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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:
Feb. 04, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stephan Guenther, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co., Birkenwerder, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36446411 ; 283 71 ; 283 74 ; 283 75 ;
Abstract
In a method for the operation of a postage meter machine jointly by a plurality of users, at least one message is allocated to each user and has at least one identifier that identifies the respective user to which the message is allocated. A control unit in the machine is supplied by a current user with information about that user's identifier when put into use. The control unit compares the information to the identifier and automatically uses the message allocated to the current user when imprinting postal matter for that user.