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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 25, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Cyrus Abumehdi, Harlow, GB;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36446402 ; 395325 ;
Abstract
A franking machine is provided with a general purpose communication port to enable the machine to communicate with other devices. The general purpose port is configurable by the control circuits of the franking machine to match the communication standard utilized by the device connected to the franking machine. Input of a command to cause the franking machine to carry out an operation causes the control circuit to configure the port to a communication standard appropriate to the selected operation.