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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2003
Marc Divine, Sceaux, FR;
Laurent Henault, Verrieres-le-Buisson, FR;
Neopost Industrie, Bagneux, FR;
Abstract
This invention relates to a process for automatically creating and enriching a data base in a system for sorting mail items linked, through an INTRANET communications network, to computer stations of addressees of these mail items and comprising reading means for recognizing postal data printed on these mail items, processing means in order, in relation with a work data base comprising identification data relative to the addressees of the mail items, to identify the individual addressee of a determined mail item, and sorting means for allocating this mail item to the addressee thus identified, process in which there is firstly automatically sent to the electronic mail address of each addressee, a determined electronic message requesting him to be connected on a WEB page of the sorting system in order to enter personal identification data, and, once entered, these data are then automatically stored in a temporary data base for comparison with the data present in the work data base in order thus to ensure automatic update thereof.