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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2002
Surya R. Sagi, Southbury, CT (US);
William G. Hart, Jr., Sandy Hook, CT (US);
Bruce J. Barrows, Danbury, CT (US);
Surya R. Sagi, Southbury, CT (US);
William G. Hart, Jr., Sandy Hook, CT (US);
Bruce J. Barrows, Danbury, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method for monitoring the status of documents created by a large scale document production and management process. The production and management process may be comprised of a plurality of different stages including: utilizing a print stream to generate the documents, printing documents on a printer in accordance with the print stream, and forming completed mail pieces on an inserter from the printed documents in accordance with mail piece creation data files. A monitoring system receives information regarding the status of individual documents within these production and management process stages. A user may then select one of the stages for closer inspection of the status of documents. For the selected stage, status of individual documents is displayed.