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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8073782 | Advanced crypto round dater There is provided a cryptographic round dater and its method of use. By capturing customer profile information and encoding the information on a label affixed to the customer's submitted mailpiece, fraudulent or criminal use of the mail may be deterred by providing ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8046304 | Franking method and mail transport system with central postage accounting In a franking method and a mail transport system, a franking image is calculated before generation thereof on a mail piece. The franking image includes a franking image key, and for each new franking image, the franking image key therefor is derived from a predecess... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041645 | Document security utilizing color gradients The present invention includes apparatus and methods for printing and verifying postage stamps on demand via a personal postage stamp printer. The indicium by which the stamp is printed includes a color stripe and a data field including authentication data that corr... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7941378 | Stamp testing and monitoring A method for detection of fraudulent postage indicia such as a stamp or permit marking includes an initial step of introducing a mail piece for processing on an automated facing and canceling machine and imaging the mail piece as it is being processed on the automat... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7882036 | System and method for postal indicia printing evidencing and accounting System and method for printing indicia on mailing items, such as envelopes, cards, or label media, has a host computer system connected to a postal security device. The postal security device stores postage funds and, responsive to the host computer postage requests... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7840492 | Personal funds metering system and method Methods and systems for dispensing value are described. In one configuration, a unique tangible indicia is enabled with a value and then disabled after the value is redeemed. In another configuration, a user enables a unique coded stamp and associates a postage paym... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7831518 | Systems and methods for detecting postage fraud using an indexed lookup procedure A method and system for using an indexing identifier (such as, e.g., a tracking ID or the combination of a postage vendor ID, user account, and piece count) to decrease the size of the postage indicium transmitted to an end user computer, or eliminate transmission o... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7809649 | Security and authentication of postage indicia Methods and apparatus for authentication of postage indicia are disclosed. A secret key is read from store and modified in dependence upon postage data to be printed in a postage indicium. The modified key is then utilized to generate an authentication code dependen... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7668784 | Printing of postal indicia and detection thereof The invention provides a method of detection of an imprint of a postal indicium at a location on a mail piece. The method involves utilizing a sensor to scan along a band on the mail piece to detect a sequence of transitions between light and dark reflectance areas ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7613661 | Method and system for detecting duplicate printing of indicia in a metering system A method of detecting possible duplicate printing of postal indicia including receiving image data for printing a current postal indicium, determining a number of pixels that will be printed in a defined zone of the current postal indicium, obtaining stored pixel co... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7580895 | Product protection gateway and method for checking the authenticity of products The invention relates to a product protection system whereby a product piece is provided with a product-specific identification sequence (K) which is converted into a coded check sequence (C), by means of an encoding method (F1) using a secret encoding sequen... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7567940 | Method and apparatus for on-line value-bearing item system An on-line value bearing item (VBI) printing system that includes one or more cryptographic modules and a secure database is disclosed. The secure database has the ability to recover data in case of a database failure and includes account balances and other informat... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7415441 | Printing system, apparatus and method for automatically printing records of electronic transactions A method and system for automatically printing a hard copy of transaction information relating to a transaction conducted electronically between a user-side and a supplier side. A control apparatus performs an operation of identifying a selected aspect of informatio... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409062 | Method and device for the generation of checkable forgery-proof documents The invention relates to a method and a device for the generation of checkable forgery-proof documents with an externally supplied cryptographic module, whereby the checking of authenticity of the document is carried out without using key information belonging to th... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7386791 | Method and systems for creating a digital document altered in response to at least one event A method and system are provided for creating a digital document, the digital document including content layout, additional information, and altering machine executable instructions, the method including, in response to, or subsequent to, a request or activation eve... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376598 | Method, system, and computer readable medium for shipping a package to a customer while preserving customer privacy Methods and systems consistent with the present invention facilitate in sending a package (112) to a customer at a physical address via a shipper (106) while preserving customer privacy. In accordance with an embodiment, an order is received from the c... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7360850 | Postcard printing camera printing postage paid tokens A recyclable, one-time use, print on demand, digital camera is provided which has an image sensor device for sensing an image. A processor processes the sensed image. A pagewidth printhead prints the sensed image. An ink supply arrangement supplies ink to the print ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353213 | System and method for preventing duplicate printing in a web browser A method and system for processing shipping labels having postage is described. In one configuration a hidden frame in a secure browser window is used to control printing of an actual shipping label while allowing unlimited sample printing of a sample shipping label... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353014 | Universal portable unit In general, a portable unit and method are described for storing user information for subsequent recovering. For one embodiment, the portable unit comprises a casing, an antenna and logic employed within the casing. The logic may comprise a wireless transceiver coup... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350887 | Postcard printing camera A recyclable, one-time use, print on demand, digital camera includes an image sensor device for sensing an image. A processor processes the sensed image. A pagewidth printhead prints the sensed image. An ink supply arrangement supplies ink to the print-head and the ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349115 | Method and system for tracing corporate mail A method and system that enables the accurate identification of the originator of a mail piece within a corporate mail room environment is provided. Each person that generates mail items is provided with tracking information to be placed on each mail item. The track... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347517 | Print roll for postcard printer A supply of print media for use in a digital camera having a printer for printing an image captured by the camera onto the print media, the print media being pre-marked with tokens designating that postage has been paid so that each image printed out on the print me... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343357 | System and method for printing multiple postage indicia A system and method for printing multiple postage indicia, such as an outbound and/or an associated return postage meter stamp, including a desired postage amount, onto a document or label is described. A processor based system is programmed to interact with a custo... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7334855 | Postcard printing system including postage paid print roll A postcard printing system is provided which combines a digital camera and a supply of print media. The digital camera has an image sensor device for sensing an image, processing means for processing the sensed image, a pagewidth print head for printing the sensed i... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328995 | Method and apparatus for embedding information in an image A method and apparatus for embedding information in an image during relative movement between a print medium and an ink jet print head is provided. A plurality of first lines are printed and a plurality of second lines are printed. Each of the first lines includes a... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325732 | Method and system for mail security and traceability A method and system for mail security and traceability is disclosed. Identification code producing equipment prints an encrypted code which identifies the source of the individual mail piece on each mail piece in a batch of mail. When the mailer submits the mailing ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319989 | Method and system for protection against replay of an indicium message in a closed system meter A method and system that protects against a replay attack in a closed system postage meter is provided. “Freshness” data is included along with each indicium message sent from the meter to the printer, thereby enabling the printer to detect “stale” indicium ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310608 | Authentication method, authentication system, payment system, user apparatus and recording medium containing program for conducting authentication An authentication system, program and method authenticates users who are parties to a transaction by supplying a first user with a matching key for a prospective transaction, receiving by a second user the matching key supplied to the first user; and matching the ke... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7299210 | On-line value-bearing indicium printing using DSA A method and apparatus for generating a Value Bearing Indicium (VBI) for on-line applications. A VBI is generated by hashing user information to create a message digest that is used to create a digital signature. The digital signature is combined with the user infor... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7283630 | Verification of authenticity of goods by use of random numbers Method of verifying authenticity of goods uses combination codes that have a random portion and a non-random portion that includes at least a secret portion that is encrypted. The combination codes are encrypted and may be applied to goods and checked to determine a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7273164 | Postage metering system A postage metering system for applying indicia including postage value on mail items, the system including: a keyboard for inputting information; a printer for printing indicia; an accounting module for accounting for postage value applied to mail items; and a secur... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7266531 | Mail processing system with unique mailpiece authorization assigned in advance of mailpieces entering carrier service mail processing stream A mailing list is created including destination addresses for mailpieces to be submitted to a carrier service for delivery. A unique mailpiece identifier associated with mailpieces on the mailing list is generated by the carrier or other trusted third party. The uni... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266696 | Electronic postmarking without directly utilizing an electronic postmark server Systems and methods for performing electronic postmarking of data, without directly utilizing a regular electronic postmark (EPM) server (110), including receiving data from a data acquisition device (102), generating a MicroEPM data structure (106 | 09/04/2007 |
| RE39779 | Method for the recovery of unusable printed postage A method for recovering postage for metered mail pieces that have not been posted, the method includes: placing information that uniquely identifies the mail piece in a postal indicia ; storing the information that uniquely identifies each metered mail piece at a re... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257558 | System and method for conducting a financial transaction between a sender and recipient of a mail piece In a postage payment system, a secure integrated circuit (IC) card is used to manage postage funds, and created encrypted postage indicia. Among other things, the system is capable of performing charge-back accounting of postage expenses and generating mail contents... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251632 | Machine dependent login for on-line value-bearing item system An on-line VBI printing system that includes one or more cryptographic modules and a central database. The cryptographic modules are capable of implementing a variety of required security standards. A client system provides a user friendly GUI for facilitating the i... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7236956 | Role assignments in a cryptographic module for secure processing of value-bearing items An on-line value bearing item (VBI) printing system that includes one or more cryptographic modules and a central database is disclosed. The cryptographic modules are capable of implementing the USPS Information Based Indicia Program Postal Security Device Performan... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7237111 | Method of authenticating a channel authorization using a network access device in a combined broadcasting and communication system A method of authenticating a channel authorization using a NAD (Network Access Device) in a combined broadcasting and communication system is provided. The method can process an authorization of a user independently from an AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Acc... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233930 | Postage metering system including a printer having dual print heads A postage metering system includes a computer, an authentication unit, a printer and a control system. The control system is in operative communication with the computer, the authentication unit and the printer. The authentication unit and the printer are both in op... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233929 | Postal system intranet and commerce processing for on-line value bearing system An on-line system for printing a value bearing item (VBI) that includes a client subsystem for interfacing with a user, a cryptographic device remote from the client subsystem for authenticating a plurality of users, and a server subsystem capable of communicating w... | 06/19/2007 |
