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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:
Sep. 22, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary G Hansen, West Redding, CT (US);
David W Riley, Easton, CT (US);
David K Lee, Monroe, CT (US);
Frederick W Ryan, Jr, Oxford, CT (US);
Nathan Rosenberg, Orange, CT (US);
Anthony F Violante, Stratford, CT (US);
Ronald P Sansone, Weston, CT (US);
Assignee:
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455403 ; 455408 ; 455406 ; 455407 ; 455405 ;
Abstract
This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a cellular telephone metering systems that allows phone calls to be made as long as sufficient funds or call units reside in the phone. The apparatus of this invention also utilize encryption and employ seed numbers for the addition of funds or call units to the cellular phone.