WO2003044620A3 - Systems and methods for detecting postage fraud using a unique mail piece indicium, reducing the size of postage indicia, and refunding postage - Google Patents

Systems and methods for detecting postage fraud using a unique mail piece indicium, reducing the size of postage indicia, and refunding postage Download PDF

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WO2003044620A3
WO2003044620A3 PCT/US2002/033024 US0233024W WO03044620A3 WO 2003044620 A3 WO2003044620 A3 WO 2003044620A3 US 0233024 W US0233024 W US 0233024W WO 03044620 A3 WO03044620 A3 WO 03044620A3
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postage
tracking
indicium
unique
refunding
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Scott Montgomery
Harry T Whitehouse
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Psi Systems Inc
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Priority claimed from US09/990,605 external-priority patent/US20030101143A1/en
Priority claimed from US09/990,341 external-priority patent/US7831518B2/en
Priority claimed from US09/990,625 external-priority patent/US8463716B2/en
Application filed by Psi Systems Inc filed Critical Psi Systems Inc
Priority to AU2002351501A priority Critical patent/AU2002351501A1/en
Publication of WO2003044620A2 publication Critical patent/WO2003044620A2/en
Publication of WO2003044620A9 publication Critical patent/WO2003044620A9/en
Publication of WO2003044620A3 publication Critical patent/WO2003044620A3/en

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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
    • G07B17/00435—Details specific to central, non-customer apparatus, e.g. servers at post office or vendor
    • 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
    • G07B17/00024—Physical or organizational aspects of franking systems
    • 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
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on 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
    • G07B17/00024—Physical or organizational aspects of franking systems
    • G07B2017/0004—Determining the location of mailpieces outside apparatus
    • 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
    • G07B17/00435—Details specific to central, non-customer apparatus, e.g. servers at post office or vendor
    • G07B2017/00443—Verification of mailpieces, e.g. by checking databases
    • 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
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00572—Details of printed item
    • G07B2017/0058—Printing of code
    • G07B2017/00588—Barcode
    • 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
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00612—Attaching item on mailpiece
    • 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
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00612—Attaching item on mailpiece
    • G07B2017/0062—Label
    • 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
    • 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
    • G07B2017/00741—Cryptography or similar special procedures in a franking system using specific cryptographic algorithms or functions
    • G07B2017/00758—Asymmetric, public-key algorithms, e.g. RSA, Elgamal
    • G07B2017/00766—Digital signature, e.g. DSA, DSS, ECDSA, ESIGN

Abstract

A method and system detects copy fraud by using a unique character string, e.g., a tracking ill that can be associated with a postage indicium and digitally signed to provide for a self-validating unique postage indicium. Once validated by the postal authority, the tracking ID within the unique postage indicium can be compared to the tracking ID's in all other postage indicia or to a standard tracking ID to ensure that tracking ID is indeed unique. Another improvement uses an indexing identifier (such as, e.g., a tracking ID, or a postage vendor ID, user account, and piece count) to decrease the size, or eliminate the use, of the postage indicium transmitted to an end user computer. An indexing identifier, rather than the postage indicium, is transmitted to the end user computer. Yet another improvement facilitates refunding unused postage. Information for a postage transaction, along with the tracking ID and delivery status, is stored. Unused postage exists when there is duplicative postage transactions or the mail piece was not delivered.
PCT/US2002/033024 2001-11-20 2002-10-14 Systems and methods for detecting postage fraud using a unique mail piece indicium, reducing the size of postage indicia, and refunding postage WO2003044620A2 (en)

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US09/990,605 US20030101143A1 (en) 2001-11-20 2001-11-20 Systems and methods for detecting postage fraud using a unique mail piece indicium
US09/990,341 2001-11-20
US09/990,625 2001-11-20
US09/990,341 US7831518B2 (en) 2001-11-20 2001-11-20 Systems and methods for detecting postage fraud using an indexed lookup procedure
US09/990,605 2001-11-20
US09/990,625 US8463716B2 (en) 2001-11-20 2001-11-20 Auditable and secure systems and methods for issuing refunds for misprints of mail pieces

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US6005945A (en) * 1997-03-20 1999-12-21 Psi Systems, Inc. System and method for dispensing postage based on telephonic or web milli-transactions

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