Neopost Technologies

Ascom Hasler Mailing Systems, Inc.

Roman Kresina

George M Brookner

Lorenz Frey

A system for resource sharing for document production. Available resources are determined for performing at least one document production task. The capacity of an available resource is determined. A task is selecting to send to the resource based at least partly on its availability. An identifier is associating with a set of task data, which can include document data and insertion data. The identifier can be used to track the progress and completion of the task. The task can be sent to the resource for processing. The completed task is received from the resource.

Resource sharing for document production

A secure gateway includes a TLS server for authenticating connecting devices, a connection manager for routing requests from the TLS server to service provider adapters, and a key management system for providing key management functions, wherein when a device provides a manufacturing certificate to one or more servers of the gateway, servers identify the device as authentic by validating that the manufacturing certificate provided is signed by the same root that has signed the servers its own certificate.

Secure gateway with redundent servers

A scale can include a low capacity sensing mechanism operatively coupled to a load, wherein the low capacity sensing mechanism may detect movement of the load. A transfer mechanism can be operatively coupled to the low capacity sensing mechanism, wherein the low capacity sensing mechanism may enable the scale to weigh both relatively heavy loads and relatively light loads to a minor division resolution associated with the low capacity sensing mechanism.

High capacity and high resolution scale

An indicia authentication system includes a franking device for embedding identification and encrypted authentication data into indicia and applying the indicia to an article, and a computing device for utilizing the identification data to retrieve a key for deciphering the encrypted authentication data, where the computing device is adapted to utilize the deciphered authentication data to determine the validity of the indicia.

Remote authentication of two dimensional barcoded indicia

In a postage meter system (FIG.), a user enters information,indicative of a batch of mail pieces to be franked (). The mail pieces are franked(), and when the batch is completed, data relating to the batch are made the subject of a cryptographic engine(). The data digitally signed, or a message authentication code (MAC) is derived, all in a postal security device (PSD)(). The data are communicated(), preferably by means of public-key cryptography(). These data are then made available to the postal authority in a secure way.()

Secure data capture apparatus and method

Computer-based products such as postal security devices are manufactured as generic, nondescript units. Each has a unique identifier or embedded hardware serial number readable by data communications such as serial electrical communications. At customization time, a human-readable marking is placed on the device, along with a bar code indicative of the human-readable marking. A bar-code reader reads the bar code. The embedded hardware serial number is read. A record is made in a database indicative of the embedded hardware serial number and the bar code information. Software may then be selected based on the bar code information, and loaded into the device, typically within a cryptographically secure area within the device. At a later time the device may be retired from service and reprogrammed, in which case a new human-readable marking and bar code are affixed to the device. The embedded hardware serial number and new bar code information are read and appropriate new data records are created. The data records may further contain information regarding cryptographic keys loaded into the device and version levels of software within the device. In this way a generic device may be customized and efficiently managed.

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Oxford, CT, United States of America

Roman Kresina