step 112 with the call number of the portable communication device that allowed this sending (obtained conventionally on the basis of a number recognition service such as " Calling Line Identification Presentation ".)
  • the franking service provider can then, in a step 114, verify that the user is one of his registered customers and that the personal secret code communicated corresponds to this customer (in the contrary case the communication is interrupted) and to confirm him in re turn the data of his postage in a step 116. Once this confirmation received, the user can without further formality, in a terminal step 118, go to deposit his article of mail in a post office box after having carried the address of the recipient as illustrated in the figure 1 (of course if it has not been done before).
  • the computer server 18 of the franking service provider will transfer to the server 20 of the postal administration, all the data relating to the operations carried out during the day or, more simply, give him access rights to all of this data on his own server.
  • any user can proceed very simply to the dispatch of any article of mail, envelope or parcel, to all destinations without having to go to an office of the postal administration, the number of unique identification (which replaces the stamp or the postage stamp of a franking machine which it plays the role although having no monetary value) on each item of mail secured by the personal secret code of the user being sufficient for the postal administration to carry out a check of this mail item.
  • the postal administration will perform, in a step 120, an optical reading of the mail article to extract, in a step 122 , on the one hand the unique identification number and on the other hand the personal secret code and then from this identification number access in the database of the supplier of the franking service (or in his own database depending on whether or not the supplier has communicated the contents of its database), to find the associated secret code, compare it with the one read on the mail article and thus determine whether the mail item is coming from a registered user (step 124), a prerequisite for the distribution of this article of mail by the postal administration in the terminal step 126.
  • the postal administration will calculate the increased payment which will have to be made by the recipient to receive his article of mail.
  • this number is a simple alphanumeric code. formed of a string of one or more tens of alphanumeric characters machine readable by means of an OCR reader or simply simply entered directly by the user on the keyboard of his portable communication device.

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