WO1997014117B1 - System and method for retrieving, selecting and printing postage indicia on documents - Google Patents
System and method for retrieving, selecting and printing postage indicia on documentsInfo
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Abstract
A system and method for printing a postage meter stamp, including a desired postage amount and a personalized postage indicia onto a label or onto a document directly. A processor based system is programmed to interact with a customer to produce individualized documents, printed address labels, and a printed postage meter stamp having in one embodiment, a customized postage indicia. The processor based system automatically calculates the postage due for a specific document, prints that postage amount as a meter stamp, interacts with the customer to generate a personalized stamp indicia, encrypts selected information into a machine readable format, and prints the information entered by the customer in a selected format, all on the document for transfer to the outside of a mailing envelope.
Claims
1. A processor based word processing system having a program running on said processor, said program operable for controlling document creation by a user giving input data and instructions to said processor, comprising: means controlled by said word processing system and responsive to input data from a user for creating a document, said document having a section thereof containing the address of a document recipient; means for establishing a transfer section on a portion of said document, wherein said transfer section contains a transfer medium; and means for printing within said transfer section postage indicia pertaining to said document recipient.
2. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein said document is a check form and wherein said document creation control program is an accounting program operable to print amounts on said check form.
3. The system as set forth in claim 2 wherein the transfer medium is a peel off restick label.
4. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein said document creation control program is a word processing program.
5. The system as set forth in claim 4 wherein said transfer medium is a peel off restick label.
6. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein said transfer medium cooperates with a juxtaposed section of a mailing envelope to create on the outside of said envelope a replica of the postage indicia printed on the document within said transfer section, said replica occurring by chemical reaction with material contained within said juxtaposed section of said envelope.
7. The system as set forth in claim 4 and wherein said system function includes: means for calculating from a page count of each said document the amount of postage to print.
8. The system as set forth in claim 4 and wherein said system further includes: means for calculating from address information contained within each said document the amount of postage to print.
9. The system as set forth in claim 4 further including: means for determining if a document being printed is a draft document; and means for inhibiting said printing of postage indicia when a determination is made that the document being printed is a draft document.
10. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein said postage indicia is customized under control of data provided on an interactive basis between said processing system and said user.
11. An automated system for generating a document, said system comprising: means controlled in part by a system user for generating selected documents; means for determining the correct postage for mailing each said selected document; means for generating a personalized postage indicia for each said selected document, wherein said generating means includes means for selecting one of a plurality of graphical configurations of postage indicia; means for printing said selected document; and means for printing said personalized postage indicia including said correct postage together with said printing of said selected document.
12. The system of claim 11 wherein said last-mentioned means includes: means for selecting one of a plurality of graphical configurations of a postage indicia; and means for personalizing said selected graphical configuration.
13. The system of claim 11 wherein said last-mentioned means includes: means for printing said personalized postage indicia including said correct postage on a label for subsequent application to a mailing envelope.
14. The system of claim 11 further including: means for automatically generating an encrypted message incorporating information entered into said system by said user, said encrypted message printed together with said printing of said correct postage.
15. The system of claim 11 wherein said means for generating a personalized postage indicia includes graphical configurations of postage indicia.
16. The system of claim 15 further including: means for allowing a system to select one of said graphical configurations for the printing of said indicia.
17. A method for generating a document under control of a general purpose processor, said method comprising the steps of: generating a desired document controlled in part by a system user; determining the correct postage for mailing said document; generating a personalized postage indicia for said document, wherein said personalized postage indicia bears a relationship to the desired document; printing said document under control of said general purpose processor; and printing said personalized postage indicia including said correct postage together with said printing of said document under control of said general purpose processor.
18. The method of claim 17 wherein said generating step further includes the step of: selecting one of a plurality of graphical configurations of a postage indicia.
19. The method of claim 18 wherein said selecting step includes the step of: personalizing said selected graphical configuration.
20. The method of claim 17 wherein said generating step further includes the step of: printing said personalized postage indicia including said correct postage on a label for subsequent transfer to a mailing envelope.
21. A processor-based system for printing a desired amount of postage for mailing a document created within said system, wherein the system is under the control of a set of instructions from a document generating program and a separate postage generating program, said system comprising: an interface program integrating said document generating program with said postage generating program; means for temporarily coupling said integrated programs to a postage storage device; means for automatically calculating a correct amount of postage for a particular one of said documents as a function of mailing parameters entered into said system and specific to said particular document; means for formatting data to be sent to a printer coupled to said system, wherein said formatted data is operable to print said correct amount of postage; means for selectively creating a postage indicia together with said correct amount of postage; and means for printing said created postage and postage indicia.
22. The system of claim 21 wherein said postage indicia creating means includes: means for receiving input instructing from a system user.
23. The system set forth in claim 21 wherein said postage indicia creating means includes: means for selecting from a plurality of preestablished postage indicia.
24. The system set forth in claim 23 wherein at least one of said preestablished postage indicia is stored in said postage generating program.
25. The system set forth in claim 24 further comprising: means controlled in part by a user for selectively modifying said at least one preestablished postage indicia in said postage generating program.
26. The system set forth in claim 21 further including: means controlled by said document generating program for printing a document at least partially created under control of a system user.
27. The system set forth in claim 25 further including: means for transferring said printed postage and indicia from said transfer media to a mailing envelope.
28. The system set forth in claim 26 further including means for transferring said printed postage indicia from said transfer medium to a mailing envelope.
29. An automated system for generating a personalized greeting card, said system comprising: means controlled in part by a system user for generating selected customized greeting cards; means for determining the correct postage for mailing each said selected greeting card; means for generating a personalized postage indicia for each said selected greeting card, wherein said personalized postage indicia bears a relationship to the contents of said selected greeting card; means for printing said customized greeting card; and means for printing said personalized postage indicia together with said correct postage.
30. The system of claim 29 wherein said last-mentioned means includes: means for selecting one of a plurality of graphical configurations of a postage indicia; and means for personalizing said selected graphical configuration.
31. The system of claim 29 wherein said last-mentioned means includes: means for printing said personalized postage indicia together with said correct postage on an envelope separate from said printed card.
32. The system of claim 29 wherein said last-mentioned means includes: means for printing said personalized postage indicia together with said correct postage on a label for subsequent application to a mailing envelope.
33. The system of claim 29 further including: means for automatically generating an encrypted message incorporating information entered into said system by said user, said encrypted message printed together with said printing of said correct postage.
34. The system of claim 29 wherein said means for generating a personalized postage indicia includes graphical configurations of postage indicia.
35. The system of claim 34 further including: means for allowing a system to select one of said graphical configurations for the printing of said indicia.
36. The system of claim 34 wherein said customized card generating means includes the creation of documents having particular themes; said system further including: means for automatically selecting based upon the theme of a document a particular one of said indicia.
STATEMENT UNDER ARTICLE 19
Claim 1, as amended, recites "establishing a transfer section on a portion of said document, wherein said transfer section contains a transfer medium" upon which a postage indicia is printed. None of WO 95/19016, EP 0507562 A2, EP 0282359 A2, or GB 2271452 A, indicated in the International Search Report as being of particular relevance to the invention of claim 1, teach a document having a portion thereof established as a transfer section containing a transfer medium upon which a postage indicia is printed.
Claim 11 has been amended to include substantially the same limitation as recited in claim 30, for which no art was cited as being particularly relevant. As amended, claim 11 recites "means for generating a personalized postage indicia for each said selected document, wherein said generating means includes means for selecting one of a plurality of graphical configurations of a postage indicia." None of the art of record teaches generation of a personalized postage indicia from a graphical configuration selected from a plurality of graphical configurations of postage indicia.
Claim 17, as amended, recites "generating a personalized postage indicia for said document, wherein said personalized postage indicia bears a relationship to the document." None of EP 0507562 A2 or US 5437441 A, indicated in the International Search Report as being of particular relevance to the invention of claim 17, teach generation of a personalized postage indicia bearing a relationship to the desired document. Although Applicant has not reviewed a translation of EP 0658861 A, cited as being of particular relevance to the invention of claim 17, it appears from a review of the figures that this reference also does not teach a personalized postage indicia which bears a relationship to the document as recited in claim 17.
None of the references cited in the International Search Report teach "an interface program integrating said document generating program with said postage generation program [and] means for temporarily coupling said integrated programs to a postage storage device" as recited in claim 21. Therefore, Applicant has amended claim 21 to remove the further limitation wherein the postage indicia is printed "on a transfer medium for subsequent transfer to a mailing envelope."
Claim 29, as amended, recites "generating a personalized postage indicia for said selected greeting card, wherein said personalized postage indicia bears a relationship to the contents of said selected greeting card." None of US 5437441 A or GB 2246929 A, indicated in the International Search Report as being of particular relevance to the invention of claim 29, teach generation of a personalized postage indicia bearing a relationship to the contents of a greeting card.
Applicant submits that dependent claims 2-10, 12-16, 18-20, 22-28, and 30-36 include additional novel limitations in addition to the novel limitations of claims 1, 11, 17, 21 and 29 and, therefore, also distinguish over the references of record.
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