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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2003
Francesco Gozzo, Raleigh, NC (US);
Emmett M. Perry, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
William W. Walker, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael J. Maselli, Apex, NC (US);
James N. Sutton, Jr., Apex, NC (US);
Francesco Gozzo, Raleigh, NC (US);
Emmett M. Perry, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
William W. Walker, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael J. Maselli, Apex, NC (US);
James N. Sutton, Jr., Apex, NC (US);
Bell & Howell Mail and Messaging Technologies Company, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
The disaster recovery techniques, for presentment of a company's bills, statements or the like, provide electronic document presentment in the event of a disaster that impacts the company's print mail delivery operation or other existing mailing system(s). Files containing electronic documents are received, from a system associated with the print mail delivery operation, and the documents are stored in a database. Preferably, the systems use the company's existing data files. The files may be converted to a format compatible with one or more electronic delivery methodologies, if necessary. The disaster recovery systems present notice and/or data from the documents to the company's customers electronically, for example as e-mail (notice or message containing some or all of the document data), as a document attachment to an e-mail, via a web site, and possibly via telephone voice announcement.