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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Marc Le Carpentier, Antony, FR;
Assignee:
SMH Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379106 ; 379 93 ; 379102 ; 364464 ;
Abstract
A remote control system for a set of machines (1) for franking mail, which machines are geographically dispersed in accordance with user requirements and include franking heads whose use is monitored by a distant central organization. Each franking head is connected to a local concentrator station (4) via a data transmission link (11), and each local station is in turn connected via a telephone channel (3) to a central remote monitoring station (2) belonging the central organization. Each local station monitors the machines connected thereto and collects operating information supplied by their heads, and it interchanges data with the central station in differed time.